All Posts Tagged With: "HSBC"
How to Turn Sovereign Wealth Into Personal Wealth
We all know the U.S. government is in debt up to its eyeballs. Moody’s is already threatening to downgrade the country’s debt rating due to unfunded liabilities for Medicare and Social Security.
HSBC Chief Calls for Tougher Inflation Fight, Industry Changes
The chief executive officer of HSBC Holdings PLC (ADR: HBC), Europe’s biggest lender, today (Tuesday) called on the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks to make fighting inflation a priority.
Three Shocking Examples of the Financial Plight We’re In
With the London Stock Exchange closed and the Office for National Statistics shut, yesterday’s rainy Bank holiday Monday provided the perfect chance for us to look back at three stories that astounded us last week – but which somehow escaped without comment at the time.
Private Banking: The Myth and the Reality
There is apparently a “great private banking myth” out there.
The ‘Wall of Costs’ Awaiting Consumers
The internet is playing wrecker ball to the once robust walls of the publishing business. A subject we’ve commented on before as newspaper subscriptions slide relentlessly taking circulation and advertising revenues with them.
Another Day, Another Pounding by the Boys
This one started in the Far East early in their trading day yesterday and ended at 4:00 p.m. New York time. Silver didn’t fare much better, but it did try to rally a couple of times during New York trading hours on the Globex…but the boys were having none of that.
The Mortgage Famine Deflator
Crisis, what crisis? An upbeat David Frost, director-general of the British Chamber of Commerce, reminds us there is commercial life beyond the hysterics of Canary Wharf trading screens.
Resource Stock Roundup Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Canada’s big board started the week off by inching forward, while the junior bourse once again failed to follow during Monday trading on the Canadian markets.
Oil $114: Good News for Brazil
Wading through more tales of woe from the high street… JJB Sports saw profits fall 28%; it’s closing 72 stores and laying off 800… The nation’s indebted…1m have an average £25k in unsecured debt…we find some good news today in the unemployment numbers.
IMF Warns of Global Economic Slowdown
Global growth will slow to 3.7% in 2008, the International Monetary Fund announced yesterday (Wednesday), in its most recent World Economic Outlook. There is also a 25% chance of a global recession should economic growth fall below 3% in 2008 or 2009.
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