Sentences with phrase «collapse of the financial markets»

However, the 2008 collapse of the financial markets, along with volatile weather patterns, provided a number of serious challenges for the company.

Because of the collapse of the financial markets in the Great Recession, cities and counties have been billed increasing amounts in the last few years to keep the New York State Pension Fund healthy.

But the near - collapse of financial markets is a compelling reminder to investors and policy - makers that credit card houses are precarious structures.

«The reason for delaying construction was the collapse of financial markets and the subsequent recession,» said spokesperson Jim Graham in a statement, adding that the project has also been complicated by GGP's bankruptcy.

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His legal background proved invaluable in 1991, when the state of California and its insurance commissioner John Garamendi seized Raleigh's then - financial partner Executive Life Insurance Company after the value of the insurer's multibillion - dollar portfolio collapsed — a fate tied to its massive investments in the junk bond market of the go - go 1980s.

«History tells us, and political analysis tells us, that no government can stand aside while the financial market is being brought down by the collapse of the mortgage market,» he said.

That would prevent a default that would clog the global river of credit — much like the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 — sparking another financial markets meltdown.

It is anomalous to see financial journalists talk about the futility of market timing in the stock market but then give the impression houses should be sold to avoid an anticipated collapse in prices.

Following this result, financial markets were sent into a tailspin with futures diving overnight, the British pound collapsing, and US stocks, after finding some stability early in the day on Friday, tumbling into the close as the Dow and S&P 500 wiped out all of their gains for 2016 in one fell swoop.

Investors that thought the market was on the verge of a financial collapse may have been inspired to sell everything.

Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson has the distinction of having predicted the mortgage market crash in 2007 and the collapse of banks and financial firms in 2008.

This level approaches that witnessed in the U.S. and Britain just prior to the collapse of their respective financial systems and housing markets — a sobering thought.

Morgan successfully led the American financial community's attempt to avert a general financial collapse following the stock market panic of 1907.

He also recaps his highly profitable call on the collapse of the housing market back in 2006, and warns that the ongoing easy money - fueled five - year plus rally in global financial markets could «end very badly.»

Credit default swaps figured prominently in the financial crisis, notably in the near - collapse of American International Group, a giant insurer that sold protection to investors in home mortgages but couldn't pay out on the policies when the housing market crashed.

If the issuers of that insurance have to start paying up, many analysts fear the same sort of falling dominoes of i.o.u.'s that cascaded through the financial industry after the subprime mortgage market collapsed in the United States in 2007 and 2008.

The stock value lost by GE in the past 12 months is twice the amount that vanished when Enron Corp. collapsed in 2001 — and more than the combined market capitalization erased by the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and General Motors during the financial crisis.

At the time, the troika was credited with saving the world's financial markets from collapse and slowing the spread of the «Asian Contagion,» a wave of financial market panic that began with the rapid devaluation of Thailand's currency and spread to other parts of Asia, Russia and Latin America, soon affecting the real economy as well.

Circling back to the mall / REIT ticking time - bomb, while the Fed can keep the stock market propped up as means of preventing an immediate nuclear melt - down in U.S. pensions (all of which are substantially «maxed - out» in their mandated equities allocation), the collapse of commercial mortgage - back securities (CMBS) will have the affect of launching a nuclear sub-missile directly into the side of the U.S. financial system.

Once again, there is minimal demand for autos and housing, and that is partly because the market is still saturated with both of these credit - sensitive big - ticket items after an unprecedented credit and consumer bubble that went absolutely parabolic in the seven years prior to the collapse in the financial markets an asset values.

As the graph below shows, after the QE - driven big bounce from the 2008 collapse in the financial markets, the high yield market has largely drifted sideways since the middle of 2010.

With regard to recent performance, which has been positive but modest since the market peak last year, the main factor that has kept our returns relatively restrained despite the collapse of financials has been the simultaneous collapse of technology and consumer stocks, with cyclicals and commodities providing the greatest support to the major indices.

Cyber enemies could use a range of new battlefield tactics to try to cripple financial markets, from destroying the course of banking and trade settlement transactions to using poison pill algorithms to flood markets with bad data and fake trades in order to drive trading volatility and market collapse.

Concerns over China's economic growth rate and collapsing oil prices have roiled financial markets in the first days of 2016, so it's...

Two severe bear markets and a near - collapse of the global financial system pushed the average annual returns down to negative numbers.

When you trade binary options, it actually gives you a big advantage because it works when the market is rising in boom times and falling in times of financial collapse.

The common commitments undertaken there to engage in fiscal expansion, strengthen financial regulation, resist trade protection, and enhance the capacity of international financial institutions to respond to problems in emerging markets were effective in halting the collapse of the global economy.

The possibility that the stock market will quickly recover from its collapse, as it did earlier this decade, is perhaps the biggest uncertainty about the financial condition of the wealthy.

Now, according to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Department of Justice believes that Deutsche Bank owes American taxpayers $ 14 billion for selling toxic mortgage backed securities that helped to collapse the U.S. housing market during the financial crisis.

It has been five years since the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings, a shock point in an era that saw the takeover or shutdown of many household - name financial institutions and the meltdown of the stock and housing markets.

Emphatically, the next recession, the next equity bear market, and the accompanying collapse in low - quality covenant - lite debt will not be the result of the Fed tightening rates, but will instead be part of economic and financial dynamics that are already baked in the cake.

Yacktman said there's 3 opportune times to buy: when the whole market goes down / collapses (like the financial crisis of 2008), an industry shortfall (like 1993 with concerns of changing the healthcare industry), or an individual stock temporarily out of favor.

The market turmoil reflects the conflict between the extreme inert overvaluation of financial assets and the money sloshing around in the hands of perma - bullish traders who never experienced a market collapse.

It's not a question of IF the next financial market collapse will occur — it's a question of WHEN:

Michael Pento, President and founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies, explains how the collapse of the bond markets will wreck havoc on the global financial markets.

Thanks to unprecedented levels of uncertainty across many financial markets — particularly at the beginning of the year when China's collapsing stock prices sent shockwaves through equities markets worldwide, and then in June in the aftermath of the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union — investors piled into gold as a safety measure.

The cost of insurance against defaults by European banks reached an all - time record for that reason last Friday, and banks stopped lending to each other on the interbank market «portending an imminent collapse of the financial system.

A decade after having proclaimed the «end of history» and the arrival of a new world order of prosperity based on «democracy and the market», globalised financial capital has subjected the majority of the planet's working populations to the burden of international recession, which has spread out in leaps and bounds, from Asia: recession and deflation in the world's second economy, Japan; recession and even depression m various east Asian countries, since the first quarter of 1997; the collapse of the Russian economy six years ago and financial bankruptcy in July 1998; brutal recession in the leading economy of Latin America, Brazil; the beginning of the downturn in the economies of the OECD countries.

The collapse of UT and Capital banks in August last year shook the financial market and triggered calls for the Central Bank to take its regulatory role seriously.

The collapse or forced bail - outs of a series of large, financial institutions in 2008 threw both markets and governments into turmoil.

Trump is holding a fund - raiser in New York City next week to be hosted by a who's who of the financial world, including John A. Paulson, whose hedge fund made billions betting on the collapse of the housing market.

«The New York State Common Retirement Fund's strong gains over the last four years have mitigated some of the impact of the financial market collapse of 2008 - 2009,» DiNapoli said.

In the week that banks were collapsing the man who wants to run our economy not only said: this is not a problem caused by the financial markets but went on to say and, I quote, «that it's a function of financial markets that people make loads of money out of the misery of others.»

Also confounding the effort is the collapse of major financial institutions, such as investment bank Lehman Brothers, which had a team of brokers specifically dedicated to trading in such carbon markets, which will have an impact as it may limit the number of financial speculators in RGGI.

THE GLOBE AND MAIL - Dec 2 - IllicitEncounters.com said it has seen a huge increase in the number of financial workers signing up to have affairs after the collapse of the markets in October last year, and that «finance» continued to be one of the most represented professional areas on the site. IllicitEncounters.com has more than 380,000 members across Britain of which ~ 20,000 work in «financial services»

In his review, Turan compares the film to the classic - age comedies of Preston Sturges and Ernst Lubitsch in noting that «making an anarchic, absurdist comedy about 2008's housing market collapse and the global financial crisis that followed is as unlikely as the collapse itself.

When many people were losing fortunes during the financial crisis of 2007 - 2010, there were a shrewd handful who were able to take advantage of the housing market collapse.

When four outsiders foresee the impending collapse of the global economy long before the big banks, media and government regulators realize what's happening, they capitalize on it by shorting the booming housing market through the invention of a clever financial instrument called the credit default swap.

This is the model Oliver Stone has chosen for his latest history lesson for the masses, WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS, an explication of why the world financial markets collapsed in 2008.

This is the story of how the housing market collapsed leading the government to the massive bailout that saved some of our largest financial institutions... and how a small group of people recognized what was happening and literally bet against the U.S. economy.