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30/04/2010 15:29Swedbank Reports First Profit in More Than a Year
28/04/2010 10:36Swedbank AB, the largest lender in Air Max Tnthe Baltic countries, reported its first quarterly profit in more than a year and said earnings are likely to improve as loan impairments decline in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Net income was 536 million kronor ($75 million) afterKevin Durant a year-earlier loss of 3.36 billion kronor, Stockholm-based Swedbank said today. The average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Bloomberg was for a net loss of 520 million kronor. Loan losses fell by two-thirds to 2.21 billion kronor. Swedbank was the Swedish lender hit hardest by the economic crisis afterKevin Garnett Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania suffered the steepest recessions in the European Union last year. The bank, which relied on government guarantees for funding until last July, has raised a total of 27.5 billion kronor in two separate rights offers in the past two years to replenish capital. It posted losses in all four quarters of 2009. “The first-quarter profit was a big positive surprise and it is due mainly to Nike Air Foamposite onelower-than-expected loan loss provisions,” said Kimmo Rama, a Helsinki-based analyst at Evli Bank, who advises clients to buy Swedbank shares. Swedbank rose as much as 2.7 percent in Stockholm trading and was up 2 percent to Nike Air Sharkalaid Fresh Air74.80 kronor as of 9:32 a.m. local time. The stock has gained 5.4 percent this year. ‘Increasing Confidence’Nike Air Zoom Kobe Trainer “We have increasing confidence in a continuous profit improvement, provided that the global macro economy develops according to Nike Blue Chip-Kevin Durantcurrent expectations without any significant deviations, especially in Latvia and Ukraine,” Swedbank Chief Executive Officer Michael Wolf said in the statement. Impaired credit and loans that are more than 60 days overdue have Nike Flight Dunk Hoop Supremestopped rising in the Baltics, the real estate market has “shown signs of recovery,” and the inflow of new impaired loans in Russia and Ukraine has been “low,” Swedbank said. Its Baltic banking unit’s net loss narrowed to 1.22 billion kronor from 2.8 billion kronor a year earlier, after credit impairments fell by 50 percent to 2.1 billion kronor. The level of problem loans for banks operating in theNike free 5.0 Baltic countries, led by Swedbank and Stockholm-based SEB AB and Nordea AB, will continue to grow in the coming quarters, Moody’s Investors Service said on April 26. “We expect loan losses to peak only later in the year, Nike Shox Shoes BB4as asset quality indicators should start to stabilize with a certain time lag after these countries reach the bottom of their respective economic downturn,” Moody’s said in a report. Exiting ProgramNike Zoom Kobe 5.5 Swedbank said on April 9 that it would leave the Swedish aid program,Nike Zoom Kobe III which guarantees as much as 1.5 trillion kronor of interbank lending, with “immediate effect” after raising funding independently in the market. The bank borrowed a total 421.2 billion kronor using the government guarantees and will hold parts of that debt until July 2014. Net interest income, the difference between what the Swedish bank makes from lending and pays for deposits, slumped 31 percent to 4.02 billion kronor in Nike Zoom Kobe IV All Starthe first quarter. Swedbank expects the pressure on the net interest income margin to “bottom out” in the second half of this year. “Net interest income on the other hand wasNike Zoom Kobe V a big disappointment,” said Rama. “The focus now is on the core profitability of banks, and particularly on the net interest income.” Swedbank was the first major Nordic bank to report earnings forNike Zoom LeBron James Soldier the quarter. SEB, the second-largest lender in the Baltics, and Nordea, the biggest bank in the Nordic region, and Svenska Handelsbanken AB are all scheduled to publish results tomorrow. Swedish investment company Cevian Capital has acquired more than 2 percent of the shares in Swedbank and may try to merge the lender with Sweden’s SEB AB, Dagens Nyheter newspaper reported today, without saying where it got the information.
World Bank increases voting power of developing countries
26/04/2010 14:35The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ended shoestheir Spring Meetings here on Sunday, with the endorsement of an increase of developing countries' voting power in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) by 3.13 percentage points to 47.19 percent. This represents a total shift of 4.59 percent to developing and cheap shoestransition countries since 2008, the World Bank/IMF joint Development Committee said in a communique issued after its meeting in Washington. The move marks "important strides of increasing the voice and influence of wholesale shoesdeveloping countries at the World Bank Group," World Bank President Robert Zoellick said at a press conference. "The endorsement of the shift in voting power is crucial for the bank's legitimacy." As a result of the shift, China's voting power has now increased to nike shoes4.42 percent from 2.77 percent, the third biggest after the United States and Japan. Brazil's voting power has risen from 2.06 percent to 2.24 percent,cheap nike shoes and India from 2.77 to 2.91. The latest realignment includes a selective capital of 27.8 billion U.S. dollars withNike Air Jordan Shoes paid-in capital of 1.6 billion dollars. The committee also approved a capital increase of 86.2 billion dollars for air jordanthe IBRD, including 58.4 billion dollars in general capital increase and 27.8 billion dollars in selective capital increase. By increasing its legitimacy through the voice reform and rebuilding itsair jordan shoes capacity through the capital increase, the World Bank will strengthen its efficiency, effectiveness and accountability to help the world battle the current crisis and meet future challenges, the committee said. The communique stressed the need for international cooperation in the face ofAir Max shoes uncertainty in global recovery fromNike Air Max Shoes the crisis. It called for intensified efforts to help poor countries attain theNike Shox Shoes Millennium Development Goals, as the world isAir Max only five years away from the 2015 deadline. If North Korea is ultimately blamed, South Korean officials don't air shoxexpect difficulty building public support to penalize it. While the long-tense relations between the two Koreas thawed after leaders met forair shox shoes a summit in 2000, the goodwill didn't last. In 2002, six South Korean sailors died in a naval clash with the North near where the Cheonan sank. In 2006, Pyongyang launched its first of two nuclear-weapon tests. The March 26 sinking occurred in the same boundary waters where South Korea's navy Nike Basketball Shoesseverely damaged a North Korean vessel in November, perhaps killing some of its sailors. In February, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il visited the navy base where the damaged ship returned, raising speculation in the South that he ordered an attack in retribution. In another line of speculation, some analysts say Mr. Kim may have wanted to show strength inside the country to help the potential succession of his son, Kim Jong Un. https://windowsteamblog.com/members/qiusisi
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WRAPUP 1-BOJ
21/04/2010 11:10WRAPUP 1-BOJ, govt at odds onNike Zoom Lebron V inflation targeting The Bank of Japan said inflation targeting does not work, setting it on course for Nike Zoom Lebron VIa clash with the finance minister, who said it was worth listening toNike Zoom Mvp X Nash ruling party lawmakers' calls for a binding target to escape deflation. The Democratic Party-led government has influenced BOJ monetary policy before. Should Finance Minister Naoto Kan warm further to inflation targeting, that could lead toPaul Pierce more monetary easing. Japanese retail investors are also worried that deflation and rising commodity prices will hamper growth, a Reuters survey showed, which would support the BOJ's stance ofPenny Hardaway keeping its easy policy for the time being. Democrat lawmakers are pushing the government to take drastic steps to boost economic growth as public support for Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's cabinet crumbles beforeTony Parker an election expected in July for parliament's upper house. The group of Democrats calling for an inflation target doesn't include senior party members, making it uncertain whether they can influence policy. But there is growing disquiet over the slump in the opinion polls,Jordan 1 which may make the government more susceptible to bold statements it thinks will appeal to voters. "Given the declining popularity of the government, it is likely more out-of-the-box thinking will show up," said Dariusz Kowalczyk, chief investment strategist at SJS Markets Ltd in Hong Kong. "I would look at this with hope and not with worry. Everything should be done to Jordan 2turn Japan around, which is suffering from long-term deflation." BOJ board members' understanding of long-term price stability centres on a 1 percent rise in consumer prices. BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said on Tuesday that this is better than an inflation target because it means the bank is not easily swayed by short-term price Jordan 3fluctuations. Under inflation targeting, a central bank guides interest rates to achieve a predetermined rise in consumer prices over a certain period. A central bank without a target also tries to control prices but its desired level of inflation is less explicit. The implications for Jordan 5 the BOJ are significant because it could allow the government to hold the BOJ accountable for something economists say is likely unachievable due to a large output gap. "We're at a stage where some are having second thoughts about inflation targeting," Shirakawa said in the lower house financial affairs committee. "When Jordan 4 the global economy was growing well in the 2000s, people focused too much on short-term prices. This led to an excessively long period of low rates, which created excess credit and led to increased leverage. When this was unwound, it had a big economic impact." Finance Minister Naoto Kan reiterated his desire for a 1 to 2 percent gain in prices in the same committee. Speaking to reporters earlier, he said he wouldn't discount a proposal from within his own party to target a 2 percent rise in consumer prices over two years. "It is not an outlandish target at all," Kan said after a cabinet meeting. "I think it is worth listening to." Kan has been careful to avoid explicitly saying he wants an inflation target, but his past comments have given that impression. [ID:nTOE62109M] A Jordan 6 leading member of a panel of 130 ruling party lawmakers is trying to persuade the party to adopt its anti-deflation proposals in its campaign platform for the election expected in July, but it is far from certain whether this will happen. [ID:nTOE63F06Q] Deflation can hurt the economy as consumers tend to delay spending because they expect prices to fall more, which in turn depresses capital spending. Deflation can also hurt borrowing because real interest rates are higher than nominal rates. Japanese retail investors turned positive on Japanese stocks in April for the first time in Jordan 7almost three years, as the global economic recovery sparked a rally in major share markets that pushed the Nikkei stock average to an 18-month high. [ID:nTKC005807] This optimism, tempered by lingering worries about deflation, is in line with the BOJ's and the government's assessment that Japan's recovery will continue due to growing exports, but that consumption and corporate spendingJordan 8 will remain lacklustre due to Japan's large gap between supply and demand. The BOJ may lift its consumer price forecast for fiscal 2011/12 to zero change or slight positive growth from a forecast of a 0.2 percent decline when it updates its outlook on April 30, according to sources. That is still distant from the BOJ's and Kan's understanding of Jordan 9price stability. Japan's core consumer prices fell 1.2 percent in February from a year earlier, marking a full year of deflation. [ID:nTOE62P00E] In response, the BOJ has kept its benchmark rate at 0.1 percent. Last month it doubled the amount of low-interest funds it offers to banks in three-month loans, in response to prodding from the government. The funding scheme has brought down money market rates, but it hasn't led to an increase in lending to companies. https://tomgreen.com/blogs/qiusisi
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Saturday mail fuels debate
19/04/2010 11:10The head of the agency that regulates the post office questions the need to Nike Zoom Lebron Veliminate Saturday mail delivery even as the postmaster general is pressing skeptical lawmakers to approve the plan. "Today, we stand on the brink ofNike Zoom Lebron VI financial insolvency," Postmaster General John Potter told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Thursday. "The way Americans communicate has changed dramatically and we've got to change with it." But Ruth Y. Goldway, chairman of Nike Zoom Mvp X Nashthe independent Postal Regulatory Commission, said the post office should find new ways to meet the country's needs rather than beginning with the idea that it needs to make cuts. Two things they did agree on: The post office is facing a financial crisis and a big part ofPaul Pierce that problem rests with payments to its pension and retiree health care funds. Battered by loss of mail to the Internet for both personal communications and bill payments, the postPenny Hardaway office lost $3.8 billion last year and is facing even larger losses this year. The post office has cut thousands of jobs in recent years and Potter has announced a plan to Tony Parkermake other savings by seeking permission to eliminate Saturday delivery and reducing payments to retiree funds. The postal inspector general has concluded that the agency has been required toJordan 1 overfund retiree pension benefits by $75 billion. In addition, the post office is required to prepay billions into Jordan 2a fund for retiree health care benefits, a payment that Phillip Herr of the Government Accountability Office confirmed is not required of any other federal agency, nor of large businesses. "Over the past three years, the Postal Service has paid $15.4 billion to Jordan 3Treasury to prefund future retiree health benefits. During that same time, the Postal Service borrowed more than $8 billion from Treasury so that it could make those payments," Goldway said. "Borrowing by the Postal Service to make the payments does not make sense." Only Congress can eliminate the requirement for the payments,Jordan 4 and under the law when the post office does borrow it must do it from the Treasury. In addition, because the prepayments of health benefits into Jordan 5a federal fund are counted as income in the federal budget, eliminating them would have the effect of making the federal deficit appear bigger. Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, D-N.Y., asked if Saturday delivery could beJordan 6 continued if the post office got back the $75 billion in pension overpayments. Potter said that could be done in the short run, but added Jordan 7 that he believes that in the long run the frequency of mail delivery will have to decline. Now is the best time to make that change, he said, because thousands ofJordan 8 postal workers are scheduled to retire in the next decade, meaning the staff cuts from the reduced service could be done without having to lay off any career workers. If the retirements come without a reduction in service, Jordan 9new postal workers will have to be hired and a later cutback could force layoffs. Goldway, though, insisted that "the Postal Service should reposition its goals to meet the needs of an evolving society" rather than beginning with the premise that it needs to be cut in size and scope to solve the deficit projections. https://www.feedmode.com/qiusisi
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Christopher & Banks 4Q loss narrows
16/04/2010 16:18Clothing retailer Christopher & Banks Corp. postedJordan 8 a narrower loss in the fourth quarter and beat the estimate of analysts, who expected a steeper loss.Nike Zoom Lebron V The company also finished the year turning a profit, also reversing a loss from last year. The Minneapolis-based seller of women's clothing lost $6.4 million, orJordan 9 18 cents per share, in the quarter that ended Feb. 27. A year earlier, the company posted a loss of $28.8 million, or 82 cents a share. Nike Zoom Lebron VIThe company said during the quarter it incurred a $2.9 million store asset impairment charge. Revenue fell about 2 percent to $101.9 million from $103.9 million. However, the company said fewer markdowns helpedNike Zoom Mvp X Nash buoy profit margins. On average, analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected a larger loss of 27 cents per share on sales of Paul Pierce$100.3 million. Sales at stores open at least a year fell 4 percent. That metric is considered a key figure in retail because itPenny Hardaway measures growth at existing stores, rather than including new ones. CEO Lorna Nagler said the company noted positive same-store sales gains inTony Parker the last two months of the year and is making progress on improving its operations. The recession has put a damper on the apparel industry because shoppers are focusing on only the basics so they can save money. For the fiscal year, the company earned $158,000, or zero cents a share.Jordan 4 In the prior fiscal year, the company lost $12.8 million, or 36 cents a share. Christopher & Banks predicted an increase in sales at stores open at least a year in the mid to high single digits in Jordan 1the first quarter. The company also said it expects its capital expenditures to be between $12 million and $14 million for the year. Christopher & Banks plans to open about 10 new stores this year and close 25 existing ones. Shares closed up 53 cents, or 5 percent, toJordan 2 $10.77 on Thursday. The panel's report noted that Washington Mutual was Jordan 3the largest financial institution overseen by OTS and that fees paid by the thrift accounted for between 12 percent and 15 percent of OTS's budget between 2005 and 2008. In an email obtained by the subcommittee, Reich referred to then-Washington Mutual CEO Kerry Killinger as "my largest constituent." "Regulations only work if the regulators stay at arms length from Jordan 5 those that they regulate," Levin told reporters. "And too often in this case, WaMu regulators were not at arms length, they were arm in arm." Friday's hearing will be the second of four held by the subcommittee.Jordan 6 The first, on Tuesday, also focused on Washington Mutual and examined the role of high-risk loans in the financial crisis. The next hearing, on April 23, will look at the role of Jordan 7 rating agencies. The final hearing, on April 27, will examine the role of investment banks. https://www.qiusisi.i.ph/
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Oil falls for fifth day on U.S. crude glut
14/04/2010 11:04The latest Reuters poll of analysts forecast U.S. crude stocks rose forPaul Pierce the 11th straight time last week, by 1.5 million barrels to around 357.7 million barrels. That would be their highest level since June of 2009.
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China Regulator Tells Banks to Reassess Risks After Loan Boom
12/04/2010 10:55China’s banking regulator told lenders to reassess theirNike Air Flight 95 premium risk exposures and submit reports by the end of June as officials try to prevent the nation’s credit boom from leading to more bad loans. Inspectors will visit banks in the third quarter to check on the reports, Liu Mingkang, chairman ofNike Air Zoom Flight Club the China Banking Regulatory Commission, said yesterday at the Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan province. The regulator will discuss any discrepancies found, he said. “By the end of the third quarter we willNike Air Zoom BB Low downgrade assets if needed and increase provisions,” Liu said, without elaborating. China has tightened regulations onNike Zoom Blur Low concern a record $1.4 trillion of lending last year is fueling asset bubbles and wasteful investment.Nike Zoom BB II The banking regulator last month reiterated a call for lenders to increase scrutiny of loans to property developers as the government ordered 78 state-controlled companies to exit the real-estate sector. Some lenders in Beijing have “voluntarily and prudently” raised down payment requirements forNike Air Sharkalaid Fresh Air second mortgages to 60 percent of a property’s value, the banking watchdog said inNike Zoom Blur a statement elaborating on Liu’s speech. Nationwide, banks are asking for down payments of between 40 percent and 50 percent for second mortgages, Liu said. The world financial crisis showed that leverage needs toNike Zoom FP be reduced, Liu said. Markets can never regulate and supervise themselves, he said, adding that financial regulations in China will go “back to the basics.” Climbing Property PricesNike Blue Chip-Kevin Durant China’s property prices rose 10.7 percent in February,Nike Kd LOW the fastest pace in almost two years, fueling concern at the risk of asset bubbles as inflows of capital from abroad add to the money from domestic lending. Liu cited Shanghai and Beijing as examples of property markets affected by so-called “hot money”Nike Air Foamposite one and speculation. The government aims to cut new lending by 22 percent this year fromNike Shox Shoes BB4 last year’s record. Officials last month raised deposit requirements for buyers at land auctions to 20 percent of the minimum price toNike Shox Shoes Slam TB increase costs for developers. They have also lifted banks’ reserve requirements twice this year and re-imposed a tax on home sales. The CBRC ordered lenders not to lend to Adidas TS Bounce Commander Dwight Howarddevelopers holding land without building houses in a March 26 statement. It also asked banks to stop approving new credit lines to the 78 state-owned companies if Adidas TS Lightning Creator Low Arena shoesthey use collateral other than construction projects already in progress. https://zhx0594.easyjournal.com
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Obama targets US citizen for 'kill or capture'
08/04/2010 15:30The Obama Administration has authorised the targeted killing of an American citizen in what is believed to be an unprecedented move in Nike Air Flightposite KGthe War against Terror. According to US media reports, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been linked to last November's attack on Fort Hood,Air Flightposite II KG Texas, and the failed Christmas day airline bomb plot, has been approved for capture or killing. Mr Awlaki, who is in hiding in Yemen, is understood to have moved from encouraging attacks on the United States to participating in them directly,Nike Air Signature The New York Times reports. He has been directly linked to Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the US army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, and to Umar Farouk Abdulmatallab, the Nigerian who tried to blow up Air Jordan Paul Pierce Basketball Shoesa Detroit bound plane with a bomb in his underwear on Christmas Day. American counter-terrorism officials told the newspaper that Mr Awlaki was Tim Duncan Signatures shoes adidas stealthan operative of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the affiliate of the terror network in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. He is also believed to actively recruit new members for the terror network. Experts said that targeting him was was extremely rare, if not unprecedented.Adidas T-MAC 1 A former senior legal official in the administration of George W. Bush told The New York Times he did not know ofAdidas T-mac runnning shoes -779 any American who was approved for targeted killing under the former president. But the director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, told a House of Representatives hearing inAdidas T-MAC 3.0 February that such a step was possible, without naming Mr Awlaki as a possible target. Adidas T-MAc 1 Trainer shoes“We take direct actions against terrorists in the intelligence community,” he said. “If we think that direct action will involve killing an American, we get specific permission to do that.” The possibility that Mr Awlaki might be added to the target list was reported by The Los Angeles Times in January, and Reuters reported on Tuesday that he was Adidas T-MAC 4approved for capture or killing. “The danger Awlaki poses to this country is no longer confined to Adidas T-MAC 5 words,” said an American official, who was not named. “He’s gotten involved in plots.” The official added: “The United States works, exactly as the American people expect, to overcome threats to their security, and this individualAdidas T-MAC 6 — through his own actions — has become one. Awlaki knows what he’s done, and he knows he won’t be met with handshakes and flowers. None of this should surprise anyone.” Mr Awlaki was born in New Mexico of Yemeni descent. He was interviewed by the FBI after the September 11, 2001, attacks when he was accused ofAdidas TS LightSpeed T-Mac serving as “spiritual adviser” to two of the attackers at his mosque in Falls Church. He was detained by Yemeni authorities in August 2006 and held for more than a year as part of a secret investigation Describing Mr Hasan's attack at Fort Hood on his website, which advocates violence against the West, he wrote: Adidas T-MAC 8.5“Nidal Hassan [sic] is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not bear the contradiction of being a Muslim and fighting against his ownAdidas TS Lightning Creator people. No scholar with a grain of Islamic knowledge can deny the clear cut proofs that Muslims today have the right — rather the duty — to fight against American tyranny.” On Tuesday, Jane Harman, the chairwoman of a House subcommittee on homeland security described Mr Awlaki as: “probably the person, the terrorist, who would be terrorist Number One in terms of threat against us.” https://www.blurty.com/users/zhx0594/
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