Tag: Financial crisis
Inflation triggers new turbulence in the bond market
Bank of England in London In the coming week, the British monetary authorities will discuss the further course. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt,London When central bank governor Andrew Bailey calls the next…
Wealth is more than a full bank account
Luck The car Niclas Lahmers found the formula for happiness: Wealth equals prosperity plus health plus positive relationships. (Photo: Getty Images [M]) Dusseldorf Did you learn anything in school about…
Why UBS Wealth Management recommends fewer stocks
Trader on the New York Stock Exchange UBS expects companies in the US and Europe to earn less in 2023 than in 2022. This would weigh on their share prices.…
Human stupidity is systemic
I should have quit my job last week. I’m a co-founder of an edutech company, ada Learning, that helps companies and organizations upskill their leaders. I believe that people are…
The deputy editor-in-chief’s weekly recap
Good morning everyone, last Monday our morning conference started with a picture and a sentence: “At the moment the Dax is falling quite steeply”, wrote our team leader Investment &…
Will a financial crisis follow the bank quake?
CreditSuisse UBS takes over the former rival for three billion Swiss francs after it slipped into the crisis. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The bankruptcy of the Silicon Valley Bank and the…
How it came to the deep fall of Credit Suisse
Zurich It’s Wednesday of last week, Morgan Stanley’s investment conference in London, when the fund manager feels like he’s in the wrong movie. The head of the major bank BNP…
Spies, suicides, state aid – the case of Credit Suisse in seven acts
Zurich It’s Wednesday of last week, Morgan Stanley’s investment conference in London, when the fund manager feels like he’s in the wrong movie. The head of the major bank BNP…
Spies, suicides, state aid – the case of Credit Suisse in seven acts
Zurich It’s Wednesday of last week, Morgan Stanley’s investment conference in London, when the fund manager feels like he’s in the wrong movie. The head of the major bank BNP…
SVB has not had a risk board for months
Silicon Valley Bank The bank collapsed at the end of last week. (Photo: IMAGO/Xinhua) Denver In its reappraisal of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) bankruptcy, the US Federal Reserve (Fed)…
SVB has not had a risk board for months
Silicon Valley Bank The bank collapsed at the end of last week. (Photo: IMAGO/Xinhua) Denver In its reappraisal of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) bankruptcy, the US Federal Reserve (Fed)…
The endurance test is still to come
Janet Yellen is a shrewd finance scholar with a wide reputation in both academic and political circles. For four years she headed the Fed, by far the most powerful central…
This manager is supposed to save the Silicon Valley Bank
Tim Mayopoulos Before his rise in banks and fintechs, the lawyer made a career in a top law firm. (Photo: Bloomberg/Getty Images) new York The American deposit insurance fund FDIC…
Is a financial crisis 2.0 looming after the SVB bankruptcy?
Dusseldorf It is the biggest bank failure in the US since the 2008 financial crisis: The Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was an institution in the American tech sector, but last…
The digital euro makes no sense
handelsblatt PHOTOMONTAGE, one euro coin and binary code, digital euro (Photo: Bildagentur-online/Ohde) Everyone is talking about it, the central banks, the EU Commission and more and more commercial banks too:…
Can technology save the world?
Good morning dear readers, If you want to know how the state of mind of mankind is at the moment, you should drive to the Nevada desert. There, in the…
NRW has to bear tax debts from WestLB cum-ex transactions
WestLB successor company Portigon Portigon, the legal successor to the broken-up Landesbank WestLB, loses in court and has to pay for tax liabilities from cum-ex transactions. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt, Dusseldorf…
The European Failure: The Editor-in-Chief’s Weekly Recap
Good morning dear readers, This week we have dealt more intensively than we have for a long time with the future of European industry and with the biggest economic policy…
These risks loom if the central bank raises interest rates
Haruhiko Kuroda The central bank governor and architect of Japan’s monetary policy special path will step down in April 2023. Will the Bank of Japan use the leadership change to…
We still have a lot of currency devaluation ahead of us
We’re trapped. Decades of easy money have driven debt at all levels to historically unprecedented levels. According to data from the Institute of International Finance, the indebtedness of governments, financial…