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...Almost two-thirds of Russians are unwilling to receive the Sputnik V vaccine and about the same number believe Covid-19 was created as a biological weapon, a pollster said on Monday....
...Now it may be that the lack of growth in banks' corporate lending reflects more than just the economy....
...“Banks like to have deposit stickiness that can be used to underpin lending,” he says....
...I would be in favour of this as part of a package of other measures designed to encourage lending by commercial banks. But I suspect that monetary policy is quite weak compared to fiscal policy....
...The small-business lending market is much smaller than mortgages: about $250bn, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, compared with home loans of $8.8tn....
...What looks like an over-collateralised commercial real estate loan, for example, is really an equity stake in an extremely illiquid physical asset if the underlying property is 40 per cent overvalued....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...The International Finance Corporation in 2009 invested $15m in Dinant, in the first tranche of an expected $30m loan....
...Email Viral V Acharya...
...have a huge lending programme, at this moment we have 135 works of art from our collection on loan to various museum shows.”...
...Efforts are under way to revive the main commercial district in downtown Los Angeles by turning part of it into an entertainment district....
...bank Merrill Lynch, under pressure in the wake of Lehman’s failure, agreed to be acquired by Bank of America; the major thrift institution Washington Mutual was resolved by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...
...The 2008 class of failed lenders numbers five following the seizure of IndyMac by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – the largest US bank failure in two decades....
...But shares in IndyMac Bancorp, a lender of comparable ranking in the US, were down 99 per cent before the bank finally went under last Friday....
...This fund of Rs.4,000 crore will incentivise Banks and State Finance Corporations (SFCs) to lend to Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) by refinancing 50 per cent of incremental lending to MSEs during the...
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