Risk of U.S. recession growing: HSBC
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Investment bank HSBC has revised  downward its forecast for 2007 economic growth and cautioned  that the risk of an outright recession is growing as a retreat  in housing threatens household balance sheets.
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Terrorism has overtaken weak job growth and the budget deficit as the biggest risk to the US economy, and inflation fears are slowly building, a survey of American businesses out on Tuesday showed.
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Terrorism has overtaken weak job  growth and the budget deficit as the biggest risk to the U.S.  economy, and inflation fears are slowly building, a survey of  American businesses out on Tuesday showed.
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Britain and the US are in for a "very severe recession," according to Philippe Jabre. The Geneva-based hedge fund manager, who predicts only a short-lived bounce in stock markets, said that anyone with debt faced problems.
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Problems in the U.S. subprime  mortgage market are unlikely to push the U.S. economy into a  recession over the next 12 months, the top economist for a  leading U.S. business group said on Tuesday.
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U.S. stocks fell on Thursday after a warning about U.S. subprime mortgage lending from Britain's HSBC  sparked a sell-off in financial stocks and investors worried that fallout from the housing slowdown may be far from over.
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San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen said on Monday that financial turmoil had "appreciably" increased risks facing the U.S. economy, but other Fed officials said it was unclear if the economy had taken a turn for the worse.
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Risks to global expansion have  recently increased due to tensions in the U.S. subprime  mortgage market and there are fears of growing spillovers to  other segments, the European Central Bank said on Thursday.
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U.S. and European banks including Citigroup Inc  and HSBC Holdings PLC  are mulling sales of parts of their businesses from branches to entire units in a nod to crunch times ahead, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Thursday.
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The chances of an economic recession are increasing as troubles in the housing sector and credit markets take their toll, according to a survey of economists released on Monday.
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U.S. stocks declined on Thursday, pushed down by declines in banking shares after Britain's HSBC  warned that bad debts from its U.S. mortgage lending business would hurt results.
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Risks of a recession have increased,  but the Federal Reserve must be cautious in supporting the  economy because global forces that have kept inflation in check  are receding, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said on  Monday.
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Risks to global expansion have recently increased due to tensions in the U.S. subprime mortgage market and there are fears of growing spillovers to other segments, the European Central Bank said on Thursday.
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The Bank of England warns of growing risks to the world's banking system as global financial markets expand.
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Global banking giant HSBC Holdings announced on Monday a 35.5-percent surge in bad debts during 2006 owing to increased defaults on home loans by high-risk US borrowers.
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The upsurge in Middle East violence and resulting spike in crude oil prices poses new risks to the US economy, which is already cooling from higher interest rates and other factors, experts say.
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Top economists warn that a recession in the US looks more likely, and urge government action.