Posted by admin on May 15th, 2008
Brewin Dolphin is the only UK investment management firm to have its investment banking division headquarters outside London. Francesca Craggs speaks to Graeme Summers, who heads the Newcastle-based operation.
THINK investment banking and the City of London or Wall Street probably springs to mind. Not many people may know the North East can boast its very [...]
Posted by admin on March 19th, 2008
The FINANCIAL — Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER) announced on March 18 that it has hired nine best-in-class originators in Brazil to add to its already strong team in that country and as part of its global commitment to increase its footprint in high-growth economies.
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Merrill Lynch has a strong franchise in Brazil, [...]
Posted by admin on March 19th, 2008
Investors were bolstered not just by the investment-bank earnings but by the Federal Reserve’s move to cut interest rates. They responded by sending brokerages and investment banks to their best finish since 2001, lifting the Dow Jones industrials more than 420 points.
Investment banks are notorious for being tight-lipped about trading positions, tactics, and [...]
Posted by admin on March 19th, 2008
Investors were bolstered not just by the investment-bank earnings but by the Federal Reserve’s move to cut interest rates. They responded by sending brokerages and investment banks to their best finish since 2001, lifting the Dow Jones industrials more than 420 points.
Investment banks are notorious for being tight-lipped about trading positions, tactics, and [...]
Posted by admin on March 15th, 2008
The Federal Reserve’s maneuver, coordinated with central banks overseas, was its latest effort to stem the global credit crisis and severe housing woes that threaten to bury the United States in its first recession since 2001. Bernanke and his colleagues have been looking for new and imaginative ways to confront the situation.
They are [...]
Posted by admin on March 14th, 2008
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Some of you think that I and other financial reporters have been full of too much doom and gloom. If we just, like Anna in The King and I, just whistled a happy tune, there would be no recession. I don’t believe that for one minute. Nor should you. But it [...]
Posted by admin on March 14th, 2008
They are hoping to bring relief where it is sorely needed: in the market for mortgage securities. Home-loan financing has become much harder to get as nervous lenders have hunkered down.
“It is a highly significant move. The Fed is innovating in a way that is going to push liquidity directly into the mortgage [...]
Posted by admin on March 14th, 2008
The Federal Reserve’s maneuver, coordinated with central banks overseas, was its latest effort to stem the global credit crisis and severe housing woes that threaten to bury the United States in its first recession since 2001. Bernanke and his colleagues have been looking for new and imaginative ways to confront the situation.
They are [...]
Posted by admin on March 13th, 2008
They are hoping to bring relief where it is sorely needed: in the market for mortgage securities. Home-loan financing has become much harder to get as nervous lenders have hunkered down.
“It is a highly significant move. The Fed is innovating in a way that is going to push liquidity directly into the mortgage [...]
Posted by admin on March 13th, 2008
The Federal Reserve’s maneuver, coordinated with central banks overseas, was its latest effort to stem the global credit crisis and severe housing woes that threaten to bury the United States in its first recession since 2001. Bernanke and his colleagues have been looking for new and imaginative ways to confront the situation.
They are [...]