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09:12 PM | August 16,2009
RBI has been keeping an eye on large financial conglomerates for many years now, but none is so big as to pose a systemic risk in times of trouble
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Service Economics | Shanto Ghosh, Ipsa Mohanty and Anushree Ashokbhat 12:20 AM | June 26,2009
India’s financial system has very little exposure to foreign assets and their derivative products and it is this feature that is likely to prove an antidote to the financial sector ills that have plagued many other emerging economies
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PTI 10:51 AM | May 10,2009
The failure of 33 entities translates into an average of little over six banks every month in 2009
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Federal Economics | Caroline Baum / Bloomberg 12:31 AM | April 15,2009
Most investors have neither the time nor the temperament to pick through individual loans that are pooled, sliced, diced and transformed into something with a credit rating and a cash flow to determine their viability
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Ranjani Iyer Mohanty 09:54 PM | March 26,2009
While we believe in natural selection, we are not letting it work on financial institutions that have failed
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Elaine Kurtenbach 09:59 PM | March 18,2009
In Europe, Britain’s FTSE 100 dipped 0.1%, while Germany’s DAX rose 1.2% and France’s CAC 40 advanced 0.8%
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01:37 PM | January 31,2009
Brown and other leaders believe an international early alert system of some sort might have prevented the rapid spread of contagion in the world financial markets
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11:57 PM | January 20,2009
The new American President is smart, articulate and perhaps the best man to lead his country into a new era
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Mint Column | Manas Chakravarty 11:29 PM | December 12,2008
Subbarao hit the ground running as the global financial crisis intensified soon after he took over as RBI chief on 5 September. Four comments on how he has fared so far, and what to expect next.
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PTI 12:11 AM | November 19,2008
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Edward Hadas / breakingviews.com 10:24 PM | November 10,2008
Something needs to be done to keep recession from turning into a huge slump. So far, the attack against deleveraging has involved stuffing banks with capital and slashing official interest rates
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Mark to Market | Manas Chakravarty and Mobis Philipose 11:42 PM | November 03,2008
Profit before tax margin has dropped to about 3% this year, compared with 5% a year ago
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Hugo Dixon / breakingviews.com 12:53 AM | October 11,2008
It ensures banks are properly capitalized, guarantees medium-term lending and provides short-term liquidity
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Raghuram Rajan and Eswar Prasad 11:45 PM | April 07,2008
The solution is more competition between the formal and informal institutions, fewer controls on the former
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Breakingviews.com | Hugo Dixon 12:34 AM | April 03,2008
Bank bosses do not like to raise lots of capital
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