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Archive of entries posted on June 2009
Chart: New Zealand Banks Asset Quality and Public Debt
The following are two charts showing New Zealand banks’ Asset quality and the ratio of public debt as a percentage of GDP. The big 4 banks delinquent by 90 days loans is less than 0.5% of total loans. New Zealand has a very low outstanding public debt of about 20% of GDP. New Zealand Banks …
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A Review of S&P Current Country Ratings
The three big rating agencies Standard and Poors (S&P), Fitch and Moody’s have been been under fire lately for their role as one of the main enabler of the credit crisis. Many of the derivative products such as the MBS were assigned the AAA rating by these agencies when in fact the underlying mortgages for …
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Knowledge is Power: Bank Profits Getting Fat? Edition
1.Europe’s largest economy is expected to shrink by 6.2 percent in 2009 according to the Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank.Bundesbank: German economy will stagnate through 2010 2.With the panic subsiding fast, Brazil’s equity markets have staged an astonishing turnaround allowing canny investment banks to find their feet in the country again. Writer John Rumsey – Back …
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Eleven Industrials of the S&P ADR Index
The S&P; ADR Index is up 14.19% on a total return basis as of June 4,2009. Definition of the Index: “S&P; ADR Index is designed to track the S&P; 700 which is the non-U.S. component of the S&P; Global 1200. Ideal for U.S. based investors looking for international exposure, this index only includes securities that …
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