Sentences with phrase «u.s. financial meltdown»

After all, the lack of a Canadian national regulator didn't seem to be a significant obstacle in managing the financial crisis of 2008 - 9, and the presence of a national regulator wasn't enough to prevent the U.S. financial meltdown.

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With U.S. hiring expected to bounce back in June and no financial meltdown from the Brexit vote currently seen, economists in the Reuters poll now expect the Fed to tighten monetary policy in July or September.

«There's just a lack of capital and funding gap for small businesses, and it's really magnified in the U.S., where the financial meltdown of 2008 left a lot of businesses unable to access bank financing,» he says, adding social media has also been an immense help in promoting crowdfunding platforms.

All governments are petrified of the U.S. rating agencies, notwithstanding the dismal record of these rating agencies prior to the financial meltdown that led to the 2008 - 09 recession.

That post also entitles Mnuchin to Chair the Financial Stability Oversight Council, a body that frequently meets in secret to deliberate if the U.S. could be looking at another 2008 - style meltdown.

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.

One caveat: Because bond index funds own so much U.S. government debt, where there is little risk of default, these funds should hold up well in financial meltdowns.

This finally came to the attention of the U.S. government in the wake of the recent financial meltdown and recession.

After witnessing the stunning and abrupt Lehman Bros. demise and other carnage during the 2008 meltdown, I would not touch U.S. financials with the proverbial ten - foot pole.

Before the financial meltdown, many large U.S. banks like Wells Fargo and Bank of America made up large parts of dividend investors» portfolios.

The subprime market did not cause the U.S. and global financial meltdowns by itself.

Q: My husband and I have been very happy Couch Potato investors, but I'm questioning the strategy after reading the latest edition of Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown, which says massive U.S. money - printing and debt will eventually cause rampant inflation and spiking interest rates.

The U.S. effective rent is still about 7.7 percent below the peak level in the second quarter of 2008, right before the collapse of Lehman Brothers sparked a financial meltdown.