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Lauren Silva Laughlin / breakingviews.com 10:56 PM | March 13,2009
GE had maintained a high overall rating because of the steady cash thrown off by the industrial side of its business
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Una Galani / breakingviews.com 09:51 PM | March 12,2009
Residential and commercial property prices in cities such as Delhi and Mumbai skyrocketed—rising by as much as 300% in the three years until 2007
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 10:08 PM | March 10,2009
The liquidationist would have allowed Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. to go, as happened in reality
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Hugo Dixon / breakingviews.com 09:24 PM | March 09,2009
The solution isn’t to pick on one particular banking activity, label that as especially risky and quarantine it in some half-regulated purgatory. The better approach is to improve risk management across the industry
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 09:12 PM | March 08,2009
The Obama administration’s stimulus package should provide a short-term economic boost soon, so a bottom to the economic downturn may be approaching
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Edward Hadas / breakingviews.com 09:53 PM | March 06,2009
Unemployment is rising fast, credit spreads are widening and world trade has not picked up. The recession is getting worse and unless a turn comes quickly, the official experiments are likely to get even more desperate
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John Foley / breakingviews.com 10:51 PM | March 05,2009
The package so far will leave a fiscal deficit of under 3% of GDP--high for China, but frugal by today’s international standards
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 11:20 PM | March 04,2009
While Obama reiterates the US commitment to the World Trade Organization, his agenda promises to “aggressively defend our rights and benefits under the rule-based trading system”
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 12:04 AM | March 04,2009
The Dow Jones Industrial Index closed at 6,763 on 2 March, down 52% from its 2007 high
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John Foley / breakingviews.com 10:53 PM | March 02,2009
HSBC clearly needs the extra buffer, much of which could be absorbed by fresh losses
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Antony Currie / breakingviews.com 11:40 PM | March 01,2009
The big boost to the firm’s stock market capitalization should also mean Citi ought to be in a better position to raise more capital, should it need to
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 12:02 AM | February 28,2009
It’s a very high-risk strategy, requiring the economy and markets to be as responsive as US voters were to Obama’s optimism
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Robert Cyran / breakingviews.com 12:14 AM | February 27,2009
Microsoft has a well-experienced legal team and plenty of rivals. Perhaps Ballmer’s learnt more from the RCA example than he’s letting on
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Jeffrey Goldfarb / breakingviews.com 10:41 PM | February 25,2009
With wealth on the wane, many of the world’s rich are sellers not buyers of art these days, so it would be foolish for anyone to be too exuberant about the evening’s implications
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John Foley / breakingviews.com 11:04 PM | February 24,2009
The US needs to start substituting exports for borrowing, while China needs to swap American consumers for the home-grown kind
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