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Der jüngste Prüfbericht wirft ein dunkles Licht auf die damalige Bankführung: Offenbar war Lehman Brothers schon Monate vor der eigentlichen Insolvenz mehr als nur schwer angeschlagen. Mit Bilanztricks soll das Wall-Street-Institut seine Probleme kaschiert haben - die Grundlage für die bislang schwersten Marktturbulenzen in der Geschichte der Weltwirtschaft.
Die US-Investmentbank Lehman Brothers ist ar einem Prüfbericht zufolge bereits Wochen vor ihrem Kollaps im September 2008 zahlungsunfähig gewesen. Das Geldhaus habe zudem Buchungstricks angewendet, heißt es in dem veröffentlichten 2200 Seiten starkem Bericht eines gerichtlich bestellten Prüfers. So sei mit einem Trick der Eindruck erweckt worden, dass Lehman seinen Verschuldungsgrad im Jahr 2008 verringerte. Tatsächlich sei dies jedoch nicht der Fall gewesen, was zum Zusammenbruch der Bank beigetragen habe.
Dennoch wirft der Prüfer Anton Valukas von der Anwaltskanzlei Jenner & Block dem Management der Bank kein umfassendes Fehlverhalten vor. Zwar könne man einige Entscheidungen des Managements rückblickend infrage stellen und die Methoden zur Bewertung der Vermögenswerte seien möglicherweise unzulänglich gewesen, heißt es in dem Bericht. Die Verantwortlichen seien jedoch größtenteils nicht haftbar für den Zusammenbruch der Bank.
Das Ergebnis der mehr als einjährigen Recherche des Rechtsanwalts wirft nicht nur ein schlechtes Licht auf die damalige Bankführung, sondern auch auf die Buchprüfer von Ernst & Young. Für seinen Bericht sichtete Valukas zusammen mit seinem Stab mehrere Mio. Dokumente und führte zahlreiche Interviews.
Die Pleite von Lehman Brothers im September 2008 gilt als Höhepunkt der Finanzkrise. Ab diesem Zeitpunkt verloren die Banken jegliches Vertrauen untereinander. Nur das massive Eingreifen der Regierungen hielt die weltweiten Märkte notdürftig am Laufen. Die Zeche zahlen die Bürger bis heute.
Lehman Brothers hatte sich wie viele andere Finanzunternehmen mit kompliziert konstruierten Hypothekenpapieren verspekuliert. Bereits ein Jahr vor dem Zusammenbruch deuteten sich die Probleme auf den globalen Märkten an und wuchsen dann rapide. Die Banken fingen an, sich zu misstrauen.
Am Ende, auch das stellte Valukas fest, verlangten unter anderem die Citigroup und JP Morgan von Lehman Brothers derart hohe Sicherheiten für neue Kredite, dass die Investmentbank kapitulieren musste. Ihr ging das Geld aus. Lehman Brothers wurde im Eilverfahren zerschlagen, übrig blieben Zehntausende Geschädigte, darunter auch viele deutsche Kleinanleger.
Valukas war bereits im Januar vergangenen Jahres von einem Gericht als Prüfer in dem Fall bestellt worden. Er sollte nach Hinweisen auf Betrug, Unredlichkeit und Fehlverhalten suchen. Der Bericht war im Februar fertig gestellt worden und wurde am Vortag vom zuständigen Insolvenzrichter freigegeben.
Quelle: rts/dpa
China will find it tough to strike the right balance between cooling lending while sustaining growth in the world's third-largest economy, a senior central bank official said in remarks published on Friday.
The People's Bank of China has increased required reserves twice this year, and economists suspect a third rise is imminent after output and inflation data on Thursday showed an economy with considerable momentum and mounting price pressures.
But officials have shied away from drastic tightening for fear that fragile global demand could still sap the economy. Most economists do no not expect interest rates to rise until the second quarter at the earliest.
"Excessive liquidity and lending are detrimental to the balanced, healthy and sustainable development of the national economy, but there are complex balances and challenges in timing, rhythm and intensity and in the choice of policy tools," Guo Qingping, an assistant governor of the People's Bank of China, told the Financial News.
"In the course of slowing monetary and credit growth, it will be very difficult to hold the right focus," Guo told the Chinese-language newspaper, which is published by the central bank.
In separate comments to Japan's Nikkei business daily, Guo said the central bank aimed to forestall runaway increases in asset prices this year while providing enough liquidity to support relatively brisk economic growth.
"But at the same time, the flexibility and accuracy of policy needs to be increased," the Nikkei quoted Guo as telling the paper recently in written comments.
As such, he said, the central bank would stick to the "appropriately accommodative" monetary policy it adopted in late 2008 to counter the global downturn -- a stance reaffirmed last Friday by Premier Wen Jiabao in his annual address to parliament.
Lending
As part of its efforts to gradually withdraw the exceptional stimulus it has provided, the central bank has lowered this year's target for new lending to 7.5 trillion yuan ($1.1 trillion) from last year's record 9.6 trillion yuan.
Banks rushed to make use of the new quota at the start of the year, as they typically do, prompting the PBOC and the banking regulator to order lenders to slow down.
Figures released on Thursday seemed to show their arm-twisting was working. Net new lending halved in February to 700 billion yuan.
But the total was still high given it was a holiday-shortened month and the proceeds of a lot of last year's loans are still on deposit with banks, ready for companies to use.
Guo said that the "situation of monetary and credit growth must certainly turn around".
At the same time as the central bank gradually applies the brakes to money and credit growth, Guo said policymakers would deal selectively with local government-backed projects, continuing to support some while curtailing credit to others.
"A few agreements (for projects) may be cancelled," he said.
Guo said he was not optimistic that Chinese banks could continue reducing the proportion of bad loans on their books.
"Credit growth has been rapid, and the proportion of medium- and long-term loans is high, therefore problems with the quality of lending won't be exposed in the short-term but are a latent risk in the medium to long-term," he said.
http://www.ariva.de/forum/Germany-Europas-Zugpferd-405076
In einem seperaten Thread, da ich hier keine politische Diskussion lostreten wollte.
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Svartur, ich würde Dir ein dreifaches "gut analysiert" geben, wenn es ginge. Ich habe eine nahe Beobachterrolle und komme zu sehr vergleichbaren Rückschlüssen.
Die Banken drehen ein immens großes Rad, in der Hoffnung, daß Instis aufspringen, Versicherungen, private usw. und ihnen die Aktien wieder abnehmen. An den Umsätzen sehen wir aber, daß dies nicht geschieht,
Stimmt - in der Tat - die meisten institutionellen Anleger sind ausserhalb des Aktienmarktes investiert - es wird der eine oder andere Dividendenwert gekauft damit es nicht langweilig wird, aber im Großen und Ganzen verlaufen die ganzen Kaufwünsche im Sande. Beachtung finden die Kapitalerhöhungen die mit hohen Abschlägen zu Kursen platziert werden können. Die Aktienkurse aber geben aufgrund von Stabilisierungsmaßnahmen der begleitenden Banken nicht nach. Ein Trauerspiel. aber, wie Du richtig erkennst - alles möglich bei den kaum vorhandenen Umsätzen.
Als normaler Mensch ist man geneigt denen einen Vogel zu zeigen und sich angewidert abzuwenden.
Es sei denn, man ist ein erfolgreicher DayTrader ;-)) Scherz beiseite, ich denke man ist in der Tat bekloppt bei den ganzen Aktionen der Börse mitzumachen. Wenn ich mir nur die ganzen Zertifikate anschaue und welche Gewinnmargen so ein Teil abwirft - und am Ende merken die Aus- bzw. weggeknockten nicht mal dass sie verarscht wurden. Da frage ich mich, wie blöd muss man sein (aber das ist jetzt ein anderes Thema).
Flat bleiben, nichts tun - es wird schon der Zeitpunkt kommen, wann die "Buchgewinne" auch eingefahren werden müssen. Dann gibt es ein Fiasko - das steht schon mal sicher.
I.d.S. gute Zeit noch.
Contrade
anhalten, wie wir ihn uns leisten können. Wir stecken in der Sackgasse.
Die Alternative wäre Konsolidierung, starke Rezession, Reformen. Davor haben Politiker Angst, wer möchte schon das griechische Phänomen vor der eigenen Haustüre haben.
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U.S. President Barack Obama plans to nominate San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen, a respected policy dove, to be vice chairman of the central bank, a CNBC source has confirmed.
Yellen would replace Donald Kohn, a 40-year veteran of the Fed who announced earlier this month that he would retire on June 23. The nomination for the four-year term as the Fed's No. 2 would be subject to Senate approval.
She is considered one of the most "dovish" members of the central bank's policymakers, meaning she is seen to lean toward policies that will boost growth and promote employment rather than those aimed at keeping inflation at bay.
Yellen, reached by telephone, declined to comment, as did the U.S. Treasury Department. The White House did not respond to requests for comment.
"The FOMC top brass is starting to look like the dream team," said Chris Rupkey of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, referring to the Fed's interest rate-setting panel.
"As bad as it looked to lose Fed Vice Chairman Kohn with his decades of experience, the FOMC is going to pick up where it left off with the experience and quiet wisdom," he said.
Kohn's impending departure means that Obama has three seats to fill on the seven-member board of the U.S. central bank. The source said top candidates had been identified for each of the three spots, but all selections, including Yellen's, are subject to completion of a vetting process.
The source said the administration also was vetting a number of other candidates in case any of its top picks fell through.
Bloomberg, which first reported that Yellen was Obama's pick, cited a source as saying Sarah Bloom Raskin, the top banking regulator for the state of Maryland, was under consideration for one of the Fed board seats.
Raskin, who has been Maryland's commissioner of banking regulation, is a lawyer who previously worked at Promontory Financial Group, the Senate Banking Committee, and the New York Fed.
Yellen was chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton between 1997 and 1999 and a Fed governor between 1994 and 1997.
A top-flight economist, she has warned of "undesirably low" inflation and the prospect of a prolonged, sluggish recovery for the U.S. economy.
"Even with my moderate growth forecast, the economy will be operating well below its potential for several years," Yellen said on Feb. 22. "If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that."
Yellen's experience as a regional Fed president positions her well to bridge divides among the system's 12 banks around the country and the board in Washington.
Policymakers are currently split among those who think persistently high unemployment calls for a prolonged period of easy money and those who worry that Fed's massive cash infusion into the financial system poses a dangerous inflation risk if the Fed does not soon begin to pull back reserves.
To forge a consensus, Yellen will have to set aside some of her most growth and employment friendly inclinations.
"Given the fact Yellen is seen as most dovish among FOMC members, the market is likely to think that the Fed may take more time until it decides to raise interest rates," said Yoshio Takahashi, a fixed-income strategist at Barclays Capital in Tokyo.
However, she may step into the consensus building role expected of the vice chair, Takahashi said.
Given the current popular backlash against banks after reckless lending triggered the worst financial crisis in generations, Obama's selections to the board are likely to be from outside the financial services industry.
Among other names cited as possible candidates for the third vacancy are Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Peter Diamond, Harvard economists Jeremy Stein and David Scharfstein, and Johns Hopkins University economist Laurence Ball.
U.S. consumer sentiment declined slightly in early March, with Americans less positive about the job outlook, a survey released Friday showed.
The reading, however, stayed close to its six-month average, and was significantly above the year-ago level, according to Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's Surveys of Consumers.
The preliminary March reading for the surveys' overall index on consumer sentiment was 72.5, down from 73.6 where it ended in February, and below the 73.6 forecast by analysts polled by Reuters.
In early March, consumers were expecting no change in the national rate of unemployment, which stands at 9.7 percent, for the rest of 2010, and were losing confidence in help from government economic policies.
"In recent months there has been a noticeable loss of confidence in current economic policies," Richard Curtin, director of the surveys, said in a statement.
The March reading was just a tad below the six-month average of 72, and up strongly from 57.3 in March 2009.
The consumer survey data followed a report from the U.S. government on Friday showing retail sales rose unexpectedly in February, which analysts viewed as underscoring hopes for a sustainable economic recovery.
The survey's gauge of current economic conditions fell to 80.8 from February's final reading of 81.8. That was also down from analysts' forecast for 82.0.
The survey's barometer of consumer expectations weakened to 67.2 at the beginning of March from 68.4 in February. It fell short of the 68.0 forecast by analysts.
The index of consumers' 12-month economic outlook fell to 74 from 80 in February.
The survey's 1-year inflation expectation index rose to 2.8 in early March from 2.7 in February, while the five-to-10-year inflation measure was steady at 2.7 from the month before.
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