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...former Lehman Brothers star analyst who is now with Japan's Nomura (which took over bankrupt Lehman's Asian operations), recently compared bank balance sheets in various countries and discovered significant differences. One telling disparity is leverage. The higher the leverage, the greater the risk, and despite efforts to put them on sounder financial footing, U.S. and European banks remain overstretched by historical standards and relative to their peers. (See the top 10 bankruptcies...
Europe's banks are in much worse shape, with a ratio of 40.5. They must either sell $9.7 trillion in assets or raise $485 billion in capital to bring leverage down to 20. The Royal Bank of Scotland (estimated leverage: 39.3) has already started slimming down. It recently put its retail and commercial businesses in Asia on the block. New CEO Stephen Hester has announced plans to create a subsidiary that will hold about $477 billion of the bank's assets that are earmarked for disposal...
Last week, the White House declared that the economic stimulus plan has already created 150,000 jobs around the country. This week, the White House was looking to put some anecdotal meat on that figure. The Pace University event brought the Vice President together with a number of business owners and executives who said they had made hundreds of hires in the past few months that they probably would not have made if the stimulus plan had not passed. In fact, a number of executives said they had even been planning layoffs coming into the year, but were able...
...forced out of business or had to default on loans. Those loans to builders are a big concern for local banks, and Robson worried that foreclosures on residential real estate developments would continue if no help arrives. What's more, no one is predicting that the economic stimulus will put the job market in the positive category anytime soon. The White House predicts the stimulus bill will create about 200,000 jobs a month for the next three months. That would be a significant jump from the 50,000 jobs or so it has created for each of the past...
...registration period is not yet closed.OCS is also cutting one-on-one counseling during this July to save money on operating costs and is taking advantage of retirements to consolidate positions, Mount said. In addition, less food will be served at events and many of the publications put out by the office will be moving online.But, according to Mount, the OCS budget is unlikely to be cut further.“At a time when the economy’s struggling and students are looking for opportunities, it’s not a time we’re looking...