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Guest Post: Financial Markets & Economic Update 4Q23 by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Financial Markets & Economic Update - Fourth Quarter 2023 Summer Update On this warm October day, I am staring at my Bloomberg screen, still heartbroken over the Phillies Phailure. Unsurprisingly, the largest declines occurred starting monthly in March, 2006 and on a y-o-y basis in September, 2006 and continued to November, 2009.

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Guest Post: FInancial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

After easing and keeping rates low for three years, the Fed began tightening from June, 2004 to June, 2006. In my career, I’ve lived through many years of the Fed raising interest rates and it’s my experience that they usually tighten too much and keep rates high for too long, just like in 2001 and 2006-2007. Thanks for reading!

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How To Live Forever In The Financial Services Space

PYMNTS

From user interface technology to security and risk management, the only constant in the financial space is that nothing stays the same for long. percent share of the global money transfer market and puts the company at No. Today, we cover more than 150 markets and handle close to $30 billion in transfers. That’s a 6.75

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What's With Regulator Agita Over Bank Commercial Real Estate Lending?

Jeff For Banks

To remind readers, in 2006 the OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC issued joint interagency Guidance on Concentrations in Commercial Real Estate Lending. They need a marketing person to title their reports. But isn't fast growth by itself an indicator of increased risk of failure, regardless of the loans that fueled the growth?

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Top 5 Risk Analytics Posts: From Rising FICO Scores to Alt-Data

FICO

For the first time since we’ve been tracking these stats, the average national FICO Score reached the 700 threshold — some 10 points above what it was just prior to the recession in October 2006.”. Yes, and psychometric risk analytics could expand credit in markets worldwide. Read the full post.

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Guest Post: First Quarter Economic Commentary by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

A New Year of Volatility 2015 ushered in a whole new season of volatility in the bond and stock markets. It has been nine years since the Fed last tightened policy in June, 2006; maybe they are getting anxious. Stock market volatility began after the plunge in oil prices, as fear of the effects on energy companies emerged.

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Guest Post: 2012 Economic Year in Review by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

more “promises,” and a constant flow of new money into the markets. The biggest beneficiary of all this Fed activity has been the stock market—which ended the year at some pretty good “handles,” with the Dow above 13,000, S&P 500 above 1,400, and the Nasdaq above 3,000. Thanks for reading.

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