Ben Bernanke at the FCIC: live blog, part 2
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on 09-02-2010
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Alan Rappeport, an economics and business reporter for the FT, will provide rolling coverage of Ben Bernanke's questioning by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission panel today. Alan's coverage on this blog will start at about 2pm UK time, 9am EST.
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on 09-02-2010
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Iceland’s Central Bank (Sedlabanki Islands) has slashed its key interest from 8% to 7%. While a cut was expected, it was not as much as economists had forecast after inflation eased and the country’s currency, the krona, strengthened. The central bank has aggressively cut interest rates after they...
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on 08-18-2010
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The results of the European banking stress tests are to be published today.
The stress tests were conducted to ease increasing anxiety over Europe’s finance sector.
A total of 91 banks from across Europe have been tested and regulators have assessed whether banks are strong enough to cope with any future...
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on 07-23-2010
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