- Schäfer was a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right Christian Democrats (CDU)
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- Following the failure of merger talks between Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank in April, both banks have pursued savage restructuring plans at the expense of their workforces
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- According to the Bank for International Settlements, in mid-June last year all global OTC contracts outstanding were still unimaginably large at $640 trillion,
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- The ESM is a fund with around € 410 billion.
Klaus Regling, director of EVM, has proposed that € 240 billion be freed up for action against the coronavirus.
- That is nearly thirty-five thousand times the €1.062bn netted difference in the balance sheet. seekingalpha.com/article/433874…
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- When short-term borrowing costs spiked in September 2019, it marked the culmination of long-term stresses that the Federal Reserve is now working to tame
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- Between '07 and '19, the value of outstanding “leveraged loans,” syndicated loans extended to companies that credit agencies rate below investment-grade, rose from $554 billion to $1.2 trillion newyorker.com/business/curre…
- This will likely result in the contraction of the credit industry, with the most in-need borrowers potentially finding it more difficult to access credit. businessinsider.com/american-house…
For one thing, it brought back bad memories of the grim days in 2008 when the repo market froze up amid fears of cascading bankruptcies.
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