Sentences with phrase «during a crisis at»

Nine out of the 30 persons arraigned in court were accused of killing a police sergeant identified as Steven Daniel on Wednesday during the crisis at Oyigbo.

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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.

George Fonourakis, a food and beverages manager at a hotel in Athens, told CNBC that he was forced to move back in with his parents during the height of the crisis.

«The global unemployment rate would remain broadly constant during the next five years, at half a percentage point higher than before the crisis,» the ILO said.

During the crisis thousands of firms shut and unemployment peaked at 27.9 percent, with six in 10 young job - seekers out of work.

The European Union has voiced concerns that Russia has pushed propaganda aimed at destabilizing Spain during the Catalonian independence crisis.

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.

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.

Like the great generals of World War II (Patton, MacArthur, Montgomery, De Gaulle), these CEOs return to office at a time of crisis to revive their enterprise and lead their companies to greater glory than they did during their first tour of duty.

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.

Why has Zuckerberg been selling his Facebook shares at such furious rate during this crisis while reassuring investors?

Vanguard is telling investors to expect returns in the «medium term» of 4 percent to 6 percent, the most cautious outlook it has had on future stock returns at any time during the post-financial crisis economic recovery.

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.

The new finance chief of Spain also told CNBC that the southern European economy has been growing at a solid pace of about 3 percent in the last four years, but this doesn't mean that the problems raised during the euro zone sovereign debt crisis are over.

«They were at a very impressionable age during the financial crisis,» notes Black.

Barclays has released information suggesting Diamond was given at least a tacit green light to fix rates during the heart of the financial crisis by Paul Tucker, deputy governor of the Bank of England.

Michigan's unemployment rate — while far from its highs during the financial crisis — remained above the national average at 8.4 percent in May.

The sequels of the crisis are still there: At the end of the last reserve reporting period in mid-April, distress borrowing at the Fed stood at twice the «normal» levels observed during the time preceding the onset of the 2008 crisiAt the end of the last reserve reporting period in mid-April, distress borrowing at the Fed stood at twice the «normal» levels observed during the time preceding the onset of the 2008 crisiat the Fed stood at twice the «normal» levels observed during the time preceding the onset of the 2008 crisiat twice the «normal» levels observed during the time preceding the onset of the 2008 crisis.

Wechter joined Citigroup in 2004, working in investment banking and then corporate strategy during the financial crisis before becoming chief of staff to Richard Parsons, the chairman at the time.

Average credit scores most recently bottomed out at 686, during the housing crisis when there was a sharp increase in foreclosures.

December 2009 (1967 kb PDF file): The Q&A in this issue features seven questions about political influence and the financial crisis (by Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra, and Thierry Tressel); research summaries on «Credit Conditions and Recoveries from Financial Crises» (by Prakash Kannan) and «Inflation Targeting in Emerging Economies» (by Turgut Kýþýnbay); the contents of the latest issue of IMF Staff Papers; a listing of visiting scholars at the IMF during October — December 2009; and listings of recent IMF Working Papers and Staff Position Notes

According to most of the projections I've seen, my home is expected to rise in value 5 % a year for at least the next year or two due to the severe devaluations the market saw during the financial crisis.

Globe - trotting Amanat was accused of hiding trading losses at Dubai - based Enable Invest Ltd., a fund run by his brother, during the financial crisis, according to Bloomberg.

During the financial crisis of 2008, Bair insisted that she and her agency have a seat at the table, where she worked — and fought — with Henry Paulson, then the treasury secretary, and Timothy Geithner, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, as they tried to cobble together solutions that would keep the financial system from going over a cliff.

This is because in China the gap between lending and deposit rates during this century has been much higher than in other developing countries, probably as part of the process of recapitalizing the banks after the last banking crisis at the turn of the century.

At age 25, he started construction company Inmobiliaria Carso, and he invested during the Mexican debt crisis of the 1980s, buying interests in tobacco, copper and mining.

«I don't think bitcoin is prevalent enough at the moment to be a systemic threat in the way we experienced during the financial crisis other threats; it needs watching carefully but I don't think we're there yet,» said Andrew Bailey, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, during a Thursday interview on BBC's Newsnight.

It also helped the economy in 2008 when global risk aversion was at its peak, and during both the Asian financial crisis in the mid to late 1990s and the bursting of the tech bubble in the United States a decade ago.

Bernanke had presided over the United States central bank during the 2008 - 09 international financial crisis and is currently a distinguished fellow in residence with the economic studies program at the Brookings Institution.

This reflects, at least in part, a view that their OTC derivative markets are small and, relatedly, did not pose a problem for their banks during the financial crisis.

If you recall, during one of her final speeches at the Jackson Hole symposium in August, Yellen defended the strict, broad - based financial regulations put in place after the financial crisis — Dodd - Frank included.

The signal from our Recession Warning Composite at that time was triggered by a shortfall in employment growth (alternate condition 4 below) that was subsequently revised away, so the last signal on this composite in the revised data appears during the global financial crisis.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, a 17 - year veteran of Goldman Sachs and a foreclosure king during the financial crisis who had his own issues at his Senate Confirmation hearing, has promised that the sweeping tax cuts would pay for themselves by boosting economic growth.

This is also happening at a time when institutional investors are thinking twice about allocating money to hedge funds, which didn't provide much in the way of diversification when the markets tumbled during the financial crisis yet charged famously high fees for their services.

Alan Greenspan was known as adept at gaining consensus among Fed board members on policy issues and for serving during one of the most severe economic crises of the late 20th century, the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1987.

At Wednesday's closing price, he stands to pocket nearly $ 60 - million on the investment he made during the crisis.

During the financial crisis and its immediate aftermath, Dr. Piwowar served in a one - year fixed - term position at the White House as a senior economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) in both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama Administrations.

Michael Hewson, Senior Market Analyst at CMC Markets in London, says Carney has gained a lot of «brownie points» for his handling of the financial crisis, given that Canada was the only G7 country that did not have to receive a banking bailout during the financial crisis that started in 2008.

The federal funds rate, which governs the cost of lending between banks and serves as a benchmark for the whole economy, has stood at a zero to 0.25 percent range since December 2008, during the depth of the financial crisis.

During that time, which includes the financial crisis, much has happened at Scripps, including a corporate name change and several diversifying acquisitions.

While base rates kept at or close to zero for almost seven years and three massive asset - buying programs by the Fed have undoubtedly helped stabilize the US (and world) economy during and after the recession that followed the global financial crisis, the continuation of expansionary monetary policies is now supporting a growing excess of global liquidity that has been distorting the market signals sent by stock and bond prices and thus contributing to the growing volatility seen in recent weeks.

The major exceptions were just before the financial crisis where CPI was running at 4.0 % and during the crisis where CPI dropped into negative territory.

The 10 - year swap spread in the United States, for example, has increased in 2000 by about 50 basis points, to a level higher than at the time of disruptions in markets during the LTCM crisis in 1998.

Think about it, if you start investing at the age of 55 and want to use the money 10 years later for your retirement but the market has a huge crisis during these ten years, there will be no time left to recover.

According to Fed data turned over to Bloomberg News after a multi-year court battle, two units of Deutsche Bank borrowed at least $ 2 billion in low - cost loans from the Fed's Discount Window during the crisis.

There were problems at every stage of the crisis; they were ill - prepared to prevent the fire, slow to intervene, and they put displaced citizens in danger during re-entry.»

Now, thoughtful readers will recall that beginning in 2007, spreads widened significantly, peaking during the financial crisis at the end of 2008.

In particular, it looks at how some of the most prominent changes to central banks» modus operandi have come as they sought to meet their monetary policy mandates in the exceptional circumstances seen during and after the global financial crisis of 2008.

Citigroup, however, the bank that spectacularly blew itself up with toxic derivatives and subprime debt in 2008, became a 99 - cent stock during the crisis, and received the largest taxpayer bailout in U.S. financial history despite being insolvent at the time, today holds more derivatives than 4,701 other banks combined which are backstopped by the taxpayer.

At the FDIC, Jason conducted quantitative analysis during the financial crisis of 2007 - 2008.