Search Results for: Lehman
Why We Won’t Have a “Lehman Moment” in the 2016 Crash
February 5th, 2016
What the central banks cannot do is create productive places to invest the credit they’ve generated in such excess, or force qualified borrowers to swallow more unproductive debt. One way to lose a war is to focus on preparing ...
J.P. Morgan to Pay $1.42 Billion to Settle Most Lehman Claims
January 26th, 2016
Deal doesn’t resolve all of failed investment bank’s claims against J.P. Morgan J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay the remnants of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. $1.42 billion in cash to settle most of the failed investment bank’s ...
Barclays to Sell Former Lehman Bond Benchmarks to Bloomberg
December 17th, 2015
Bank makes $721 million gain selling analytics, index business Sale comes as new CEO Jes Staley speeds up non-core disposals Barclays Plc agreed to sell the indexing business built around former Lehman Brothers benchmarks to Bloomberg LP for about ...
Ernst & Young settles with N.Y. for $10 million over Lehman auditing
April 16th, 2015
Ernst & Young LLP will pay $10 million to settle a New York lawsuit accusing the accounting firm of helping Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc deceive investors in the years leading up to its 2008 collapse, the New York attorney ...
Lehman Brothers pension scheme payout agreed
August 19th, 2014
Members of the Lehman Brothers Pension Scheme will receive their benefits in full after a £184m settlement was reached in the six-year legal battle that followed the firm’s insolvency. The Pensions Regulator (TPR) announced today that a settlement had ...
World shares steadied on Friday; Gold recovered somewhat
September 17th, 2021
World shares steadied on Friday above three-week lows set in the previous session though they were heading for a weekly loss on China jitters and global growth concerns, while strong U.S. retail sales data buoyed the dollar. Shares in ...
Banking faces seismic changes
July 13th, 2021
The role of commercial banks in the global economy is changing, with lending to governments and their agencies now more important than lending to goods and services industries. It is a trend which is due to continue. The ...
Inflation, asset and consumer prices
June 25th, 2021
“The Fed finds itself between a rock and a hard place: either it keeps inflating or the whole confidence-based valuation of financial assets collapses. Either it raises interest rates or the dollar collapses.” There has been occasional speculation ...
Technical analysis and market psychology
June 16th, 2021
This article examines the relevance of technical analysis to today’s financial markets. Its genesis springs from two branches, Dow theory and the Elliott wave principal. Originally, Dow theory sprang from an attempt to discern the state of the ...
The global debt problem
April 15th, 2021
It has been recently estimated that global debts stand at $284 trillion equivalent, representing 355% of global GDP. Estimates such as these must be treated with caution, and they probably underestimate financial sector debt. Furthermore, no allowance in ...
