Sentences with phrase «financial crash in»

Commercial real estate investment sales topped $ 355 billion last year, a 19 percent hike over 2012 and the highest dollar volume since the financial crash in 2008, according to New York - based research firm Real...

Nintendo started as a humble playing - card company in the late 1800s, but ended up saving the video game industry from a financial crash in the early 1980s.

Since Iceland's dramatic financial crash in 2008, it has become more affordable for budget travellers to step foot on this small yet astonishingly diverse country (every cloud has a silver lining certainly springs to mind).

Ever since the financial crash in 2008, this hasn't necessarily been the case and now, in 2014, scapegoating for problems seems to be worse than it ever has been before.

«We can not risk another property - linked boom - bust cycle which has done so much damage before, notably in the financial crash in 2008.»

The rapidity with which Citigroup's share price plunged during the financial crash in 2008 is likely a key reason that Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari is pounding the table for today's Wall Street banks to hold more equity capital.

For example, so many people were too overweight stocks before the financial crash in 2009.

Not one executive of any major Wall Street firm that caused the financial crash in 2008 through fraudulent activities was prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department — which was headed at the time by law partners from Covington & Burling — the Big Tobacco law firm that was singled out in a Federal Court decision for hiding the deadly effects of cigarette smoke for decades.

Not exact matches

Investors surveying the financial headlines on the second Thursday in February could have been forgiven for adopting the crash position.

Pretty much from his first statements as governor in 2013 — that's about $ 100,000 ago in real estate appreciation terms — through to last week when the bank released its latest financial system review, Poloz has walked a tightrope between admitting that elevated house prices and debt levels pose a risk to the economy, and assuring Canadians that the likelihood of a crash is actually pretty low.

Accordingly, a number of bloggers and many in the mainstream financial press presently appear to view a U.S. - style housing crash in Canada as a near certainty.

Within a few hours, she'd been through a crash course in data analysis and the next day she was on a plane to help a bank migrate its financials from a Legacy system into Oracle.

Around $ 735 billion flowed out of emerging markets across the world in 2015, as the U.S. moved towards ending the period of ultra-loose monetary policy that it had adopted after the 2008 financial crash.

If you have your accounting data stored locally and don't have a backup system in place, you can risk loosing all of your financial information should the computer crash.

Fortune pointed to the quarterly report Tesla had filed just three days after the crash, warning that»... we face inherent risk of exposure to claims in the event our vehicles do not perform as expected resulting in personal injury or death,» and specifically calling out Autopilot as a technology that could result in such claims and materially affect financial performance.

He enacted Social Security in 1935 to give financial assistance to the elderly, unemployed and disadvantaged, and formed the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 1934 to regulate the stock market and instill confidence in investors after the crash of 1929.

Editor's note: The below is a fictional letter by an imagined banker on how the foreign exchange market looks from London's financial district at the end of a week when the pound slumped to a 31 - year low against the dollar, rounded off by a humiliating «flash crash» of 6 % in overnight trading on Friday.

Royal Bank of Scotland posted its first annual profit in a decade on Friday, continuing its recovery following the financial crash of 2008.

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.

And way over in Ireland, which has been devastated by the financial crash and subsequent austerity, an organization called Debtoptions is taking the fight to the banks by suing them.

Fraudulent investment schemes come and go in waves, he adds, and in the wake of the 2008 global financial crash, many people seem ready to try alternative paths to financial independence.

While Carney's move to drastically cut interest rates in Canada at the beginning of the financial crisis was prophetic, Philip Aldrick of the Telegraph likens the situation to Canada being an innocent bystander to a horrendous car crash with the U.K. economy at the wheel: the enormity and complexity of the economic problems Carney will face are on a whole different level.

It is not an easy or smooth transition, and financial markets around the world have been disturbed, most recently when China's stock exchange boomed and then crashed, and indexes like the Dow Jones seesawed by thousands of points in a matter of days.

Hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones, who called the October 1987 crash, believes markets are in a dangerous financial bubble thanks to Federal Reserve's «obsession» with inflation targeting.

The index dropped more or less steadily until the worst moments of the financial crisis in fall 2008, causing the full - on crash, and it began to turn around only in March 2009.

«Those are things Canadians seem to really value in companies,» he says, noting that consumers may be placing a premium on these two factors since the financial crash of 2008.

Apart from their direct financial impact, flash crashes are a serious problem because they pose a threat to public trust in markets.

Mexico's economy was flourishing in 2008 when it came crashing down as a result of the financial crisis.

The tangled nature of financial markets results in this paper only being able to make a strong, supported argument of mini flash crashes playing a contributory role.

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.

In all three examples when the VIX went below 10, markets were more than five years into recoveries from major plunges: The 1987 crash, the dot - com implosion in 2000 and the financial crisis in 2008 - 0In all three examples when the VIX went below 10, markets were more than five years into recoveries from major plunges: The 1987 crash, the dot - com implosion in 2000 and the financial crisis in 2008 - 0in 2000 and the financial crisis in 2008 - 0in 2008 - 09.

A good example of a negative spike in the financial markets is the infamous stock market crash of Oct. 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) plunged 22 % in a single day.

It was only a few years later, while I was reading Charles Kindleberger's A Financial History of Western Europe that I learned that the 1873 crisis actually «began» with a stock market crash in Vienna in May, four months before the New York markets fell, which spread to Germany, England and other countries, and the subsequent depression was perhaps the first «global» panic and depression in history.

It could, for example, help found a new paradigm of finance that allows citizens more control of private funds, which we desperately need in the wake of the 2008 financial crash.

Mnuchin, at least, was not at Goldman Sachs in the leadup to the greatest financial crash since the Great Depression.

That mega bank started as a financial supermarket that Rubin helped to make possible behind the scenes in the Bill Clinton administration, followed by a giant crash and the largest bank bailout in U.S. history from 2007 to 2010.

In addition to being a store of value, precious metals are insurance against a number of potentially disastrous scenarios: financial crashes, civil wars, political unrests, and other crises.

You are spot - on in pointing out that gold prices dropped in the midst of the 2008 financial crash.

Except under conditions where the national currency is radically devalued (for example in a financial crash and depression), it seems unlikely that such a currency could aspire to the kind of scale where it became a viable alternative.

Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Fed before, during and after the financial crash of 2008 deservedly doesn't fare well in Prins» book.

Just as real estate lending fuels land speculation, so the withdrawal of such credit leaves property markets to decline, sometimes with a crash, as occurred in Japan after 1990 when its financial bubble burst.

The tech crash was characterised by «new era valuation methodologies», while the Global Financial Crisis saw exponential growth in «dis - intermediated opaque structured products».

Having learned lessons from the actions taken by the Federal Reserve in 1929, Mr. Greenspan took steps to keep liquidity in the system to prevent this crash from spreading beyond the financial markets.

Earlier this month, consumer research group, Valuepenguin, published a report claiming that the number of consumer complaints involving cryptocurrency company filed with the U.S Consumer Financial Protection Bureau increase by 669 percent following the post-December 2017 crash in the cryptocurrency markets.

Since 2012, the Federal Reserve has been engaged in a pre-emptive war against financial risk... pre-emptive central banking refers to monetary action in anticipation of future financial stress to avert a market crash before it starts....

Widespread financial shenanigans during the run - up in house prices in the early 2000s — like subprime lending and dodgy approvals — resulted in a very painful housing crash and recession.

Authored by Meraj Allahrakha, Paul Glasserman, and H. Peyton Young, the report reconfirms to Americans that nothing significant has been accomplished in the last six years to prevent casino capitalism on Wall Street from crashing our financial system and the U.S. economy again.

The inflation scenario results in a financial impact of around two - thirds of the market crash scenario.

In contrast, the stock - market crash in October 1987 and the Asian financial crisis were «endogenous» events, erupting from within specific markets, he sayIn contrast, the stock - market crash in October 1987 and the Asian financial crisis were «endogenous» events, erupting from within specific markets, he sayin October 1987 and the Asian financial crisis were «endogenous» events, erupting from within specific markets, he says.

«During the 2008 Leman Brothers crash, or as we call it in the South Pacific, the GFC (Great Financial Crisis) enormous amounts of cash were withdrawn from banks and we all remember recently the lines of frustrated withdrawal customers outside Cyprus banks.»