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help senior executives weather this economic storm, the Economist Intelligence Unit has updated its
answers to some of the questions most frequently asked by clients, following the publication of the
four previous editions of Global crisis monitor. In answering each question, we outline our current
forecast, explain our thinking, and highlight any key risks or alternative scenarios.
MTBiz is for you if you are looking for contemporary information on business, economy and especially on banking industry of Bangladesh. You would also find periodical information on Global Economy and Commodity Markets.
Charting the Financial Crisis: A Narrative eBookShavondaBrandon
The global financial crisis of 2007-2009 and subsequent Great Recession constituted the worst shocks to the United States economy in generations. Books have been and will be written about the housing bubble and bust, the financial panic that followed, the economic devastation that resulted, and the steps that various arms of the U.S. and foreign governments took to prevent the Great Depression 2.0. But the story can also be told graphically, as these charts aim to do.
What comes quickly into focus is that as the crisis intensified, so did the government’s response. Although the seeds of the harrowing events of 2007-2009 were sown over decades, and the U.S. government was initially slow to act, the combined efforts of the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, and other agencies were ultimately forceful, flexible, and effective. Federal regulators greatly expanded their crisis management toolkit as the damage unfolded, moving from traditional and domestic measures to actions that were innovative and sometimes even international in reach. As panic spread, so too did their efforts broaden to quell it. In the end, the government was able to stabilize the system, re-start key financial markets, and limit the extent of the harm to the economy.
No collection of charts, even as extensive as this, can convey all the complexities and details of the crisis and the government’s interventions. But these figures capture the essential features of one of the worst episodes in American economic history and the ultimately successful, even if politically unpopular, government response.
"Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome" – Veripath Farmland Funds Q4 Investor Letter: Investing in a World of Financial Repression, Negative Real Rates, Valuation “Challenges” and Inflationary Forces.
Do G7 governments have an incentive to attempt to keep inflation higher for longer and real rates lower for longer? Negative real rates across a broad spectrum of credit assets are a graphic sign that we inhabit a world of financial repression orchestrated by central banks at the formal/informal behest of sovereign borrowers. In a normally functioning market, lenders do not provide capital to borrowers for negative yields – i.e., they do not pay for the privilege of lending. It goes without saying we are not in a normally functioning market.
MTBiz is for you if you are looking for contemporary information on business, economy and especially on banking industry of Bangladesh. You would also find periodical information on Global Economy and Commodity Markets.
Charting the Financial Crisis: A Narrative eBookShavondaBrandon
The global financial crisis of 2007-2009 and subsequent Great Recession constituted the worst shocks to the United States economy in generations. Books have been and will be written about the housing bubble and bust, the financial panic that followed, the economic devastation that resulted, and the steps that various arms of the U.S. and foreign governments took to prevent the Great Depression 2.0. But the story can also be told graphically, as these charts aim to do.
What comes quickly into focus is that as the crisis intensified, so did the government’s response. Although the seeds of the harrowing events of 2007-2009 were sown over decades, and the U.S. government was initially slow to act, the combined efforts of the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, and other agencies were ultimately forceful, flexible, and effective. Federal regulators greatly expanded their crisis management toolkit as the damage unfolded, moving from traditional and domestic measures to actions that were innovative and sometimes even international in reach. As panic spread, so too did their efforts broaden to quell it. In the end, the government was able to stabilize the system, re-start key financial markets, and limit the extent of the harm to the economy.
No collection of charts, even as extensive as this, can convey all the complexities and details of the crisis and the government’s interventions. But these figures capture the essential features of one of the worst episodes in American economic history and the ultimately successful, even if politically unpopular, government response.
"Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome" – Veripath Farmland Funds Q4 Investor Letter: Investing in a World of Financial Repression, Negative Real Rates, Valuation “Challenges” and Inflationary Forces.
Do G7 governments have an incentive to attempt to keep inflation higher for longer and real rates lower for longer? Negative real rates across a broad spectrum of credit assets are a graphic sign that we inhabit a world of financial repression orchestrated by central banks at the formal/informal behest of sovereign borrowers. In a normally functioning market, lenders do not provide capital to borrowers for negative yields – i.e., they do not pay for the privilege of lending. It goes without saying we are not in a normally functioning market.
Overview about The financial Crisis in 2008. The presentation with 4 main points: reasons, development (also including responses), and consequences.
We hope that this is an easy source of information for you to understand this crisis.
Western governments are hopelessly addicted to deficit financing while refusing to address looming funding issues - with apologies to the embarrassingly foolish Angela Merkel, politicians can no more successfully “battle” the markets than you and I can successfully “battle” gravity. Petrocapita is an investment trust built around the premise that demand for energy will continue to move prices higher over the long-term. Petrocapita was created to allow investors to add professionally managed oil & gas assets directly to their portfolios.
In a speech following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and in the midst of the accompanying U.S. recession, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan made a declaration that turned the world of the investment bankers upside down. Greenspan declared that the FOMC (Federal Open Markets Committee) stood prepared to maintain a highly accommodative policy stance for as long as needed to promote satisfactory economic performance. Translated from central banker speak, what Greenspan meant is that he is willing to inflate the money supply and hence lower interest rates for as long as necessary to “revive” the economy and repair it from the shock it received on that fateful day. What this meant for investors in the U.S. Treasury bond market is that they were not going to make any money on U.S. treasury securities for a very long time. Smart investors, diverted from the bond market, scanned Wall Street for a similar low-risk, high-return investment that could take the place of U.S. Treasury securities, and they fell in love with residential mortgages. On September 18, 2008, after months of economic anxiety and several massive bailouts of distressed firms by the government, the stock market had its largest single-day drop since September 11, 2001. Officials and commentators declared an economic emergency and moved on two fronts. The Department of the Treasury and Federal Reserve Board ("Fed") dusted off a 1932 statute and invoked the Fed's authority to stabilize failing firms by lending them money, although some were allowed to fail.
Mercer Capital's Bank Watch | April 2020 | Ernest Hemingway, Albert Camus, an...Mercer Capital
Brought to you by the Financial Institutions Team of Mercer Capital, this monthly newsletter is focused on bank activity in five U.S. regions. Bank Watch highlights various banking metrics, including public market indicators, M&A market indicators, and key indices of the top financial institutions, providing insight into financial institution valuation issues.
2009 03 Eco Car Policy In Thailand Impact On The Global Car Market Frost &a...Alvin Chua
Thailand has an ambition of reaching the 2 million mark in production by 2012. They are always in search of products that are emerging and have tremendous export potential. With pick-up trucks they crossed the 1 million mark and became the second biggest pick-up truck manufacturer in the world. Discover how your markets would be impacted by Thailand\'s Eco car policies and what opportunities are offered by this policy.
Frost & Sullivan Program Leader, Victoria Ng, addresses the following questions in this presentation:
* What is the progress of the Eco Car Policy in Thailand?
* Who is participating and who is not but competing in the same segment?
* What is the impact of Eco Car Policy in Thailand on ASEAN, EU and U.S.?
2009 04 Automotive Market Outlook Frost & SullivanAlvin Chua
A grim market condition awaits automakers, burdened with a huge pile-up of inventory, due to weak demand and have had to cutback significantly on vehicle production plans and profitability targets for 2009 since the advent of the economic slowdown. The uncertainty surrounding economic recovery and the continued lack of sufficient credit in the market is hurting sales and consumer confidence, which are key requirements for re-bound in positive sales.
This presentation provides Frost & Sullivan\'s perspective on how growth is expected to unfold in the next two years and what the opportunities under current market conditions are.
Take the opportunity to submit a question by sending an email to alvin.chuafrost.com and include the title of the event in the subject line.
Overview about The financial Crisis in 2008. The presentation with 4 main points: reasons, development (also including responses), and consequences.
We hope that this is an easy source of information for you to understand this crisis.
Western governments are hopelessly addicted to deficit financing while refusing to address looming funding issues - with apologies to the embarrassingly foolish Angela Merkel, politicians can no more successfully “battle” the markets than you and I can successfully “battle” gravity. Petrocapita is an investment trust built around the premise that demand for energy will continue to move prices higher over the long-term. Petrocapita was created to allow investors to add professionally managed oil & gas assets directly to their portfolios.
In a speech following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and in the midst of the accompanying U.S. recession, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan made a declaration that turned the world of the investment bankers upside down. Greenspan declared that the FOMC (Federal Open Markets Committee) stood prepared to maintain a highly accommodative policy stance for as long as needed to promote satisfactory economic performance. Translated from central banker speak, what Greenspan meant is that he is willing to inflate the money supply and hence lower interest rates for as long as necessary to “revive” the economy and repair it from the shock it received on that fateful day. What this meant for investors in the U.S. Treasury bond market is that they were not going to make any money on U.S. treasury securities for a very long time. Smart investors, diverted from the bond market, scanned Wall Street for a similar low-risk, high-return investment that could take the place of U.S. Treasury securities, and they fell in love with residential mortgages. On September 18, 2008, after months of economic anxiety and several massive bailouts of distressed firms by the government, the stock market had its largest single-day drop since September 11, 2001. Officials and commentators declared an economic emergency and moved on two fronts. The Department of the Treasury and Federal Reserve Board ("Fed") dusted off a 1932 statute and invoked the Fed's authority to stabilize failing firms by lending them money, although some were allowed to fail.
Mercer Capital's Bank Watch | April 2020 | Ernest Hemingway, Albert Camus, an...Mercer Capital
Brought to you by the Financial Institutions Team of Mercer Capital, this monthly newsletter is focused on bank activity in five U.S. regions. Bank Watch highlights various banking metrics, including public market indicators, M&A market indicators, and key indices of the top financial institutions, providing insight into financial institution valuation issues.
2009 03 Eco Car Policy In Thailand Impact On The Global Car Market Frost &a...Alvin Chua
Thailand has an ambition of reaching the 2 million mark in production by 2012. They are always in search of products that are emerging and have tremendous export potential. With pick-up trucks they crossed the 1 million mark and became the second biggest pick-up truck manufacturer in the world. Discover how your markets would be impacted by Thailand\'s Eco car policies and what opportunities are offered by this policy.
Frost & Sullivan Program Leader, Victoria Ng, addresses the following questions in this presentation:
* What is the progress of the Eco Car Policy in Thailand?
* Who is participating and who is not but competing in the same segment?
* What is the impact of Eco Car Policy in Thailand on ASEAN, EU and U.S.?
2009 04 Automotive Market Outlook Frost & SullivanAlvin Chua
A grim market condition awaits automakers, burdened with a huge pile-up of inventory, due to weak demand and have had to cutback significantly on vehicle production plans and profitability targets for 2009 since the advent of the economic slowdown. The uncertainty surrounding economic recovery and the continued lack of sufficient credit in the market is hurting sales and consumer confidence, which are key requirements for re-bound in positive sales.
This presentation provides Frost & Sullivan\'s perspective on how growth is expected to unfold in the next two years and what the opportunities under current market conditions are.
Take the opportunity to submit a question by sending an email to alvin.chuafrost.com and include the title of the event in the subject line.
2009 04 Automotive Tech Innovation In The Downturn Frost & SullivanAlvin Chua
With the global automotive industry in crisis, technology innovation in the short term will be largely focused on products that can be cheaply produced and quickly provide immediate relief to manufacturers facing increasingly tighter emission regulations and dwindling research funds.
Frost & Sullivan\'s Industry Analyst, Sivam Sabesan, addresses the face of technology innovation in the near term.
This presentation will take us through the marketing function, starting with challenges within the marketing career itself, considering marketing best practices, our own research plans in this area and some best practice case histories, as well as touching on the role of the CEO’s growth team.
2009 05 Electric Vehicles In Apac – Fad Or Reality Frost & SullivanAlvin Chua
Electric Vehicles (EV) are seen as a key future trend in the automotive industry in terms of oil independence.
Frost & Sullivan\'s Industry Manager, Vijayendra Rao, will share his views on challenges facing implementation of EVs in APAC, legislative, new business models, infrastructure trends emerging in APAC for implementation of EVs and threat analysis, and recommendations for EV manufacturers and suppliers.
0905 The CEO Challenge Creating A Culture Of Growth, Innovation & LeadershipAlvin Chua
This presentation will take us through what the CEO can do to develop a culture of growth innovation and leadership; how to effectively align the CEO with their team and now to leverage best practices in the development of a culture based on growth, innovation and leadership.
In this presentation, we are going to focus on creating and developing a growth, innovation and leadership culture. Of course creating a growth culture always necessitates change, so Warren Parry from Change Track Research will outline the key success factors involved in achieving high performance change, and will highlight common myths that cause confusion and prevent managers from achieving their targets.
In this months topic, we will review the foundations needed for your organisation and growth team to generate, evaluate and implement a sustainable growth process.
In light of the global economic situation, we will also be reviewing some do’s and don’ts during a recession.
It is our position here at Frost & Sullivan that with a solid CEO growth team and a growth process in place you can reduce your risk during uncertain economic times and even generate growth opportunities.
0904 Plotting Your Course Along The Growth Excellence MatrixAlvin Chua
In this presentation we discuss how to design and implement a growth system and once that is complete we will talk about growth strategies for a recession by introducing and discussing a Frost & Sullivan proprietary tool called the Growth Excellence Matrix, which we sometimes refer to this as GEM.
The Growth Excellence Matrix is our strategic approach to measuring a company’s future growth potential as a function of their strategic excellence and implementation excellence relative to their competitors. In this session, Craig will examine techniques that help identify areas for improvement and opportunities for growth in developing strategies which are realistic and achievable based on both internal as well as external challenges to growth. He will also discuss in detail the key fundamentals driving the future success of leading organisations and provide insights for creating a culture that will foster and ultimately lead to thought leadership, growth and innovation.
In this month's topic, we will review the foundations needed for your organisation and growth team to generate, evaluate and implement a sustainable growth process.
In light of the global economic situation, we will also be reviewing some do’s and don’ts during a recession.
It is our position here at Frost & Sullivan that with a solid CEO growth team and a growth process in place you can reduce your risk during uncertain economic times and even generate growth opportunities.
2009 05 Apac Container Ports Frost & SullivanAlvin Chua
There are many challenges ahead for container port operators. The biggest challenge of all is the economic downturn that took a dramatic turn for the worst in the last quarter of 2008. The declining throughput has dramatically reduced the revenues of port operators. This scenario, coupled with increasing costs from the security and green initiatives, make 2009 a very challenging environment for port operators. To meet this challenge, port operators are exploring new revenue opportunities through new services and expanding their hinterland reach.
Frost & Sullivan\'s Consultant, Michael Lee, will share his findings on:
- Insights on container ports industry structure across major Asia Pacific countries
- Container ports’ growth opportunities & future prospects
- Insights on container ports driver, restraints and challenges
- Implication of security and emission trading have on container ports across the region.
2009 04 Growth Opportunities In Asia Pacific Rail Markets Frost & SullivanAlvin Chua
The Asia Pacific rail industry is being viewed globally as a multi-million dollar industry with tremendous untapped potential and is expected to be one of the high growth - high potential markets in the world. This is especially true in the case of high speed rail projects and MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) services, which require superior technical capabilities to build. Several Asian countries have collaborated with international rail infrastructure companies for their MRT projects.
The rail industry has also come a long way as a key mode of freight transportation. Key economies such as China, India, Malaysia and Australia are expected to focus their future development projects towards building their rail infrastructure for freight transportation. High fluctuations in fuel prices and increased urbanization and traffic congestion on roads have triggered the shift towards higher use of railways for freight transportation. With the rail industry across the region also queuing up to attract customers for freight movement, there certainly exists opportunities for Logistics companies, Rail Organizations, Planning bodies, ICT Solution Providers and Real Estate Solution Providers to tap a large portion of the rail freight market.
Frost & Sullivan\'s Consultant, Rohit Gunavanthe, has completed extensive analysis for the Asia Pacific Rail markets and shares his findings in this presentation.
Swedbank was founded in 1820, as Sweden’s first savings bank was established. Today, our heritage is visible in that we truly are a bank for each and every one and in that we still strive to contribute to a sustainable development of society and our environment. We are strongly committed to society as a whole and keen to help bring about a sustainable form of societal development. Our Swedish operations hold an ISO 14001 environmental certification, and environmental work is an integral part of our business activities.
SmithStreetSolutions has broken down the US and China stimulus packages into ten spending categories in order to compare and analyze their effects. Our research shows that both packages will help bring global recovery by promoting trade. Additionally, China has seized the opportunity to use its package to advance two key long-term development goals, upgrading manufacturing and opening up its rural and western markets, that are critical milestones in the transition from ‘Made in China’ to ‘Created in China’.
Covid19 Pandemic: Looming Global Recession and Impact on BangladeshMd. Tanzirul Amin
The following article was written by me, and was published in the Economic Trends section of the Keystone Quarterly Review (Volume-30) on July 30, 2020: https://lnkd.in/g9nGxzn
The article covers the effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the world economics, and the resulting impacts on the Bangladeshi economy. Various other economic aspects are covered, along with the alarming signs/symptoms of another "Great Global Recession".
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A trader at the New York stock exchange. The last four years have seen five key stages of the global financial crisis,
with more likely to come. Photograph: Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters
9 August 2007. 15 September 2008. 2 April 2009. 9 May 2010. 5 August 2011. From
sub-prime to downgrade, the five stages of the most serious crisis to hit the global
economy since the Great Depression can be found in those dates.
Phase one on 9 August 2007 began with the seizure in the banking system precipitated
by BNP Paribas announcing that it was ceasing activity in three hedge funds that
specialised in US mortgage debt. This was the moment it became clear that there were
tens of trillions of dollars worth of dodgy derivatives swilling round which were worth a
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lot less than the bankers had previously imagined.
Nobody knew how big the losses were or how great the exposure of individual banks
actually was, so trust evaporated overnight and banks stopped doing business with each
other.
It took a year for the financial crisis to come to a head but it did so on 15 September
2008 when the US government allowed the investment bank Lehman Brothers to go
bankrupt. Up to that point, it had been assumed that governments would always step in
to bail out any bank that got into serious trouble: the US had done so by finding a buyer
for Bear Stearns while the UK had nationalised Northern Rock.
When Lehman Brothers went down, the notion that all banks were "too big to fail" no
longer held true, with the result that every bank was deemed to be risky. Within a
month, the threat of a domino effect through the global financial system forced western
governments to inject vast sums of capital into their banks to prevent them collapsing.
The banks were rescued in the nick of time, but it was too late to prevent the global
economy from going into freefall. Credit flows to the private sector were choked off at
the same time as consumer and business confidence collapsed. All this came a.
The global financial crisis of 2007-2009 and subsequent Great Recession constituted the worst shocks to the United States economy in generations. Books have been and will be written about the housing bubble and bust, the financial panic that followed, the economic devastation that resulted, and the steps that various arms of the U.S. and foreign governments took to prevent the Great Depression 2.0. But the story can also be told graphically, as these charts aim to do.
What comes quickly into focus is that as the crisis intensified, so did the government’s response. Although the seeds of the harrowing events of 2007-2009 were sown over decades, and the U.S. government was initially slow to act, the combined efforts of the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, and other agencies were ultimately forceful, flexible, and effective. Federal regulators greatly expanded their crisis management toolkit as the damage unfolded, moving from traditional and domestic measures to actions that were innovative and sometimes even international in reach. As panic spread, so too did their efforts broaden to quell it. In the end, the government was able to stabilize the system, re-start key financial markets, and limit the extent of the harm to the economy.
No collection of charts, even as extensive as this, can convey all the complexities and details of the crisis and the government’s interventions. But these figures capture the essential features of one of the worst episodes in American economic history and the ultimately successful, even if politically unpopular, government response.
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What recent and past actions have Canada and the US taken to counteract their exchange rates
with the economy in such distress over the past 10 years?
Solution
Since 2007, the world has experienced a period of severe financial stress, not seen since the time
of the Great Depression. This crisis started with the collapse of the subprime residential
mortgage market in the United States and spread to the rest of the world through exposure to
U.S. real estate assets, often in the form of complex financial derivatives, and a collapse in global
trade. Many countries were significantly affected by these adverse shocks, causing systemic
banking crises in a number of countries, despite extraordinary policy interventions. Systemic
banking crises are disruptive events not only to financial systems but to the economy as a whole.
Such crises are not specific to the recent past or specific countries – almost no country has
avoided the experience and some have had multiple banking crises. While the banking crises of
the past have differed in terms of underlying causes, triggers, and economic impact, they share
many commonalities. Banking crises are often preceded by prolonged periods of high credit
growth and are often associated with large imbalances in the balance sheets of the private sector,
such as maturity mismatches or exchange rate risk, that ultimately translate into credit risk for
the banking sector.
Crisis management starts with the containment of liquidity pressures through liquidity support,
guarantees on bank liabilities, deposit freezes, or bank holidays. This containment phase is
followed by a resolution phase during which typically a broad range of measures (such as capital
injections, asset purchases, and guarantees) are taken to restructure banks and reignite economic
growth. It is intrinsically difficult to compare the success of crisis resolution policies given
differences across countries and time in the size of the initial shock to the financial system, the
size of the financial system, the quality of institutions, and the intensity and scope of policy
interventions. With this caveat we now compare policy responses during the recent crisis episode
with those of the past. The policy responses during the 2007-2009 crises episodes were broadly
similar to those used in the past. First, liquidity pressures were contained through liquidity
support and guarantees on bank liabilities. Like the crises of the past, during which bank
holidays and deposit freezes have rarely been used as containment policies, we have no records
of the use of bank holidays during the recent wave of crises, while a deposit freeze was used only
in the case of Latvia for deposits in Parex Bank. On the resolution side, a wide array of
instruments was used this time, including asset purchases, asset guarantees, and equity injections.
All these measures have been used in the past, but this time around they seem to have been put in
place quicker (for detailed informatio.