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As head of the global structured finance syndicate at Lehman Brothers (he was promoted to a different job in 2006), Kevin White created the kind of collateralized debt securities that fueled the financial bubble -- and still bedevil many bank balance...
Tags: Lehman Brothers, Barclays Capital, U.S
September 8, 2009 We had been ignoring the signs for some time. But they were all there nonetheless. In early September 2008, the market seemed to at first breathe a brief sigh of relief at news of the government takeover of Freddie Mac and...
Tags: september 2008 markets, bank failures, lehman brothers, market freefall, fall of 2008, unemployment
The fall of Lehman Brothers The collapse of Lehman Brothers a year ago sparked a firestorm in the global markets and threatened a financial cataclysm. Even today the question remains, would saving Lehman have made a difference? From downturn to crisis...
Tags: Lehman Brothers, Wall Street Journal, lehman execs, Mr Fuld
Lehman Brothers' world headquarters displays the date of the bank's collapse last year Go home...You're just looking at a whole bunch of people who lost their jobs. Police shouted into the crowd, hastily erecting barricades, but New Yorkers and tourists...
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It may the Labour Day bank holiday weekend here in the US, but there is precious little to be cheerful about on the labour front. The latest monthly report shows that unemployment in the world's largest economy surged from 9.4 per cent in July to 9.7...
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We're coming up on the one-year anniversary of the Great Financial Meltdown, and running through much of the retrospective coverage will be the notion that it was far worse than it needed to be because the government mistakenly allowed Lehman Brothers...
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Britain's chancellor of the exchequer was in his constituency home; the US treasury secretary was hunkered down in the offices of the New York Federal Reserve, where he had spent the weekend trying to save Lehman Brothers , one of America's blue riband...
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Hong Kong — Associated Press Last updated on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009 02:07PM EDT H undreds of Hong Kong investors burned by Lehman Brothers-linked financial products marched on Sunday to demand the resignation of the territory's leader, angry over the...
The Hong Kong markets regulator is nearing an agreement with major banks over the sale of high-risk products designed by Lehman Brothers, which could see most investors recover as much as 70% of their principal, according to a report Wednesday.
Tags: Hong Kong, pay backed, Lehman Brothers, kong banks, lehman investors, backed lehman, hk unveils
We've watched AIG, Lehman Brothers, banks, insurance and mortgage companies fail. Then America looked on as the Big Three went to Washington in their private jets to ask for a bailout. Ford said they didn't really need one, but just wanted to tag...
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