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Around the same time, a number of defined - benefit plans sponsored by troubled companies, including Nortel Networks, GM Canada and DaimlerChrysler, began to falter in the wake of the 2008 stock - market market meltdown and had to be restructured.

What's the total amount of funding you had in place before the backlash erupted and did any investors walk away in the wake of the media meltdown?

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.

Since the start of the bull market, valuations have been held down by fears of a double dip in the US, a hard landing in China, and a meltdown in Europe.

And if you need more convincing of the importance and impact of a response, consider the epic social media meltdown of Amy's Baking Company, which occurred after the equally epic meltdown on the season finale of Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmare in 2013.

In the current challenging economic environment, a company's worst - case scenarios might include the bankruptcy of its biggest and once - best customer, a banker's decision to close down its corporate credit line, the postponement or cancellation of an impending initial public offering, or the meltdown of a company's value.

Among the financial commentariat, there's quite a bit of worry that the most important post-crisis regulations will be whittled away in the coming years, setting us up for another meltdown.

Those pundits who have spent the past 10 years predicting the end of the industry should remember the last time it was in meltdown: 1982.

But the downturn in the 1980s was caused by the sudden and massive increase in interest rates by the Paul Volcker - led Federal Reserve, not a meltdown of the global financial system.

Under pressure to resign as leader of a country ravaged by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, Naoto Kan's last act in August 2011 was to transform Japan's energy policy.

«Especially in the wake of the financial meltdown, readers will hunger for Burton G. Malkiel's reassuring, authoritative, gimmick - free, and perennially best - selling guide to investing.

Had Social Security started investing in stocks in the early 1980s or late 1990s, she argues, the trust fund would be significantly more flush than it is now, even taking into account the bursting of the tech bubble in 2000 and the meltdown in 2008.

One of the benefits of the dot - com meltdown was TV advertising was pretty cheap because all those startups that were advertising in the late»90s were gone.

Global stocks are in meltdown mode, the pound is getting clobbered, and analysts are getting antsy about the possibility of a serious economic downturn in the UK and elsewhere.

LAS VEGAS — Last week, Google revealed «Meltdown» and «Spectre,» a pair of big security holes in pretty much every processor.

After all, the lack of a Canadian national regulator didn't seem to be a significant obstacle in managing the financial crisis of 2008 - 9, and the presence of a national regulator wasn't enough to prevent the U.S. financial meltdown.

It came after the country's financial meltdown, which put bankers in jail and prompted a $ 4.6 billion bailout, and on the cusp of political events that would add to the populist spirit that fueled the party's meteoric rise.

In the aftermath of the U.S. meltdown, the ranks of renters swelled, which caused rents to escalate.

Although Meltdown and Spectre affected leading processors in many devices, Intel is bearing most of the fallout.

Then in 2008, we hit the wall of the financial meltdown.

In fact, CalPERS, which has nearly $ 295 billion under management, is one of those funds that has already cut its target since the financial meltdown of 2008.

That approach saw CWB turn down the opportunity to invest in asset - backed commercial paper offered by the likes of Lehman Bros. and Merrill Lynch, thus sparing it from the 2007 meltdown that caused huge writedowns at its larger peers.

Bubbles from the past include the Dutch tulip bulb crash of 1637 and the dot.com tech stock meltdown in 2000 when millions of dollars was invested in new internet companies, many of which later collapsed.

Sheryl King with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Toronto, for example, says the structure of Canada's mortgage market and strict lending standards greatly reduce the possibility of a U.S. - style meltdown.

Noting that Goldman got the Wired team in front of more than 50 money managers during the road show, she adds, «After a meltdown in the Internet stock market, that doesn't happen without a lot of calls and cajoling.»

And $ 2.4 billion is a drop in the bucket for B of A, which has paid out $ 29 billion in meltdown - related settlements since 2009.

Jobs» advice came in handy again as Parker built his company's portfolio during the economic downturn and during the career meltdown of Nike spokesman Tiger Woods.

Dodd - Frank, which Frank crafted alongside Sen. Christopher Dodd, D - Conn., boosted government oversight of banks in a bid to reduce risk and prevent another financial meltdown like the one in 2008.

According to Fidelity, one of the largest administrators of retirement plans in America with ~ 7 million accounts, the average IRA balance — including both traditional IRAs and Roth IRAs — stood at $ 81,100 at the end of 2012, up 53 % from 2008 when balances hit their lowest point since the market meltdown.

Its chief U.S. competitor, AMD, which has been gaining ground on Intel, said in a blog post that its chips are not vulnerable to Meltdown and there is a «near zero risk» from one variant of Spectre and zero risk from another.

BBC Does It Again: «In The Absence Of A Credible Plan We Will Have A Global Financial Meltdown In Two To Three Weeks» - IMF Advisor

In the ensuing meltdown, consumers face piles of bills, stagnant or falling incomes, and shrinking nest eggs.

Any financial geek will be proud to own these key items such as golf club covers with the Enron logo stamped on them in remembrance of one of the biggest corporate meltdowns in recent history.

The Chinese government so far has stepped in to stop big meltdowns of wealth management products, to avert ripple effects and forestall investor anger.

«There's just a lack of capital and funding gap for small businesses, and it's really magnified in the U.S., where the financial meltdown of 2008 left a lot of businesses unable to access bank financing,» he says, adding social media has also been an immense help in promoting crowdfunding platforms.

Eric Schiffer, head of the Patriarch Organization, a Los Angeles - based private equity firm, called it «the single greatest CEO meltdown in American car history.»

Figuring out ways to regulate trading by sophisticated investors in derivatives, which go by exotic names such as «currency forwards» and «credit default swaps,» is a hot topic in international policy circles, largely because failures on this murky side of the market are blamed for the 2008 global credit meltdown and the recession that followed.

The massive and multifaceted policy responses to the financial crisis and Great Recession — ranging from traditional fiscal stimulus to tools that policymakers invented on the fly — dramatically reduced the severity and length of the meltdown that began in 2008; its effects on jobs, unemployment, and budget deficits; and its lasting impact on today's economy.

Delta's tech meltdown is the latest in a string of industry IT failures.

In the 1990s he fought efforts to regulate derivatives — that once - opaque corner of the financial market where mortgage - backed securities and credit default swaps, at the centre of the financial meltdown of 2008, were flourishing.

The absence of proper consumer protection was a major contributing factor to the present financial meltdown, for «it has now become clear that abrogating sound state laws, particularly regarding consumer protection, created opportunity for regulatory arbitrage that resulted in a regulatory «race - to - the - bottom.

There are differences in the Canadian and U.S. housing markets, differences that can generate sharply contrasting points of view on whether Canada will experience a housing meltdown comparable to the one in the U.S.

Subsequent to the subprime meltdown in 2008, the activities of the shadow banking system came under increasing scrutiny and regulations.

However, aggressive monetary and fiscal policy actions both domestically and abroad were successful in preventing a complete meltdown of the U.S. and the world economy.

Mr. Tilson has co-authored two books, The Art of Value Investing: How the World's Best Investors Beat the Market (2013) and More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times (2009), was one of the authors of Poor Charlie's Almanack (2005), the definitive book on Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, and has written for Forbes, the Financial Times, Kiplinger's, the Motley Fool andTheStreet.com.

The once - powerful institution — in 2007 it was the fifth largest U.S. bank, with $ 400 billion in assets — was among the earliest warning signs of a broad economic meltdown that would ultimately result in the stock market losing nearly half its value.

Aceto shares tumbled to $ 2.74 a little before noon, a drop of $ 4.66 or 62.9 percent in what amounted to a meltdown in stock price.

Instead of using it to reduce the federal public debt, the government used it to cut the GST by two percentage points, thereby creating a structural deficit in advance of the financial meltdown in 2008.

But in 1986, on the brink of economic meltdown, the government launched a series of sweeping economic reforms they called «doi moi».

«If you don't have the right protections in place, everything you've worked for could vanish in a stock market meltdown,» said Sanford Mann, CEO of The Hartford Gold Group.