Keyword: Credit crisis

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Bank of Canada acts to boost market liquidity; U.S. government to buy banking shares

More policy actions are likely to combat credit crunch

Purchasing mortgage pools "a safe, efficient and economic way of facilitating credit markets"

  • By: IE Staff
  • October 10, 2008 October 10, 2008
  • 13:55

Banks lower prime lending rate

  • By: IE Staff
  • October 10, 2008 October 10, 2008
  • 13:30

The International Organization of Securities Commissions Emerging Markets Committee announced that it will study the implications of the financial crisis for emerging market countries in an effort to uncover the best ways for these jurisdictions to deal with such events.The group met in Marrakech this week and decided to launch an EMC chairman’s Task Force […]

IIFA conference wraps in Montreal

  • By: IE Staff
  • October 9, 2008 October 9, 2008
  • 14:10

Economic downturn isn’t deep enough to warrant the massive erosion in energy and resource stock valuations

Central banks show leadership through co-ordinated action, economists say

Since the onset of the credit crisis market cap has plunged almost US$3 trillion

And there are some doubts about the U.S.’s rescue plan, partly because the conditions that caused the crisis remain