Posts Tagged ‘Government’
Rosenberg Says Bernanke Has Become `Super Transparent’: Video
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — David Rosenberg, chief economist at Gluskin Sheff & Associates Inc., talks with Bloomberg’s Betty Liu about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s testimony before the House Financial Services Committee and the possible impact on the financial markets. (Source: Bloomberg)
Duration : 0:3:33
Warren Says Commercial Real Estate Loans Pose Danger: Video
Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) — Elizabeth Warren, chairwoman of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, talks with Bloomberg’s Betty Liu about the outlook for community banks that have exposure to commercial real estate loans.
Warren, speaking from Newton, Massachusetts, also discusses the need for so-called stress tests on community banks. Commercial real estate loans have potential to go sour and wreck the U.S. economy unless regulators prepare now, according to a report from the watchdog for the federal financial rescue program. (Source: Bloomberg)
Duration : 0:4:21
Hart Says Swiss Banks Want `Clean Money’ Now: Video
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — Darlene Hart, chief executive officer of U.S. Tax and Financial Service Ltd., talks with Bloomberg’s Francine Lacqua about Switzerland’s banking industry and UBS AG’s agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to hand over client data on 4,450 accounts.
Switzerlands financial markets regulator challenged a court decision that it broke the law when ordering UBS to give client data to the U.S. (Source: Bloomberg)
Duration : 0:4:12
Pimco’s Gomez Sees `Good Investment Value’ in Poland : Video
Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) — Michael Gomez, co-head of emerging markets at Pacific Investment Management Co., talks with Bloomberg’s Margaret Brennan about his investment strategy for emerging-market debt.
Gomez also discusses the outlook for resolving Greece’s budget deficit crisis. (Source: Bloomberg)
Duration : 0:5:21
Cummings Says AIG Bonus Reductions Not a `Favor’ to U.S.: Video
Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat, talks with Bloomberg’s Peter Cook about American International Group Inc.’s payment of bonuses to its financial products division .
Employees in the bailed-out insurer’s financial products unit, which sold the derivatives that drove New York-based AIG to the brink of collapse, agreed to forgo about three-quarters of the $26 million in retention bonuses that the U.S. paymaster asked be forfeited, said people with knowledge of the matter.(Source: Bloomberg)
Duration : 0:3:17
Investment Strategies – Opportunities in Municipal Bonds – Bloomberg
Analysis and Discussion with Phil Condon of DWS Investments (Bloomberg News)
Duration : 0:3:29
House Financial Services Hearing on Regulation Reform – Bloomberg
Live! From Capitol Hill: Opening Remarks from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair, and U.S. Currency Comptroller John Dugan (Bloomberg News)
Duration : 0:12:46
Hitchens Says U.K. Financiers Lack Short-Term Optimism
Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) — John Hitchens, U.K banking leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, talks with Bloomberg’s Rishaad Salamat about the outlook for Britain’s financial-services industry.
U.K. financial-services companies are more pessimistic than at any time in the past year on the outlook for business growth, according to a survey by the Confederation of British Industry and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Duration : 0:4:11
Cummings, Baucus Demand Geithner Testify About AIG: Video
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — Representative Spencer Bachus, the top Republican on the Financial Services Committee, has joined Democrat Elijah Cummings, chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in calling for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to testify about the efforts of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to limit American International Group Inc.s disclosures of payments to banks. Bloomberg’s Lizzie O’Leary reports. (Source: Bloomberg)
Duration : 0:1:18
Dubai Opens Worlds Largest Tower Amid Property Slump: Video
Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) — Dubais Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum will open the worlds tallest tower, today, the Burj Dubai, today. In the five years its taken to build the $1.1 billion tower, the sheikdoms debt-fueled property market has gone from the worlds best performing to the worst, forcing officials to renegotiate loans and seek bailouts from neighboring Abu Dhabi. Bloomberg’s Rishaad Salamat reports. (Source: Bloomberg)
Duration : 0:1:40