Easy liquidity supply likely to continue
Liquidity concerns have diminished from earlier this month, with bank treasurers revising their outlook, adding some optimism about liquidity conditions in the medium term. Less than a fortnight ago, treasurers dismissed a sudden improvement in liquidity as a brief interlude before tightness re-emerges.
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Fitch: Liquidity Improves for Largest U.S. Speculative-Grade Issuers
CHICAGO—-Fitch Ratings has published the latest issue of ‘Liquidity and Covenant Analysis for Large U.S. Speculative-Grade Issuers’. In the report, Fitch concludes that near-term liquidity remains ample for many of the 31 largest speculative-grade issuers of high yield bonds and leveraged loans.
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Fitch: Liquidity Improves for Largest U.S. Speculative-Grade Issuers
CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fitch Ratings has published the latest issue of ‘Liquidity and Covenant Analysis for Large U.S. Speculative-Grade Issuers’. In the report, Fitch concludes that near-term liquidity remains ample for many of the 31 largest speculative-grade issuers of high yield bonds and leveraged loans. Of the issuers studied, 77% have more than a combined $ 1 billion in cash and …
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High-Frequency Traders RGM, Quantlab Oppose Getco’s Market-Maker Proposal
Four high-frequency trading firms told the Securities and Exchange Commission that tougher obligations for market makers would raise costs for investors such as mutual funds without preventing market crashes.
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Bankrupt, USA: Cities aren’t too big to fail
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has dodged a debt bullet. The only problem is that the gun is still loaded.
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Europe Proposes Rules to Help Steady Markets
The European Commission proposed clamping down on certain kinds of trading that governments have blamed for destabilizing the economy and endangering the euro.
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Bankrupt, USA: Why our cities aren’t too big to fail
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has dodged a debt bullet. The only problem is that the gun is still loaded.
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Japan intervenes in currency market to weaken yen
Japan waded into the currency market Wednesday for the first time in six years, buying dollars to weaken the surging yen, which is battering famed Japanese manufacturers like Toyota and Sony after spiking to 15-year highs.
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Most of Largest U.S. Banks Already Meet Basel Capital Standards, Bove Says
Sixty-one of the 62 U.S. banks with more than $ 10 billion in assets meet the capital and liquidity ratios set forth by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, said Richard Bove , an analyst at Rochdale Securities.
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Stimulus package report card: ‘F’
Just about a year ago Congress pushed through a $ 787 billion “Economic Stimulus Package” which was touted to create jobs, rebuild American infrastructure and provide badly needed liquidity to small businesses.
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