The work-from-home trend has been taking its toll on office landlords and is now making its way through to banks’ commercial loan portfolios, leading some analysts to predict that more trauma could be on the way for regional banks this year. And in the current climate of bank failures, short sellers, and nervous depositors, banks…
Regional Banks Scramble to Unload Commercial Real Estate Loans, Fearing New Crisis
June 14, 2023
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Gold Prices Near Record Highs as US Banking Crisis Continues
May 12, 2023
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Gold prices are near record highs amid global geopolitical tensions and an ongoing crisis in the U.S. banking sector. Gold futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit a record high of $2,072 per ounce on May 4. Spot gold price on the day was also within a few cents of its all-time high of…
ANALYSIS: How the Current Banking Crisis Is Different From the Financial Crisis of 2008
May 2, 2023
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News Analysis As the current banking crisis spreads, with First Republic Bank becoming the third major U.S. bank failure of 2023, many are now seeing echoes of what has come to be known as the “Great Financial Crisis” of 2008–09. First Republic’s slow-motion collapse and ultimate acquisition by JPMorgan Chase on May 1 follows the…
ANALYSIS: How the Current Banking Crisis Differs From the Financial Crisis of 2008
May 2, 2023
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News Analysis As the current banking crisis spreads, with First Republic Bank becoming the third major U.S. bank failure of 2023, many are now seeing echoes of what has come to be known as the “Great Financial Crisis” of 2008–09. First Republic’s slow-motion collapse and ultimate acquisition by JPMorgan Chase on May 1 follows the…
ANALYSIS: Comparing Today’s Banking Crisis to the 2008 Meltdown
May 2, 2023
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News Analysis As the current banking crisis spreads, with First Republic Bank becoming the third major U.S. bank failure of 2023, many are now seeing echoes of what has come to be known as the “Great Financial Crisis” of 2008–09. First Republic’s slow-motion collapse and ultimate acquisition by JPMorgan Chase on May 1 follows the…
Fed’s Williams Doubts Monetary Policy Spiked Banking Sector Stress
April 11, 2023
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NEW YORK—Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said on Monday that financial system troubles that drove the central bank to provide large amounts of credit to banks is not collateral damage from the Fed’s aggressive effort to lower inflation. “I personally don’t think the pace of rate increases was behind the issues…
Why the Banking Crisis May Just Be Beginning
March 30, 2023
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News Analysis Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed in spectacular and sudden fashion on March 10, becoming the second largest bank to do so in our nation’s history and triggering panic in our banking system in the process. Although virtually everyone knows of SVB’s failure, not everyone understands exactly why Silicon Valley Bank failed. Many have…
Fed’s Jefferson: Stress Among Small, Regional Banks, Could Hit Small Businesses Hardest
March 28, 2023
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LEXINGTON, Virginia—The shuffling of deposits from small to large banks could have a disproportionate impact on U.S. small businesses that depend heavily on community and regional financial institutions for credit, Federal Reserve Governor Philip Jefferson said on Monday. “We are focused on the macroeconomy but we are aware … that there are potential distributional aspects,”…
The Bank Meltdown Has Just Begun
March 27, 2023
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Commentary Elite overseers of the U.S. banking system spent the better part of the week assuring us that all is well with it. You just have to trust them. They know. And we all know how much we can trust our overlords to tell us the truth, right? Such a wonderful track record of at…
Silicon Valley Bank and the Soft Pivot of Our Weak-Kneed Fed
March 23, 2023
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Commentary Old habits die hard for the folks over at the Federal Reserve, who immediately rung in the 2023 financial crisis with what will in due time be recalled as the fifth round of quantitative easing, the Fed’s preferred term for monetary expansion. It’s now apparent that the Fed currently finds itself between a proverbial…
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