Archive | July, 2010

The International Monetary Fund wants more transparency in solvency tests made to banks

23 Jul

The International monetary fund (IFM) demanded transparency to the solvency tests will be published tomorrow (friday 23th) to be more transparent. Furthermore, the International Monetary Fund reported “weaknesses” in the banking system in the Eurozone, and pointed that “too many” financial entities depend in “excess” of the “liquidity and other types of governmental aid” .

 The International Monetary Fund wants more transparency in solvency tests made to banksThe International monetary fund is worried about the recovery in Europe

The International Monetary Fund also warned that growth is too weak to afford problems of debt, deficit and unemployment and advised structural reformations, fiscal consolidation and measures to strengthen the banking system.

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The Federal reserve is cheapening the recovery with low interest rates

7 Jul

low interest rates The Federal reserve  is cheapening the recovery with low interest rates

Earning money too easily has its own risks. First fed the real-state bubble, now, despite what we could think, could be cheapening the economic recovery.

When reducing the interest rates to almost 0, the Federal Reserve helped to prevent an economic collapse. However, in front of a weak recovery, many thing than the Federal Reserve is creating deflation.

The question of the million is why banks aren’t spreading credit, specially to small companies who are the motors of economy. One of the answers is that there isn’t demand of credit, but the lack of supply has his role too.

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Fear of a new meltdown is flying around in Wall Street

1 Jul

fear of economic meltdown Fear of a new meltdown is flying around in Wall Street

The deception generated by the private sector employment report of June put Wall Street under pressure. Figures move between red and green after the heavy loses from Wednesday, with the Dow Jones far of the 10000 points.

The Industrial Dow Jones began Wednesday moving to 9867 points, the S&P500 rose by 0.212% to 1043 points. However the technological Nasdaq, has better perspectives and advanced by o.45% to the 2146 points.

Doubts do not leave Wall Street. Other bad macroeconomic figure has showed the weakness of the economic recovery, and the doubts on a possible meltdown are flying around.

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