February 23, 2012

Commonwealth Bank’s New Loans Are Profitable, CEO Narev Says

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the nation’s biggest by market value, said new loans are profitable after boosting its mortgage lending rate by 10 basis points last week, a move independent of the central bank.

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Commonwealth Bank’s New Loans Are Profitable, CEO Narev Says

Commonwealth Bank’s New Loans Are Profitable, Chief Executive Narev Says

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the nation’s biggest by market value, said new loans are profitable after boosting its mortgage lending rate by 10 basis points last week, a move independent of the central bank.

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Commonwealth Bank’s New Loans Are Profitable, Chief Executive Narev Says

Draghi Slams Bankers’ Shunning ECB Three-Year Loans

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi lashed out at bankers who said tapping the ECB’s three-year-loan program carries a stigma, after executives including Deutsche Bank AG’s Josef Ackermann said they shunned the loans.

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Draghi Slams Bankers’ Shunning ECB Three-Year Loans

Draghi Criticizes Virility of Bankers as Ackermann Avoids Loans From ECB

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi lashed out at bankers who said tapping the ECB’s three- year-loan program carries a stigma, after executives including Deutsche Bank AG’s Josef Ackermann said they shunned the loans.

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Draghi Criticizes Virility of Bankers as Ackermann Avoids Loans From ECB

Eastday-Weak market slows rise in property loans

THE growth in property loans in China slowed in 2011 amid a weaker housing market, the central bank said yesterday. Banks in China extended 1.26 trillion yuan (US$200 billion) of new property loans last year, down 770.4 billion yuan from a year earlier.

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Export loans rise, SBA reports

The Small Business Administration is making a big push to help small companies who get export loans, and companies in Central Florida are seeing the fruits of those efforts.

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China 2011 property loans slow, bill financing surges

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese banks extended a total of 1.26 trillion yuan ($199.4 billion) in new loans to property developers and home buyers in 2011, down 38 percent from 2010, the central bank said in a statement on its website on Monday.

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Bonds Show Return of Crisis Once ECB Loans Expire: Euro Credit

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s unlimited three-year loans to euro-region banks may give Italy and Spain only temporary respite from the region’s debt crisis.

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ECB Loans Stabilize Market, Don’t Provide Much Stimulus

Data from the ECB suggests that the central bank’s latest unconventional policy measures are helping restore calm in money markets, but aren’t yet helping support the currency bloc’s worsening economy.

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Constancio Sees Significant Demand for ECB Loans to Avert Credit Squeeze

European Central Bank Vice President Vitor Constancio predicted “significant” demand for three-year loans that the institution will make tomorrow to keep credit flowing during the debt crisis.

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