Sentences with phrase «at the financial crisis»

* MADRID - Bank of Spain's Luis M. Linde to appear at financial crisis investigation committee in Parliament - 0700 GMT.

P.S., for a fun look at the financial crisis (if that's conceivable), be sure to read Marc Roberts» latest Throbgoblins blogtoon.

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Home prices aren't normally something that would be at the top of an economist's list when looking at a country's overall monetary health, but it was an indicator that was completely hammered during the 2008 - 09 financial crisis.

By 2009, the NEB pegged the break - even price for new oilsands projects at a U.S. $ 55 - 70 / bbl WTI price, and the expected quantity had been scaled back largely due to the financial crisis, to less than 3 million barrels per day by 2015.

«In the financial industry, there's been a lot of debate, post — financial crisis, around different approaches to risk and gender difference,» says Brenda Trenowden, global head of funds at ANZ Banking Group in London and a member of the steering committee of the 30 % Club, which works to get more women on corporate boards.

In 2011, Handy hit the headlines: Her strategies beat the returns of the endowments at Harvard and Yale universities after her gutsy bet against U.S. stocks prior to the financial crisis.

At various points in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy, or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating or steadily declining incomes for years or even decades.

On a macro level, I left right at the beginning of the cataclysmic financial crisis, and Starbucks had a very difficult time navigating through that.

She weathered the financial crisis at some of the financial industry's most visible institutions.

Goldman Sachs, the New York - based investment bank, put the odds of a Canadian financial crisis in the near future at 30 per cent.

This approach to monetary policy was under assault after the financial crisis, as experts noted the central banks had deluded themselves into thinking that their job had become as simple as keeping inflation at 2 %.

Jean - Claude Trichet said: «We are now at a level which is higher than immediately before the financial crisis.»

In 2009, for example, he bashed «fat cat» Wall Street bankers for accepting big pay packages in the aftermath of the 2007 - 2009 financial crisis at a time when many Americans were suffering hardship.

Interest rates have remained at unprecedented lows since the financial crisis in 2008, providing more incentive for Canadians to jump into the housing market.

At the nadir of the financial crisis in early 2009, Scotiabank CEO Rick Waugh again warned that foreign competitors (freshly bailed out by their respective governments) could wreak havoc on Canada's Big Six.

Looking at the forward earnings yield for S&P 500 stocks, BAML finds dispersion is the highest since 2009, when the market was just starting to recover from the financial crisis.

«I think of these as high - tech Beanie Babies or 21st - century tulips,» says Robert Hockett, a law professor at Cornell who gained notoriety after the financial crisis for proposing that cities use «eminent domain» to buy out underwater mortgages.

Much of this coverage focuses too much on the political rhetoric at the expense of the people who actually perform the work of financial regulation; the ones who will be the best and last line of defense against another financial crisis.

Securitization has generally worked as advertised, although mortgage - backed securities and related derivatives were at the heart of the financial crisis almost a decade ago.

Program - driven online trading platforms such as U.S - based Quantopian and QuantConnect and British - based Cloud9trader, which have clients across the world, did not exist at the height of the financial crisis of 2008.

And at some point in late 2008, after the financial crisis had hit, one investor told us, «Listen, the stock market is cratering.

«Clearly, the C.F.T.C. has taken a strong stance against Wall Street after the financial crisis, but in a broader context we do worry that the revolving door can make enforcement officials more sympathetic to the companies they oversee,» said Michael Smallberg, an investigator at Project on Government Oversight, a nonprofit group.

The terms and prices of variable annuities were much better before the financial crisis, but the rationale for a contract that guarantees an income stream while allowing for some participation in potential growth in the investment markets remains intact, according to Mark Cortazzo, senior partner at Macro Consulting Group.

The 2008 financial crisis upended that trend, though Ms. Abrams said the area continued to attract luxury retailers, at «more realistic» rents.

At the time, TD was among the Top 10 banks in the structured - products market, a business built on arcane financial instruments that shift risk between balance sheets and was ultimately a compounding factor of the financial crisis.

Whereas the rest of the world treated financial crises as one - off catastrophes, Argentines looked at them like seasonal floods and prepared accordingly.

The dual role of chairman and CEO at financial institutions has been under scrutiny since the financial crisis.

But over a career at the highest levels in corporate finance, Porat has been equally unflappable, navigating physical obstacles and fighting great metaphorical discomfort — the race - the - clock stress of the financial crisis, the tension of negotiations among big - ego executives, and now the culture clash of imposing financial discipline at tech's biggest idea factory.

years ago, but the financial crisis hit, and a deal didn't work for either of us at that time.

GIC, one of the first sovereign funds to invest in Western banks during the global financial crisis, retains the other major investment made at the time, a stake in Citigroup which is profitable at current prices.

«But I think the financial crisis did something for the way this generation looked at the world.

Either way, somehow eight years after the financial crisis, with the economy on the best footing it has been in years, the uncertainty that is out there over a Trump Presidency just doesn't seem so bad, at least for one day.

«Historians will look at the president's handling of the financial crisis, and he will get stellar marks,» says Jim Kessler, senior vice president for policy and co-founder of Third Way, a think tank.

As for who will succeed Carney, there are many good reasons for thinking that Tiff Macklem, the senior deputy governor, is a prohibitive favourite: he established a strong reputation as he rose through the ranks at the Bank, and he played a crucial role during his short stint at the the Department of Finance during the financial crisis.

That would be the biggest one - day slump in stock market history, by more than double, besting the 777 point plunge that happened on October 29, 2008, at the high of the panic surrounding the financial crisis.

Recently, Thomas Oberlechner, a founding partner and chief science officer at AltX, gave the example of how human - computer collaboration can enable investment decisions that are more closely aligned with people's decision style, investment preference, risk tolerance, crisis vulnerability, financial values, etc..

In 2008, at the start of the financial crisis, Freddie Mac, along with its sister company Fannie Mae, was on the hook for piles and piles of unwise mortgage loans, and had to be bailed out by the government.

Perhaps the kerfuffle at University of South China is emblematic of the reason why postsecondary education in the United States — despite all its administrative shortcomings and financial crises and political mayhem — has yet to lose its spark.

During the 2008 - 09 slide, it was the other way around; then, as soon as the global financial crisis was contained and energy traders could see the level at which global demand would bottom out, the price trend reversed itself.

And it remains one of the few countries to raise rates at all since the financial crisis.

Small businesses have always been key to the country's economic success, but they still aren't being created at the levels seen before the financial crisis.

The often blunt CEO of JPMorgan Chase rose up the ranks of Wall Street and, after being ousted from Citigroup by former CEO Sandy Weill, later went on to the top job at JPMorgan and is credited with leading the bank through the financial crisis relatively unscathed compared to other banks.

At the same time, Burry, who made a fortune in last decade's financial crisis by betting that the housing bubble would burst, is also gaining a following north of Hollywood, as a Silicon Valley tech investor.

China's economy grew at its slowest pace since the global financial crisis in the third quarter, reviving expectations of further stimulus to avert a stalling of the world's growth engine.

Youth in Canada were hit much harder by the financial crisis, with youth unemployment peaking at 16.4 %, compared to 12 % in Australia.

VW's wrongdoing has more in common with the arcane algorithms and opaque schemes at the heart of the Wall Street's financial crisis than with the dangers of faulty gas pedals, ignition switches or airbags of previous recalls.

Bank of America had agreed to buy the floundering bank in 2008 at the peak of the financial crisis.

A study from the University of Cambridge and Stanford holds that well - informed insiders at major U.S. banks bolstered profits thanks to advanced knowledge of government programs during the financial crisis.

At this point, it's not likely a question of «if», or even «when», the next financial crisis will hit.

Since the 2008 debut race, the event has generated S$ 150 million in tourism receipts every year on average, except for 2009 at the height of the global financial crisis.