The chairman of one of Credit Suisse’s newest and biggest shareholders called on the beleaguered bank to deliver a swift overhaul and return to a “very stable, conservative Swiss banking p...
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Financial Crisis Haunts Korea as It Confronts a Credit Meltdown
(Bloomberg) — Past financial crises are haunting South Korean policy makers as they rush to support a local credit market that’s quickly gone from one of the world’s safest to teetering on the b...
Is Credit Suisse a Canary in the Financial Industry Coal Mine?
Really seeing the deeper limits of high finance, though, requires attention to the relationship between speculation and crisis. Entities like Suisse and Deutsche that try to “break in” to mergers advi...
Another jumbo Fed rate hike is expected next week — and then life gets difficult for Powell
First the easy part. Economists widely expect Federal Reserve monetary-policy makers to approve a fourth straight jumbo interest-rate rise at its meeting next week. A hike of three-quarters of a perce...
Tether, Holepunch, and Synonym launch P2P credit system Pear Credit
Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin Tether (USDT/USD), has together with encrypted protocol Holepunch and Bitcoin-focused platform Synonym, unveiled a new peer-to-peer (P2P) cred...
250 years of history is telling investors to bet on Treasury bonds in 2023, Bank of America says
Benchmark U.S. Treasury bonds are facing their worst annual returns since 1788, but a big bounce is likely in the new year, along with a stock rout. That’s according to a team of strategists at Bank o...
Credit Suisse to Layoff 9,000 Employees and Raise $4 Billion
Credit Suisse plans to cut 9,000 jobs and raise $4 billion in additional capital as it faces stock price declines and fallout from significant scandals. Credit Suisse will cut 2,700 jobs by the end he...
Opinion: There’s a rush to buy I-bonds to lock in a high yield, but there may be an even better deal next week
It’s hard to imagine that there could be a better deal for parking up to $10,000 in savings than Series I bonds, at this very moment. The 9.62% yield is top-notch, and you can count the hours before i...
Credit Suisse stock lost another 20% this morning: detailed here
Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) lost another 20% on Thursday after reporting a massive loss for its fiscal third quarter and announcing a significant strategic overhaul. Details of the announced ov...
Millions of working Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck — and running out of cash as another recession looms
Inflation is taking its toll on people’s emergency funds. The share of workers who say they are living paycheck-to-paycheck has surged among middle- to high-income earners — 63% and 49%, respectively ...
My boyfriend has a nicer house, and says I should live with him. My mortgage is paid off. He believes I should pay half of his monthly costs. Is that fair?
Dear Quentin, My boyfriend owns a house with a 30-year mortgage balance of $150,000 on a 4% interest rate. He has $275,000 in cash and retirement accounts. He is retired. My house is paid off. I have ...
Credit Suisse is about to unveil its restructuring plan. Here’s what to watch.
Besieged Swiss lender Credit Suisse has been racing to finalize asset sales to help pay for its much-anticipated strategic overhaul, set to be unveiled on Thursday. The pressure is on new CEO Ulrich K...
Visa beats on earnings, increases dividend by 20%
Visa Inc. topped earnings expectations for its latest quarter, with the company’s chief executive calling out strong spending trends despite “short-term uncertainty.” The company reported fiscal fourt...
Personal savings have plunged — how to boost your savings in case of a recession
As red flags go, this is a big one. The personal savings of Americans have plunged this year, hitting $629 billion in the second quarter of 2022, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St....
What to do with your cash if you’re retired or retiring soon
The saying goes, “cash is king,” but having a plan for how to make the most of it during a high-inflation environment is still the best strategy – especially for retirees and near-retirees. Read: Inf...
Japan Credit Bureau to test credit card-based CBDC settlement solutions
Japan Credit Bureau (JCB) said will Oct. 24 that it will commence the JCBDC pilot project to test credit-card-based settlement solutions for central bank digital currencies (CBDC) using its existing c...
‘From Bambi to Godzilla.’ Strategist David Rosenberg skewers the Federal Reserve as he sees a 30% hit to home prices and the S&P 500 returning to an early 2020 low
The last time David Rosenberg shared his outlook for the U.S. stock market and the economy with MarketWatch, in late May, it was depressing enough. Rosenberg is the widely followed president and chief...
How On-Chain Credit Changes the Crypto Economy
Eventually, as undercollateralized loans come online, you would be able to borrow and trade from decentralized exchanges (DEX) and lenders without staking your own funds. Better yet, you’d be able to ...
Japan Credit Bureau to Conduct Internal CBDC Tests for Settlements
The Japanese credit card company Japan Credit Bureau (JCB) will conduct an infrastructure experiment with a digital currency that mimics CBDC usage. It is building its own crypto for the purpose. Japa...
IRS releases new federal tax brackets and standard deductions. Here’s how they affect your family’s tax bill.
America’s high inflation rate will produce a 7% increase in the size of the standard deduction when workers file their taxes on their 2023 income, according to new inflation adjustments from the Inter...
Bond Market Sees No End to Worst Turbulence Since Credit Crash
(Bloomberg) — For bond traders, the upward drift of Treasury yields hasn’t been that hard to predict. It’s the short-term swings that are vexing. Most Read from Bloomberg The world’s largest bon...
Do you have problems with the IRS — or does the IRS have a problem with you? Read this before you act.
How do you deal with a problem like the Internal Revenue Service? And how do you deal with your own tax problems as they pertain to the IRS? To be clear, I’m not talking about major problems like righ...
IRS sets new 401(k) limits — investors can save a lot more money in 2023
People can contribute up to $22,500 in 401(k) accounts and $6,500 in IRAs in 2023, the IRS said Friday. For 401(k)s, that’s an almost 10% increase from 2022’s contribution limit of $20,500. For IRAs, ...
‘When we dated for 5 years, he implied he was financially secure’: My husband was always hesitant about his finances. Now I know why.
Dear Quentin, My husband and I make about the same salary, and live modestly. Six months after we married, I found out my husband’s net worth is virtually zero. He owes more money than he has assets (...