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Tuesday, 8 April 2014

April 7, 2014: News Updates


Apologies for the tardiness of TN lately-  We have been incredibly busy here getting ready for the QEG build and setting up the community.... and struggling with internet issues. 



 Ex-ABN Banker Schmittmann, Wife, Daughter Found Dead at Home

By Martijn van der Starre Apr 6, 2014
Former ABN Amro Group NV Netherlands Chief Executive Officer Jan Peter Schmittmann, his wife and a daughter were found dead at their home yesterday after a possible “family tragedy,” Dutch police said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-05/former-abn-banker-schmittmann-wife-daughter-found-dead-at-home.html

 Liechtenstein Banker Shot Dead in Reported Investment Feud

By Jan-Henrik Foerster and Carolyn Bandel Apr 7, 2014 9:13 PM GMT+0100
A Liechtenstein banker was shot dead after a feud involving an investment fund, and police said they believe the alleged killer later committed suicide.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-07/liechtenstein-police-says-48-year-old-man-killed-in-bank-garage.html

 British millionaire jeweller Andrew Bush shot dead at Spanish mansion as police hunt model ex-girlfriend- Apr 07, 2014

Police are hunting the ex-lover of a British millionaire gold dealer who was assassinated at his Spanish mansion.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/andrew-bush-murder-british-millionaire-3381077#ixzz2yF6PbTX1

 ***Banks May Reap $100 Million From Lafarge-Holcim Merger

By Manuel Baigorri and Francois de Beaupuy Apr 7, 2014 1:19 PM GMT+0100
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), Rothschild and Zaoui & Co. are among banks that may split as much as $100 million in fees for their roles advising on the merger of Holcim Ltd. (HOLN) and Lafarge SA (LG) to create the world’s biggest cement maker.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-07/banks-may-reap-100-million-from-lafarge-holcim-merger.html


Euronext Breaks, Again

apr 7 2014

Ealier today, around the time the US market opened sharply lower despite the attempt to send it soaring with the traditional and well-expected USDJPY ramp, the Euronext exchange... broke.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-07/euronext-breaks-again


Nigeria Just Doubled The Size Of Its Economy With The Stroke Of A Pen

10 business honchos about to flood Congress with money

By Rick Newman 7 hours ago The Exchange

The Supreme Court’s latest ruling on political contributions is likely to gives rich donors even more sway over national elections, intensifying the troubling influence of money in politics.

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/10-business-honchos-about-to-flood-congress-with-money-140020944.html

The Chinese Ponzi Continues: Property Developers Buy (Piggy) Banks

apr 7 2014
"Whatever it takes," appears to have become the new mantra across global financial systems and with Chinese shadow banks under increasing pressure (as cash-for-commodity deal financing dries up and "hedge" losses mount on 'surprise' Yuan weakness), property developers are increasingly desperate for liquidity. The solution, as The FT reports, Chinese property companies are buying stakes in banks and raising fears that the country’s already stretched developers are trying to cosy up to their lenders. 10 Chinese developers, who have been active in recent bank IPOs, have invested an 'unprecedented' $3bn in their potential lifeline lenders.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-07/chinese-ponzi-continues-property-developers-buy-banks

Chinese shipyards leave banks holding bag for late projects

Apr 8, 2014
Chinese shipbuilders' refusal to pay refunds on late projects creates legal problems for lenders

http://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1467929/chinese-shipyards-leave-banks-holding-bag-late-projects










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Tuesday, 1 April 2014

April 1, 2014: News Updates

****$242 Billion: That Is How Much Record "Window Dressing" Banks Got Today Thanks To The Fed

mar 31 14
The last time banks scrambled to pad their books into the quarter end, and come begging at the front door of the NY Fed's Liberty 33 office, was on the last day of Q4 and 2013, when nearly $200 billion in Treasurys were handed out by the Fed to over 100 counterparties in what was the largest reverse repo operation conducted by Ben Bernanke, and his brand new Fixed-Rate Reverse Repo operation, in history.
That was the record until today, when just over an hour ago the Fed disclosed that as part of its most recent reverse repo operation, it had handed out to 93 dealer banks and other financial intermediaries, both foreign and domestic, some $242 billion in Treasurys in what is now the biggest reverse repo operation in history, a privilege for which the collateral-starved banks paid the Fed the king's ransom of 0.05% in annual interest, i.e., nothing.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-31/242-billion-how-much-record-window-dressing-banks-got-today-thanks-fed


**Forget Bitcoin, African E-Money Is the Currency-Killer

15 Mar 31, 2014 2:55 PM ET
All the talk of bitcoin in recent years has overshadowed the real e-finance revolution: In Africa, India and now Eastern Europe, a service called M-Pesa has replaced banking for millions of people who don't have or, in fact, even need a bank account.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-31/forget-bitcoin-african-e-money-is-the-currency-killer


China Confiscates Billions In "Ugliest Corruption Scandal" In History

mar30 14
With Chinese authorities increasingly looking like they are sticking to their reform promises, fighting moral hazard and allowing defaults to occur (in a completely 'contained' way, of course); the continued crackdown on graft and government corruption has hit a new high (or low). As Reuters reports, Chinese authorities have seized assets worth at least 90 billion yuan ($14.5 billion) from family members and associates of retired domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang, who is at the center of China's biggest corruption scandal in more than six decades. 71-year-old Zhou has been under house arrest since first being investigated late last year but the size and scale of the corruption is unprecedented including 300 apartments, 60 vehicles, bonds, stocks, and gold - "it's the ugliest in the history of the New China."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-30/china-confiscates-billions-ugliest-corruption-scandal-history


China Construction Bank eyes issue of 20b yuan of subordinate debt

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 01 April, 2014
China Construction Bank plans to issue 20 billion yuan (HK$25.2 billion) of subordinate debt on the mainland and is studying the feasibility of issuing preference shares to boost capital.

http://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1462065/china-construction-bank-eyes-issue-20b-yuan-subordinate


​Free-fall: IMF to accelerate Ukraine’s economic collapse?

mar 31 14
Ukraine is bankrupt. It has wavered on the cusp for some time. However, it is about to suffer the cruelest indignity: discovering that Western politicians who promised prosperity have been encouraging the IMF to deliver a leveraged poisoned chalice.

http://www.rt.com/op-edge/imf-ukraine-economic-collapse-301/



Dollar reserve role secure but set to shrink: BIS

Dear Unnamed "Significant Financial Institution": The DOJ Has Some Very Bad News For You

mar 31 14
Looks like someone didn't pay their annual "cost of conducting criminal business" bribe

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-31/dear-unnamed-significant-financial-institution-ny-attorney-general-has-some-bad-news


 High-Speed Traders Rip Investors Off, Michael Lewis Says

By Nick Baker and Sam Mamudi Mar 31, 2014
The U.S. stock market is rigged when high-frequency traders with advanced computers make tens of billions of dollars by jumping in front of investors, according to author Michael Lewis, who spent the past year researching the topic for his new book “Flash Boys.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-30/high-frequency-traders-ripping-off-investors-michael-lewis-says.html

Putin Flushes the US Dollar: Russia’s Gold Ruble Payments System Delinked from Dollar?

mar 31 14
A New Financial System independent from Wall Street and City of London begins to take shape concretely in Russia?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38112.htm


Russia And China Make Another Move That Threatens The Dollar – The Ruble Is Now Backed By Gold And China Continues To Make Deals With Other Countries.

Monetary Blockade Of Russia Begins: JPMorgan Blocks Russian Money Transfer "Under Pretext" Of Sanctions

 China Burns Speculators as $5.5 Billion Lost on Yuan Bets

By Ye Xie and Kyoungwha Kim Apr 1, 2014 4:22 PM GMT+0100
China is succeeding in making its currency less predictable. Investors are paying the price.
Clients of U.S. commercial banks have lost about $2 billion this year on $332 billion of options betting the yuan would appreciate, while Chinese companies lost $3.5 billion on $150 billion wagered on a benchmark forwards contract, according to data compiled by Morgan Stanley and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. in Washington. These contracts, when including bearish bets, account for more than a third of global trading in the Chinese currency.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-01/china-burns-speculators-as-5-5-billion-lost-on-yuan-bets.html


The Currency War Enters Stage 2: Bank Runs!

March 30, 2014
The Currency War, Stage 2, is already Manifest in another Way. Consider that the Economic/Financial Crises of the early 1930s were characterized by Bank Runs.   We are already seeing such runs this year in Crimea, Ukraine and Rural China.

http://www.silverdoctors.com/the-currency-war-enters-stage-2-bank-runs/


 Goldman Loan Talk Propels Biggest Bond Advance: Argentina Credit

By Daniel Cancel Apr 1, 2014
Argentina’s effort to repair ties with overseas investors is starting to yield results in the bond market as the country tries to stem a plunge in foreign-currency reserves.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-01/goldman-loan-talk-propels-biggest-bond-advance-argentina-credit.html

 Goldman Said to Pursue Sale of NYSE Market-Making Unit

By Michael J. Moore Apr 1, 2014
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) is seeking a buyer for its New York Stock Exchange designated market-making business acquired through the 2000 purchase of Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, a person briefed on the matter said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-01/goldman-said-to-pursue-sale-of-nyse-market-making-unit.html


Expensive chaos: Billions of dollars meant for Afghanistan development wasted

Published time: April 01, 2014 12:27
'A lot of fraud' in Afghanistan is hampering any positive results Western money might bring, the head of oversight for US work in Afghanistan believes. RT’s correspondent in Kabul has witnessed some of the misspending.

http://rt.com/news/afghanistan-us-aid-wasted-513/



Albuquerque security forces use tear gas on raging protesters after fatal police shooting

Published time: March 31, 2014
Albuquerque police have violently cracked down on protesters, using tear gas and arresting several demonstrators, after over nine hours of unrest. Hundreds expressed their anger over last week's police shooting that saw a homeless man killed.

http://www.rt.com/usa/albuquerque-police-tear-gas-269/




April 01, 2014 19:25

Bolivian miners clash with police at mining law protest


Bolivian police clashed with groups of independent miners in Cochabamba in central Bolivia on Monday during a protest against a new mining law.

http://rt.com/in-motion/bolivia-miners-clashes-police-597/


China: Dozens Beaten Bloody, up to Ten Possible Deaths at Maoming Anti-PX Protests

Taiwan 500,000 Join National March Against China Trade Pact

Tens of thousands First Nation children died in residential schools

 March 30th, 2014
The death records of tens of thousands of First Nations children who died during the time residential schools were operating in Canada have been handed over to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Several provincial governments gave up the records to the commission, which will now cross-reference the information with student lists to determine who among the children died while in the care of the church-run schools and where they might be buried.

http://westcoastnativenews.com/tens-of-thousands-first-nation-children-died-in-residential-schools/

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