Sentences with phrase «during the financial crisis as»

The Chinese government imposed a strict peg between the yuan (also known as the renminbi) and the U.S. dollar during the financial crisis as a way of helping Chinese exporters compete.

Warren addressed the secret loans that the Fed made to Wall Street during the financial crisis as follows:

The company underwent turbulent times during the financial crisis as it strayed from its stock brokerage roots and into the mortgage market right at the peak.

In the second half of their analysis, Amstad and Martin consider how the four central banks have chosen to manage the expanded balance sheets they acquired during the financial crisis as a result of unconventional monetary policy actions.

Earnings fell by less than 10 % during the financial crisis as well because people continued to need electricity to power their homes.

Not exact matches

«The apprehensions series displays spikes that coincide with well - known episodes of increased illegal immigration into the United States, such as after the financial crisis in Mexico in 1995 or during the U.S. housing boom in the early 2000s,» they write.

And while Federal Reserve Senior Loan Officer Surveys indicate some easing of loan terms for small businesses has occurred, it hasn't occurred as much as terms were tightened during and after the financial crisis, she noted.

Lincoln is in the midst of a revival, after nearly being terminated as a brand by Ford during the financial crisis.

The hedge fund famously profited during the financial crisis by investing in risky mortgage securities known as collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) while also shorting them, a maneuver highlighted in Michael Lewis's book «The Big Short.»

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 crisiAs 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 crisias 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.

The larger assembly of rich countries such as Germany and big emerging markets such as China did good work during the financial crisis.

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.

The government stopped short, however, of bailing out the company as it did with major banks during the 2007 - 09 financial crisis.

The company's emphasis on premium products in North America, such as Olay's higher - end skin creams, left it exposed when purchasing power dropped during the financial crisis.

In the book, Schweizer details what can only be described as insider trading by many members of Congress during the financial crisis.

During difficult market conditions, such as the asset - backed commercial paper crisis in the summer of 2007 and the global financial crisis of late 2008, the BAX has consistently provided customers with price transparency, liquidity and central counterparty guaranteed transactions.

If you want to screw over savers, do nothing, let deflation rule the day, and watch interest rates collapse (as they did during the financial crisis).

And while these levels remain well below what was seen during the financial crisis, there's been an abrupt move, and these banks are now regarded as significantly riskier than they were just a few weeks ago.

An example of this was seen during the financial crisis of 2008/09, whereby many financial institutions overleveraged themselves with debt, and as assets fell in value, the ratio of debt within the organizations became too high to be sustainable.

While junk bonds may not represent a systemic risk as credit derivatives did during the financial crisis, they can be one of the more effective leading economic indicators.

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.

Many central banks, especially during the most acute phases of the crisis, also employed policies known as «credit easing,» which involves purchases of private sector assets in certain credit markets that are important to the functioning of the financial system but are temporarily impaired.

Managed DC can be seen as a counter to target date funds, which proved hugely popular but stumbled during the financial crisis.

Many companies that failed started during the recent financial crisis (and continues to suffer through), and some startups highlighted the larger market negativity as a reason for their ultimate demise.

Mr. Friedman generated some controversy as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during the financial crisis, when the Fed was helping put together a rescue plan for Wall Street.

As Lehman faltered during the 2008 financial crisis, he was called upon to use his family connections to try and broker a rescue from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.

During the financial crisis, he advised the U.K. Treasury on the resolutions of several banks and building societies as well as the government's investments into RBS and the merged Lloyds / HBOS.

The young investors who are looking to enter the market would likely be cheered by investors, who have long argued that millennials should get over what some have described as an aversion to equities — a byproduct of their coming of age and starting their careers during the worst of the financial crisis — and take advantage of a long - term, buy - and - hold strategy that allows them to benefit from compound interest.

(The Fed also acquired large holdings in mortgage - backed securities during the financial crisis and it is trimming its rollover of maturing principal in those as well.)

The financial crash of the U.S. housing market during the 2008 crisis is one of the most recent and well - known black swan events as of 2017.

If and when a slump arrives, investors who have more exposure to VC and private equity firms will have a hard time extracting their money quickly, just as they did during the financial 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.

During the financial crisis, as the bottom fell out of garment maker Gildan Activewear Inc.'s share price, Glenn Chamandy made a bet of about $ 23 - million (U.S.) that the doubters were wrong about his struggling company.

By contrast, net US Treasury positions rose during the financial crisis and are now net positive, as dealers have closed short positions (ie positions that rise in value when the price of an asset falls) and accumulated securities holdings (Graph 3, left - hand panel).

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.

Former Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson alluded to the importance of the banking elite in maintaining control over public perception during the 2008 financial crisis, when he alluded multiple times to the public's perceived confidence in US stock markets as being infinitely and exponentially more important to US stock market behavior than any market fundamentals.

«During the past year, ICBC overcame the hard hit as a result of the financial crisis and realized healthy and stable development.

However, the Fed is not the root of the US monetary problem, as evidenced by the fact that there were several US financial crises / panics during the half - century prior to the establishment of the Fed.

The two banks received an exemption in 2008 as they converted bank holding companies during the financial crisis.

As surprising as the recent financial crisis [1] and recession were, the behavior of the world's industrialized economies and financial markets during the recovery [2] has been even more sAs surprising as the recent financial crisis [1] and recession were, the behavior of the world's industrialized economies and financial markets during the recovery [2] has been even more sas the recent financial crisis [1] and recession were, the behavior of the world's industrialized economies and financial markets during the recovery [2] has been even more so.

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.

In the 1850s and 1860s, following the bursting of speculative bubbles in the US and UK railroad sectors, it lent freely to institutions to prevent financial panic, as it did during the Barings crisis of the 1890s.

We also lost money in financial stocks during the crisis, but have come to a very different conclusion as to why.

Yet when the markets have not performed as well — such as during the 2000 - 2002 tech - market bust and the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis — our research shows that US large - cap active managers outperformed their passive peers by 471 basis points and 100 basis points, respectively.

During the tech - market bust and great financial crisis, US large - cap active managers outperformed their passive peers — food for thought as today's abnormally long market cycle may be drawing to a close

The Canadian economy did not decline as much as other G8 economies during the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis and our recovery, while weak, has been better than most.

He noted that the People's Bank of China operates as a mechanism of the central government, allowing it to tackle recent issues even more creatively than the U.S. Fed did under Ben Bernanke during the financial crisis.

As we saw during the global financial crisis, even the United States — considered the world's deepest, fairest, most liquid, best - regulated market — is prone to extreme price swings far exceeding any lasting changes in underlying business value.

Elders investors will receive their first dividend in nearly a decade as the rural services and pastoral company cements its turnaround from some dark days during the global financial crisis.

«Historically a lot of agricultural investments were tax driven and that did not result in very positive outcomes,» Mr Brandweiner said, possibly referring to the spate of collapsed managed investment schemes such as Timbercorp during the financial crisis.