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FSB warns Canada over household debt

Country's financial system vulnerable to economic downturn.
31 Jan 2012 9:08 AM

Anxiety levels at record high in banking

Strong belief that world is teetering on fresh financial crisis.
30 Jan 2012 7:58 AM

Spanish unemployment rises to 24%

Country remains in deep financial crisis.
27 Jan 2012 1:14 AM

Why eurozone markets have mispriced bonds

COMMENTARY:It is widely acknowledged that eurozone markets underestimated sovereign risk before the financial crisis. By all accounts, they're now overestimating it.
25 Jan 2012 4:12 PM

Time to downgrade S&P?

COMMENTARY:The credit rating agencies performed an ill-starred role in the global financial crisis, so it's a mystery as to why anyone still takes them seriously.
20 Jan 2012 5:47 PM

Asian markets rise on IMF crisis plan

Investors hope IMF move helps avert global recession.
20 Jan 2012 12:07 AM

Assessing QBE's storm damage

COMMENTARY:As if a record year for natural disasters wasn't enough, the financial crisis has continued to hit QBE's bottom line.
12 Jan 2012 2:52 PM

Taking state debt to the bank

COMMENTARY:Before the economic crisis, banks focused on providing financing for the private sector, but now state debt is all the rage – despite its increasingly risky outlook.
23 Dec 2011 8:06 AM

Tell-tale signs of a global recession

COMMENTARY:Despite the optimism evident in last night's rally, a leading bond investor has warned a recession is looming, with any further QE action likely to worsen the situation.
21 Dec 2011 8:32 AM

Centro clear of crisis limbo

COMMENTARY:After a fraught process, shareholder votes to amalgamate the Centro group mark an end to the directionless situation it has been trapped in since the start of the global financial crisis.
23 Nov 2011 10:15 AM

SCOREBOARD: Fear frenzy

COMMENTARY:The crises in Europe and the US have become self-fulfilling prophecies, despite no evidence of global recession.
23 Sep 2011 7:38 AM

SCOREBOARD: Bailout blitz

COMMENTARY:A dearth of confidence in the will of Europe's political leaders to deal with the region's economic crisis savaged markets overnight.
6 Sep 2011 7:43 AM

Lurching into a banking crisis?

COMMENTARY:The US Fed's investigation of European banks is highly dangerous, as it won't let them cover hidden losses gradually. That's why overnight market falls represent our most serious setback since the global financial crisis.
19 Aug 2011 10:35 AM

US probes S&P, Moody's over financial crisis

Agencies allegedly misrated financial products.
19 Aug 2011 10:03 AM

Too early for a US write-off

COMMENTARY:With the US struggling to recover from the financial crisis, everyone seems to be calling a new world order with China at the reins. But that may be a little premature.
12 Aug 2011 5:51 PM

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The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was the most significant global financial downturn since the Great Depression of the 1920's.

Starting in America with ‘Low Doc’ and sub-prime mortgage housing loans and risk taking by the larger banking institutions, the calling in of debts caused many high risk financial schemes to become untangled and uncovered.

The most notable of these high risk schemes was the highly publicised Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme.

Highly leveraged nations in the Euro Zone also became victims with Iceland, Greece, Spain and the Eastern Block countries most affected with some close to defaulting on their sovereign debt.

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