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Friday, 23 January 2009

What's really wrong with Sterling?

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What's really wrong with Sterling? The pound is suffering its worst ever fall in value. Why is it happening and what are the implication...

World crisis deepens as downturn bites in Asia

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World crisis deepens as downturn bites in Asia Grim economic news from China and Japan showed the global crisis hitting ever harder Thursday...

US: More Pain Ahead

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APLayoffs spike, housing tumbles; outlook worsens Thursday January 22, 4:42 pm ET By Jeannine Aversa, AP Economics Writer Worse-than-expecte...

Firing John Thain Should Be Ken Lewis's Last Act At Bank Of America (BAC)

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Firing John Thain Should Be Ken Lewis's Last Act At Bank Of America (BAC) Posted Jan 22, 2009 02:07pm EST by Henry Blodget in Newsmaker...

Broken Financials: Are Bank Stocks Going to Zero?

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Broken Financials: Are Bank Stocks Going to Zero? Posted Jan 22, 2009 03:39pm EST by Aaron Task in Investing , Banking , Housing Related: X...
Thursday, 22 January 2009

Social risk

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Social risk Social risk is difficult to quantify. It reflects the potentially adverse impact changing public attitudes can have on a firm’s ...

Political risk

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Political risk Political risk reflects the possibility that a foreign government will interfere with a firm’s preferred manner of conducting...

Foreign exchange risk

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Foreign exchange risk Foreign exchange risk reflects the possibility of loss due to adverse changes in the relative values of world currenci...

Interest rate risk

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Interest rate risk Interest rate risk is the chance of a loss in portfolio value due to an adverse change in interest rates. When interest r...

Purchasing power risk

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Purchasing power risk Purchasing power risk reflects the possibility that the rate of return on an investment will be insufficient to offset...

Financial risk

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Financial risk Financial risk is associated with the bottom of the income statement; it deals with earnings and how business risk and the fi...

Business risk

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Business risk Business risk is the variability in a firm’s sales or in its ability to sell its product. It is associated with the top of the...

Partitioning Risk

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Partitioning Risk Risk has many subsets. Total risk is all-inclusive and refers to the overall variability of the returns of a financial ass...

Asian economic woe grows as China slows and Japanese exports plunge

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Asian economic woe grows as China slows and Japanese exports plunge China's economy may have ground to a halt entirely between the third...
Wednesday, 21 January 2009

Risk Aversion

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Risk Aversion One of the key concepts in finance is the fact that a safe dollar is worth more than a risky dollar. This important principle ...

Safe and Risky Investments

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Safe and Risky Investments Joe Conservative hates risk and is terrified of the prospects of losing money. He is strictly a bank CD man, bei...

The Problem with Losses

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The Problem with Losses Big Losses This investment has an expected return of 9.50%. Standard statistical thinking tells us if we invest in t...

Advice for Uncertain Times

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Ben Stein How Not to Ruin Your Life Advice for Uncertain Times by Ben Stein Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 12:00AM The night before Dr...

UK cannot take Iceland's soft option

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UK cannot take Iceland's soft option The British government faces an excruciating choice. It cannot let Royal Bank of Scotland and its f...

World economy 'close to the bottom' of liquidity cycle

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World economy 'close to the bottom' of liquidity cycle Morgan Stanley has begun to detect early signs that the global economy may be...