March 30 (Bloomberg) — Greek seven-year notes fell in the first day of trading and an auction of 12-year bonds garnered demand for less than half the debt offered on concern Europe’s most indebted nation will keep struggling to fund itself. The drop drove yields on the 5 billion euros ($6.7 billion) of seven-year notes [...]

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Subprime-mortgage securities are rising at an accelerating pace as the U.S. begins to encourage reductions to homeowners’ balances, which may lead to fewer foreclosures and a quicker end to the housing slump. A Markit ABX index of credit-default swaps tied to 20 subprime-loan bonds rated AAA when created in the first half of 2006 climbed 3.2 [...]

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Liberty Helicopters Inc. is offering to fly weary commuters from New Jersey to Manhattan for about $200 a day, saving them 14 hours in traffic a week and signaling that Wall Street may have seen the worst of the recession. As many as six people at a time will travel above the Statue of Liberty, Governors [...]

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March 29 (Bloomberg) — China’s banking regulator ordered lenders to take more care when making real-estate loans, widening efforts to prevent property speculators from causing asset bubbles and bad debt. Banks should not lend to developers found by state agencies to have held land without building houses, the government said in a statement posted online late on [...]

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Businessweek, 26th Mar 2010, Stephen Bernard Stock futures are rising Friday after European leaders agreed to a bailout program for debt-burdened Greece. Domestically, investors will look to a final reading of fourth-quarter gross domestic product and a report on March consumer sentiment for signs of an economic rebound. The joint European Union and International Monetary [...]

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WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Thursday issued a fresh call to China to embrace a “market oriented” exchange rate for the yuan, saying such a move would help rebalance the global economy. Obama made his latest foray into the delicate US-China relationship in a major speech on trade, saying the world needed to rebalance [...]

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WASHINGTON: The US government registered a record budget deficit in February despite rising revenues, setting a record 17th consecutive month in the red, the Treasury said on Wednesday. The February budget shortfall was 220.909 billion dollars, a 14 percent rise from a year ago and the biggest monthly gap on record. The reading, however, was [...]

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The worst ofGreece’s financial crisis is over and other European nations won’t follow in its path, said former European Commission President Romano Prodi. “For Greece, the problem is completely over,” said Prodi, who was also Italian prime minister, in an interview in Shanghai today. “I don’t see any other case now in Europe. I don’t think [...]

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The political consensus may be that President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy has been weak. The judgment of money in all its forms has been overwhelmingly positive, and that may be the more lasting appraisal. One year after U.S stocks hit their post-financial-crisis low on March 9, 2009, the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 Index has [...]

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“Who you gonna call?” wasn’t just a catchphrase in the 1984 film “Ghostbusters.” If the worst happens in Greece, Spain or Portugal, we’re going to hear it all over again, and Europe’s taxpayers will want to know the answer. The European Union? The European Central Bank? Or the International Monetary Fund? Senior officials, including ECB [...]

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