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An interesting take on what the credit crisis fallout may have on the landscape of Wall Street banks. Traditionally run by “big, loud, back-slapping, larger-than-life, American executives”, this credit crisis has the potential of globalising the American financial markets. Elsewhere in the world, globalisation has been suspiciously seen as an encroachment of big Western companies [...]

Financial Times, 20 September
Fresh economic shocks on the scale of the current credit squeeze will occur if US house prices continue to fall, one of the country’s leading housing experts warned on Wednesday.
Robert Shiller, a Yale university economist, told a US congressional panel that he feared “the collapse of home prices might turn out to [...]

Singapore,  The Straits Times, 20 September
By Erica Tay, Economics Correspondent
FORCEFUL. Gutsy. Unambiguous.
The United States Federal Reserve has delivered a powerful jolt to sickly financial markets by slashing the key federal funds interest rate by half a percentage point, double what most analysts were expecting.
This is strong medicine, considering that the last time the US Fed [...]

Financial Times, 18 September
Asian stocks fell on Tuesday, as financial shares lost ground amid concern about spreading turmoil in credit markets, while energy shares gained as US crude hit an all-time high above $81 on supply worries.
The dollar remained subdued ahead of a widely expected interest rate cut by the US Federal Reserve later on [...]

Business Times, 11 September
Bulk of inflows in past 2 weeks goes to North Asian funds
By CHOW PENN NEE
(SINGAPORE) Funds flowing into the Asian region in the past two weeks have surpassed redemptions in late July and August period, when equity markets suffered sharp losses on concerns of a global credit crunch, according to a Citigroup [...]