International Finance Presentation notes for years 2005-Present: Year 2005: * The Growth of China and India as World Financial Powers. The rise of China and India as world financial powers is nothing short of amazing. Economists estimate that both nations can grow at the rate of 7-8% for decades to come. China‚ alone‚ has grow at about 9.6% for the past two decades. Together‚ the two countries account for one-third of the world’s population. Countries like the United States initially
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Sink or Swim On Monday‚ September 15th 2008‚ “Crisis on Wall Street as Lehman totters‚ Merrill is sold‚ AIG seeks to raise cash” splashes across the newspaper headlines throughout the country. Panic immediately sets in as the looming stock market threatens to crash. As the housing bubble bursts‚ people are unable to pay back their mortgages. Businesses fail and jobs are lost; the unemployment rate jumps to a terrifying ten percent in October of 2009 (databases). The government prevented a
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The U.S. economy experienced a deep recession in years of 2008 through 2009. A huge factor in this was the number of large financial institutions that failed. Also‚ the stock market declined significantly which can be contributed to the bailout plan that was passed by our government. Third‚ spreads on many different types of loans over comparable U.S. Treasury securities has expanded significantly (Chari‚ Christiano‚ & Kehoe‚ 2008). The financial crisis is the result of the collapse of the housing
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1.1 INTRODUCTION: Retail Banking has always been an integral part of the banking activities world over‚ but it is only in the recent past that it has gathered momentum. Though internationally this revolution started in the 1980’s‚ as far as India is concerned‚ the post- liberalization era marked the starting point of retail banking revolution with new generation private banks and foreign banks taking the lead. Retail banking has been the focus of attention for the banking industry. Changing
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ECONOMIC VALUE Hong Kong prides itself as an open and international city with a level playing field for all. If we really want to be a world class city like New York‚ London or Toronto‚ we would need to demonstrate our tolerance and be receptive of people coming from diverse backgrounds. Literally we need to put our money where our mouth is‚ not just pay lip service to it but guarantee it by law. Hong Kong is a very multiracial society. We have many kinds of Chinese alone: Hong Kong Chinese‚ Mainland
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political environment and widespread poverty‚ Bangladesh has achieved significant development on the social welfare. With growth rate of 7 percent the economy has accelerated to an impressive level. The leading global investment banks like Citi‚ Goldman Sachs‚ JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch have all identified Bangladesh as a big investment market. Reasons behind the underdevelopment It is encouraging for us to see that the capital market of Bangladesh is growing slowly. Some corporate inside information
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and other reasons‚ this figure is likely to increase in future. Moreover‚ there is a large population in the age group of 25-35 which prefers non-alcoholic beverages while having meetings‚ group chat‚ hangouts and other occasions. According to Goldman Sachs‚ Indian economic growth could actually exceed China in year 2015 which displays more prospects for coffee industry to gain a boom in India. There are many big players which are involved into business of providing coffee to large base of customers
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Association) CDS Premium Special Report KIS Credit Monitor 2012.3.26 10 11 Special Report KIS Credit Monitor 2012.3.26 12 13 31 25 19 18 17 14 12 9 7 6 5 4 3 SK LG Macquarie Bank Limited GS Credit Agricole S.A.‚ Goldman Sachs Group‚ Inc.‚ KT‚ SK China Development Bank‚ SK Bank of America Corporation‚ Morgan Stanley‚ Societe Generale Citigroup Inc.‚ General Electric Capital 2 Corporation‚ KCC‚ Lloyds TSB Bank Plc‚ Royal Bank of Scotland N.V.‚ SK‚ Sumitomo Mitsui
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Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley (“MS”) Executive summary Paul Nasr is a senior managing director (“MD) at MS in the Capital Markets (funding) area. He has 20 yrs of experience and was hired by Mack (the new boss at MS) to lead the Capital Markets (“CM”) area. Capital Markets is the link between Sales & Trading and the Investment Banking Division (“IBD”) and their main function is to raise funds. Sales &Trading area sale the products that Capital markets originate. Investment Banking and CM are interrelated
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Rob Lawson an economist at southern Methodist university states: “Russia has climbed up the rankings to be the best-placed of the rising economies known collectively as the BRIC countries Brazil‚ India‚ China and Russia‚ which investment firm Goldman Sachs has predicted will become the world’s dominant suppliers of manufactured goods and services‚ as well as raw materials‚ and outstrip the current major economic powers in terms of wealth by 2050”. The
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