US mortgage crisis could cost lenders $100bn, says Fed chief
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Once top-rated bonds slashed to junk status, while default rates among low earners rise rapidly.
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If the dollar continues to slide, foreign investors may dump US stocks and bonds, the Fed chairman says. WASHINGTON - Swollen trade deficits eventually could threaten the economy by souring foreign appetites
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U.S. lenders would have to determine that a borrower can afford a mortgage before making the loan under a Federal Reserve staff proposal on new regulations released on Tuesday.
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Britain may be facing a fall in house prices similar to that experienced in the US, the IMF warns.
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The world's major central banks face the delicate balancing act of trying to ease the global credit crunch sparked by the US subprime home loan crisis while trying to rein in rising inflation.
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming  - The weak housing market could topple the country into a full-blown recession and the Federal Reserve should slash interest rates aggressively, one of the country's most prominent economists warned on Saturday.
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The head of the International Monetary Fund has urged Argentina to agree soon to pay private lenders at least part of the $100 billion in debt the country stopped paying in January 2002.
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Business & money: West's leading thinktank urges Federal Reserve to cut interest rates as housing market crisis deepens.
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The US housing and mortgage downturn is now so acute that a fall in home prices is likely, a key lender warns.
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Australia, one of the best-performing advanced economies, faced looming economic turbulence from the subprime lending meltdown in the United States, Prime Minister John Howard warned on Sunday.
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The dollar suffered a renewed bout of selling after the US Federal Reserve's chairman Alan Greenspan hinted that a further depreciation in the US currency may be necessary to bring the US current account deficit down.
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The weak housing market  could topple the country into a full-blown recession and the  Federal Reserve should slash interest rates aggressively, one  of the country&#39;s most prominent economists warned on Saturday.
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HSBC warns bad debt provisions will be about 20% higher than expected due to problems at its US mortgage business.
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The US economy appears set for a soft landing, the OECD said Wednesday, but it warned that the troubled sub-prime mortgage sector still poses a major risk.
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Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan warns that prompt action is needed to fund pensions for the ageing US population.
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Business & money: Finance chiefs from the G7 warn the global economy will slow down as a result of US mortgage crisis
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The European Central Bank's president called on banks Wednesday to disclose how much they could lose in the wake of a financial crisis that has tightened credit conditions.