Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Atlanta, GA, United States (AHN) – Oh how the tall and mighty have fallen. Atlanta’s tallest building, Bank of America Plaza, a tower bought at the market peak, has been struggling with rising vacancy rates and a heavy debt load. A foreclosure date has been set for the storied [...]
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U.S. to sue big banks over risky mortgages
September 5th, 2011
davidguide Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is set to sue a dozen banks over risky mortgage-backed securities they sold and that lost value during the housing collapse, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. The suit [...]
Buffett invests $5 billion in Bank of America
August 26th, 2011
davidguide Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Charlotte, NC, United States (AHN) – Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway will invest $5 billion in Bank of America, the bank announced on Thursday. The fresh capital is expected to boost BofA’s finances after losses suffered by the bank over subprime mortgages. Berkshire will purchase cumulative preferred stocks that pay 6 [...]
Bank of America sells credit card unit
August 16th, 2011
davidguide Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Charlotte, NC, United States (AHN) – Bank of America agreed on Monday to sell its Canadian credit card unit to Toronto-Dominion Bank for $7.6 billion cash. The unit was acquired by former BofA Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Lewis and is one of over 20 bank assets or units sold by [...]
EU Central Bank to buy government bonds on fears of panic selling in world stock markets
August 8th, 2011
davidguide Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer Frankfurt, Germany (AHN) – The European Central Bank on Sunday decided to buy eurozone government bonds to deter a possible panic selling on Monday’s opening of stock market trading. The decision was made through a tense evening video conference of the European Union’s 17 central bank governors, who [...]
Interest rates must be raised this year, OECD warns
May 25th, 2011
davidguide OECD also said the sluggishness of the UK economy will feed through into higher unemployment The west’s leading economic thinktank warned the Bank of England on Wednesday that it would have to start raising interest rates this year to prevent inflation taking hold in the UK. In a downbeat assessment of the prospects for the [...]
MENA has highest unemployment in world
May 22nd, 2011
davidguide In the Middle East and North Africa, the youth unemployment rate at 25 percent is the highest in the world. But that statistic alone doesn’t tell the whole story. World Bank researchers are finding that the actual number of jobless people between the ages of 15 and 29 in the region could be much higher. [...]
West Begins Building Aid Pipeline to Arab Spring Economies
May 22nd, 2011
davidguide The Media Line Staff Tel Aviv, Israel (TML) – Western powers and their allies in the Middle East hope to grease the wheels of democracy and political stability as they begin to release billions of dollars in loans and other financial aid to the region’s Arab Spring economies. The economies of countries like Egypt, Tunisia [...]
Swaziland government coffers running dry
May 16th, 2011
davidguide Mbabane, Swaziland (IRIN) – Swaziland’s deepening financial crisis has already eroded public services, but those services may shut down entirely if the government fails to find money to pay its wage bill. Finance minister Majozi Sithole told a state-run radio station on 9 May that the government would struggle to pay public service salaries at [...]
Debt restructuring won’t help Greece: ECB’s Stark
May 13th, 2011
davidguide Restructuring Greece’s sovereign debt would pose potentially incalculable risks to the overall euro zone and will not solve the country’s fiscal crisis, a senior European Central Bank official said on Friday. View full post on All Stories
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