EUROPE
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"The Single European Market" – DB Research
10 Facts About The Single European Market
European industrial
policy: Limited scope for action in short term – DB
Research
UNITED STATES
BANK STRESS TESTS
Dodd-Frank Act Stress
Test 2014 – FED
Supervisory Stress Test Methodology and Results March 2014
All of the big banks except for Zions Bancorp stayed above the 5 percent
requirement for top-tier capital in the latest round of stress tests.
Stress Test Shows 29
of 30 Banks Meet or Top Capital Target – BB
The Fed’s annual stress tests found 29 of the 30 largest U.S. banks could
withstand a deep recession and still pay dividends, fueling speculation about
which firms will win approval next week to raise payouts.
Goldman Sachs Citigroup staked out sharply divergent views from the
Federal Reserve over how well they would perform in a market shock, as the
central bank gauges the strength of U.S. lenders. Such
discrepancies can lead the Fed to reject plans to pay out capital to
shareholders.
The Stress Test
Results in One Chart – WSJ
VOLCKER RULE
Report Pegs Volcker
Costs at Up to $4.3 Billion – WSJ
The Volcker rule is
projected to cost major U.S. banks up to $4.3 billion, due largely to the
lost value of investments in certain debt instruments, a federal bank regulator
said Thursday.
Volcker
Rule Will Cost Banks Up to $4.3 Billion, OCC Says – BB
The regulator estimates implementation costs between $413 million and
$4.3 billion for banks it supervises, the OCC said in a report released
yesterday…The Volcker Rule, which bans banks from making speculative trades
with their own money and limits their stakes in certain private funds, was
adopted Dec. 10 by five U.S. financial
regulators.
FEDERAL RESERVE
Yellen’s words vs
what you heard – FT
Recap : More on the
FOMC
– Global
Macro Trading
Fed's Kocherlakota
blasts new rate guidance – Reuters
Fed's Kocherlakota
Warns Fed Guidance Hurts Credibility, Not Dovish Enough – ZH
ASIA
OTHER
Industrial
Commodities Update – Short Side
of Long
After a 3 year downtrend, Copper is moving into a panic sell off * Brent
Crude is at a decision point and a breakdown looks likely!
FINNISH
Gennadi Timtšenko – Putinin rahoittaja vai
väärinkäsityksen uhri?
– HS
Miksi Venäjä vääjäämättä häviäisi taloussodan – Roger
Wessman
Yritysjohtajat kaappasivat poliitikoilta
vallan – TalSa
Tutkija Anu
Kantolan mukaan politiikka on menettänyt asemaansa yhteiskunnassa. Talouselämän
johtajat taas nousivat vallankäytön ytimeen, kun ihmiset innostuivat johtajien
intohimoisesta asenteesta ja vetoavasta tyylistä. Suuntaa näyttivät Kalevi
Keihänen ja Nokian Kairamo.
Arvonlisävero saattaa mennä remonttiin,
lapsilisät verolle?
– Iltasanomat