Banking, the vicechairman of blackrock, the worlds biggest money manager, which handles more than 5 trillion in assets. After the financial crisis, what have we learned . Philipp we learned that we had too much leverage in the system without any doubt. When you have too much leverage, bad things happen. Not only do they happen, but when they happen, things tend to be amplified. So that is the key take away from it all. We have also learned that this notion of letting the market be totally free, that governments really should get out of the way, that wasnt a good idea. I think what stands out is banks needed much more capital than they had at the time. We had capital levels that were excessively low. I mean in some cases, these banks were leveraged nearly 100 times. And that, to me, has always been the key takeaway. In some ways, i wish we had focused more on the capital issue, and less on all of the other things that have made it into the Regulatory Reform realm. Francine but is there
We meet one of the most recognized names in swiss banking, the vicechairman of blackrock, the worlds biggest money manager, which handles more than 5 trillion in assets. After the financial crisis, what have we learned . Philipp we learned that we had too much leverage in the system without any doubt. When you have too much leverage, bad things happen. Not only do they happen, but when they happen, things tend to be amplified. So that is the key take away from it all. We have also learned that this notion of letting the market be totally free, that governments really should get out of the way, that wasnt a good idea. I think what stands out is banks needed much more capital than they had at the time. We had capital levels that were excessively low. I mean in some cases, these banks were leveraged nearly 100 times. And that, to me, has always been the key takeaway. In some ways, i wish we had focused more on the capital issue, and less on all of the other things that have made it into t
Everybody its time for you oh daily dose of european culture and lifestyle here at euro max lets take a look at whats coming up in the show. Tonight of the stocks we present you the winners of this years european film awards. Talk of the town and new taste sensation arrives in london. And christmas is coming the german town of laotian is a Winter Wonderland. Well lets start off with the european film awards which took place here in berlin over the weekend the german capital hosts europes uncensored the oscars every second year and films from all over the continent competed of the last thirty years of award ceremonies british and french films have scooped up the most honest but this year the three thousand members of the European Film Academy cost the votes different way. European comedy two thousand and seven seeing the square thanks. To thank. God weve come a bit repetitive here this is where. The un doubted star of the evening was swedens the square it took home prizes for best europ
Hunt may be over as conquest says it is no longer in the running. We are on bitcoinwatch j two. Day two. This shows the volume and price action that we saw. 3818. Prices were quite volatile. Volume was highest right at the open. If in doubt as we headed toward u. S. Trading hours. That was further evidenced among bitcoin critics. Demand thate retail is fueling what we have seen. Guest, stephent roach joining us from Yale University. He is calling it a speculative bubble. It is just the first day. Things could get more normalized. Girl lets also betty lets show you the u. S. Market. Nasdaq, the dow, and the all in the green. This is a solid recovery. Investors were much more bullish on some of these sane stocks in tech shares. An unwind of this reversal that we saw a couple weeks ago. We are seeing a mixed session here so far. Were looking at new zealand and australia. The kiwi Still Holding onto solid gains. The Deputy Governor was named the next central bank chief. Seen as a less radi
Investment in that is a good thing. Gemalto shares soar wild ride for siteinhoff shareholders, as the ecb held on to the companys debt despite the accounting scandal. President trumps tax plan faces criticism at home and abroad as a poll Shows Nearly Half of americans oppose the bill, and finance ministers tell the white house that reforms threaten International Agreements good morning its tuesday, december 12th. Lets see how things are opening up one hour into the trading session. Overnight asian indices drifted slightly lower nikkei down 0. 3 the picture is murky for europe. The stoxx 600 is opening up opened up stronger, but swiftly eradicated those gains and is looking down on the day, down 1. 5 lets switch to the indices and look at how individual country indices are doing. The outperformer is the ftse 100. We do have the uk inflation data coming up in about a half hour and the bank of england meeting coming up on thursday. Clues on whether or not the Brexit Development also s wil