Firms Reported in Open Sources as Having Commercial Activity in Iran’s Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Sectors, GAO-11-855R, August 3, 2011 “Using open source information, we identified 16 foreign firms that had commercial activity in Iran’s oil, gas, and petrochemical sectors from January 2010 through May 2011, including 2 firms not listed in our prior report.… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
McAfee Releases Online Banking Safety Guide for the 47 Percent of Consumers Who Are Underprotected
News release: “Acting on recent data that reveals many consumers still arent protected by even basic antivirus software when banking online, McAfee today released an educational guide for banking safely on computers, tablets or mobile devices. According to Javelin Strategy & Research, in 2010 47 percent of household financial managers did not have antivirus software… Continue Reading
Report – Mapping global capital markets 2011
Mapping global capital markets 2011, August 2011 “The 2008 financial crisis and worldwide recession halted a three-decade expansion of global capital and banking markets. Today, growth has resumed, fueled by expansion in developing economies but also a $4.4 trillion increase in sovereign debt. The total value of the worlds financial stock, comprising equity market capitalization… Continue Reading
Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Summary, June 2011
“Unemployment rates were lower in June than a year earlier in 224 of the 372 metropolitan areas, higher in 127 areas, and unchanged in 21 areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Twelve areas recorded jobless rates of at least 15.0 percent, while nine areas registered rates of less than 5.0 percent. Two… Continue Reading
Reimaging Japan – A 20-year road map for the future
McKinsey & Company: “Although we began work on Reimagining Japan long before the earthquake hit, the issues the book addresses are no less relevant in its aftermath. When it comes to the forces of nature, all any country can do is try to anticipate and then to react intelligently. The same is true of man-made… Continue Reading
Brookings – Trends: Reduced Earnings for Men in America
Trends: Reduced Earnings for Men in America, by Michael greenstone and Adam Looney “Over the past 40 years, a period in which U.S. GDP per capita more than doubled after adjusting for inflation, the annual earnings of the median prime-aged male has actually fallen by 28 percent. Indeed, males at the middle of the wage… Continue Reading
Hot Wheels 2011 – top three stolen vehicles in the nation continue to be older Honda and Toyota models
“The National Insurance Crime Bureau today Hot Wheels its list of the 10 most stolen vehicles in the United States. The report examines vehicle theft data submitted by law enforcement to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and determines the vehicle make, model, and model year most reported stolen in 2010.” Continue Reading
Dow Jones Indexes Adds Shariah-Compliant Index To Dow Jones RBP Index Family
News release: “Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced the launch of the Dow Jones Islamic Market RBP U.S. 50 Index, a unique gauge designed to measure the largest 50 U.S. stocks ranked by RBP® probabilities supplied by Transparent Value, LLC that have first passed the screens for Shariah compliance. RBP®, which… Continue Reading
OECD: Draft of the High-level Principles on Financial Consumer Protection
Draft of the High-level Principles on Financial Consumer Protection for public consultation, August 1, 2011 “Financial consumer protection should be an integral part of the legal and regulatory framework, and should reflect the diversity of national circumstances and global market and regulatory developments in the financial sector. Regulation should reflect and be proportionate to the… Continue Reading
BIS: The value of repeat lending
The value of repeat lending – by Blaise Gadanecz, Alper Kara and Philip Molyneux. Working Papers No 350, July 2011 “The unique structure of syndicated lending results in information asymmetries within the lending syndicate between banks of varying degrees of seniority. While previous studies have attempted to use indirect proxy measures to capture the effects… Continue Reading
HM Government Report – One-In, One-Out (OIOO) Methodology
One-In, One-Out (OIOO) Methodology, July 2011. Overview of OIOO: The objectives of the OIOO policy are to: bear down on the cost and volume of regulation in the economy; and encourage departments to implement regulation only as a last resort, having first considered the use of non-regulatory alternatives. The key headlines for the OIOO Rule… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve New York: Queens has among the highest percentages of seriously delinquent mortgages in New York City,
“Queens has among the highest percentages of seriously delinquent mortgages in New York City, only slightly less than the Bronx and Brooklyn. Within the borough there is considerable variation in foreclosure and delinquency rates, with pockets of high concentrations in some neighborhoods. Similar to the Bronx, Queenss year-over-year change in the house price index remains… Continue Reading
