Sentences with phrase «u.s. credit crisis»

Wealth Daily editor Ian Cooper predicts that when Option ARM and Alt - A loans will begin resetting, marking the second leg of the U.S. credit crisis.

In that sense, conditions now resemble 2008: U.S. credit crisis then; Euro - zone credit crisis now.

Not exact matches

During hearings on the near collapse of the U.S. auto - industry in the aftermath of the 2008 credit crisis, the Big Three automaker CEOs appeared before a congressional committee to account for themselves.

And a spike in rates caused by worries over U.S. credit, on top of the rise in yields already in the cards, could ignite a crisis.

The U.S. subprime crisis happened when household and non-financial corporate credit was below 140 % of GDP.

Buffett lamented in 2010 that he didn't buy more corporate and municipal bonds during the credit crisis when yields made the securities «ridiculously cheap» compared with U.S. Treasuries.

Jim Flaherty on Stéphane Dion on the U.S. financial crisis: The American credit crunch did not start two weeks ago.

While no one is expecting a new peak in trading like the ones that occurred in 2009 and shortly before the financial crisis, the trading desks of the biggest U.S. banks are expected report revenue as much as 5 % higher than a year ago, say analysts at Credit Suisse.

The 1986 U.S. tax reforms, which are credited with boosting productivity and growth in the 1990s, are also viewed by some as having precipitated the U.S. savings and loan crisis.

On Monday, the Dow finished down 4.6 percent, the biggest decline in percentage terms since August 2011, when investors were fretting over Europe's debt crisis and the debt ceiling impasse in Washington that prompted a U.S. credit rating downgrade.

In the last few years we've had a housing bubble, a credit bubble, runaway government spending, soaring gas prices, a global recession, high unemployment, the risk of a U.S. debt default, a fiscal crisis in Europe, and the threat of severe inflation.

Interest rates in these countries are at least 4 % higher than in the U.S. or Europe and the credit quality of most of these countries is investment grade, plus the holdings of the larger ETFs are so widely distributed that unless one had a major financial crisis, similar to the Asian crisis in 1995 or the financial meltdown in 2008, one's investment should weather most isolated storms.

The U.S. credit downgrade and the European debt crisis have divided investors into three camps: in the first investors are selling their stocks, in the second they're hunting for safe money havens, and in the third they're holding their breath, hoping to wait out the storm.

Two of the three historical exceptions were unique events: Among the causes in 1931 were the collapse of Austrian bank Credit - Anstalt and the currency crisis that forced Britain to abandon the gold standard; in 1941 it was the U.S. entry into World War II.

Since the housing crisis that erupted a few years ago, the average credit score for consumers in the U.S. has dropped drastically.

U.S. Bank came through the financial crisis in much better shape than most banks, thanks to good management and the high average credit quality of its loan portfolio.

Until the 2007 collapse of the U.S. subprime mortgage industry and resulting credit crisis, Lehman generated a significant portion of its revenue through the issuance of mortgage - backed and asset - backed securities.

After the credit crisis, U.S. housing prices fell precipitously to 80 % of the 1990 level.

According to the Federal Reserve, the U.S. is in the middle of a credit card debt crisis.

Many respected economists warned that lower house sales, higher interest rates and the prolonged credit crisis, could push the U.S. economy into another recession.

Trump's proposed tax, regulatory and trade reforms would accelerate U.S. growth and make emerging crises easier for U.S. banks and credit markets to absorb.

James Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, talks with Bloomberg's Pimm Fox in New York about the Federal Reserve's intervention in the credit market crisis and its impact on the value of the U.S. dollar.

Even this recession, though longer and deeper than most due to the role of the housing bubble, credit crisis, and huge over-leveraging of the U.S. economy, will be temporary: as the imbalances are worked off, the economy will recover, and growth will eventually resume.

As the financial crisis tightened credit and suppressed investment in early 2009, the U.S. wind industry was bracing for a steep drop in installations from 2008's record 8,400 megawatts.

The international financial crisis that began in the U.S. subprime mortgage market in 2007, for example, is importantly linked to at least two of the innovative financial techniques discussed in this book: securitization and credit default swaps.

Dr. Mayer has been active in advising policymakers on the financial crisis, testifying six times before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, writing on the causes of the housing and credit bubbles for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, and authoring numerous op - ed articles on housing and credit markets.

The deal represents the largest single borrower retail financing transaction in the U.S. since the start of the credit crisis, according to Carroll.

Unfortunately for the big life insurer, as well as everyone else in the commercial mortgage - backed securities market, an international credit crisis spilled over into the U.S. bond markets and CMBS deals came to a screeching halt.