Bankers wary of investment fund rescue effort
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Bankers remain wary of plans to launch a massive investment rescue fund to soften the blow of the U.S. subprime meltdown, saying it could interfere with a market recovery and stall a resolution to the credit crisis.
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Business leaders called for  more leadership to head off an economic downturn on Wednesday,  with some saying an emergency U.S. interest rate cut may have  been over hasty and could fuel a new market bubble.
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Barclays  and Royal Bank of Scotland  have lined up emergency funds of up to $30 billion from the U.S. Federal Reserve to bail out American clients caught up in the global credit crunch, a paper said.
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City fears that the Bank of England's rescue package could herald slide in house prices.
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The recent woes of Citigroup  have encouraged some investment bankers to talk up the chances that the biggest U.S. bank might feel pressure to buy a major U.S. rival, with Wells Fargo & Co.  and even Goldman Sachs Group  touted as potential merger partners.
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With the economy on shaky ground right now, some investors are predicting that private funding for high-tech companies could soon tank. But others disagree vehemently, arguing that investors should not be so quickly scared off.
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Fears grew on Saturday that panic among savers at British bank Northern Rock  will see a run of withdrawals after reports that 1 billion pounds had already been taken out.
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A group of French banks are setting up  an investment fund to bail out small and midsize asset managers  if there is a liquidity shortage, the Wall Street Journal  reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Stock markets are likely to remain volatile for some time dogged by persistent worries about a U.S. recession and the credit crunch, fund managers said on Wednesday, with Fidelity advising investors to keep their cool.
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A month after federal regulators adopted sweeping new rules for mutual fund oversight, fund trustees remain concerned about their ability to serve as watchdogs over fund managers and others who handle investor money, a new survey shows.
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Big banks try to gird for crises as a  matter of course and investors will soon learn how prepared  they were for this summer&#39;s credit crunch.
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Barclays  and Royal Bank of  Scotland  have lined up emergency funds of up to $30  billion from the U.S. Federal Reserve to bail out American  clients caught up in the global credit crunch, a paper said.
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Investors are wary of insurance guarantees for some bonds issued by cities to fund capital projects.
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Some banks expected to contribute to a fund to bail out troubled securitized investment vehicles (SIVs) are losing interest as they doubt the fund's ability to provide a solution to the credit crunch, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Business & money: Bank to see off shareholder revolt but hopes of private-sector rescue dwindle further
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Northern Rock's  180,000 investors next week face a choice between keeping a say in the future of the troubled British bank or hampering the chance of a rescue at a critical time.
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While it might be tempting to go bargain hunting in the mortgage industry, investment advisers donât think that prices yet fully reflect the troubles the industry is likely to see in the coming months.