NICE, France -- European Union economic policy makers see no end in sight to the credit crisis but believe their banking systems remain sound. At a two-day meeting on the French Riviera, the bloc's finance ministers and central bankers mulled the impact of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s difficulties and questioned whether their own regulatory regime could prevent the collapse of such a large firm. Policy makers...
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As the global credit crisis unravels amid the latest turn of events with Lehman Brothers, America's fourth largest investment bank, going under, the region and the UAE may do well not to be too sanguine about not being...
LAUSANNE, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The Swiss National Bank is closely monitoring financial market turmoil and is in close contact with the country's big banks as well as other central banks, SNB Vice-Chairman Philipp Hildebrand...
LAUSANNE, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The Swiss National Bank is closely monitoring financial market turmoil and is in close contact with the country's big banks as well as other central banks, SNB Vice-Chairman Philipp Hildebrand...
THE wreckage on Wall Street is unbelievable - there is no other word for it. Two more top US banks - Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers - have gone only days after Washington was forced to bale out Fannie Mae and Freddie...
Canary Wharf in London, where humbled Lehman Brothers staff packed up on Monday (Photo: wikipedia) PHILIPPA RUNNER Today @ 09:28 CET EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The US banking crisis wiped billions off the value of European...
A meeting of European finance ministers in Nice over the weekend highlighted the EU's lack of common tools to prevent or deal with a collective catastrophe like that currently occurring in US financial markets with the...
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today @ 11:43 CET European Union finance ministers meeting in the south of France for informal discussions over the weekend on a unified response to the darkening economic clouds agreed to boost loans to...
By Leigh Thomas NICE, France Sept. 14: The crisis roiling the financial sector will probably grind on for some time, but European banks should be able to avert serious trouble, EU finance chiefs said. The US investment...
NICE, France, (AFP) - The crisis roiling the financial sector will probably grind on for some time, but European banks should be able to avert serious trouble, EU finance chiefs said. US investment bank Lehman Brothers'...
by Leigh Thomas Sun Sep 14, 12:57 AM ET NICE, France, (AFP) - The crisis roiling the financial sector will probably grind on for some time, but European banks should be able to avert serious trouble, EU finance chiefs...