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Financial Markets And A Lender Of Last Resort: Lessons From The Founding Of The Federal Reserve
The current crisis raises serious questions about the role of a lender of last resort. This article provides historical insight into its importance. Such a lender is critical to containing ...
Resource Investor - 11:12 a.m. Monday 1st December 2008
Resource Investor - 11:12 a.m. Monday 1st December 2008
Unorthodox Monetary Policy: Central Banks As “Stabilising Speculators”
This article explains the logic behind a radically new form of monetary policy – a new central-bank tool for stabilising the credit cycle. By buying bank stocks and credit instruments ...
Resource Investor - 11:06 a.m. Monday 1st December 2008
Resource Investor - 11:06 a.m. Monday 1st December 2008
More Heart For The Gold Bulls
Thanks mostly to the three-month rise of the dollar against the rand, the rand gold price reached a record high of R8,649/oz last week while the dollar price put on ...
Resource Investor - 11:01 a.m. Monday 1st December 2008
Resource Investor - 11:01 a.m. Monday 1st December 2008
DRDGold Says It Has A Solution To Rising ERPM Water Levels
DRDGold had devised a pumping solution to check rising water levels at its ERPM mine on the East Rand that would address environmental threats, CEO-designate Niël Pretorius said on Friday.
Resource Investor - 10:56 a.m. Monday 1st December 2008
Resource Investor - 10:56 a.m. Monday 1st December 2008
Companies Urged To Join Coal Roadmap
Companies with interests in the coal industry are being urged to participate in a R5.5 million, two-year initiative that will get moving early next year to draw up a plan ...
Resource Investor - 10:54 a.m. Monday 1st December 2008
Resource Investor - 10:54 a.m. Monday 1st December 2008
Lower Crude Oil Price Will Hurt Sasol Profits
Fuel giant Sasol admitted on Friday that falling international prices would put a dent in its profits in the current financial year.
Resource Investor - 10:50 a.m. Monday 1st December 2008
Resource Investor - 10:50 a.m. Monday 1st December 2008
2 days, 10 hours ago
Metorex Has To Raise R922 Million
Diversified minerals group Metorex had to raise R922 million in fresh debt and equity, and restructure about R2 billion of its medium-term debt to complete its flagship Ruashi II copper ...
Resource Investor - midnight Sunday 30th November 2008
Resource Investor - midnight Sunday 30th November 2008
3 days ago
Iceland Faces The Music
Iceland’s meltdown was caused by the rapid emergence of an oversized banking sector and accompanying domestic credit creation, asset bubbles and excessive indebtedness that all this encouraged. This article draws ...
Resource Investor - 10:41 a.m. Saturday 29th November 2008
Resource Investor - 10:41 a.m. Saturday 29th November 2008
The Financial Meltdown Is An Academic Crisis Too
Recent events have not been kind to the modern financial market structure. This article blames the prevailing consensus amongst finance academics for underestimating the irrationality and instability involved. Has the ...
Resource Investor - 10:37 a.m. Saturday 29th November 2008
Resource Investor - 10:37 a.m. Saturday 29th November 2008
Coal Transport By Rail Now More Efficient
The time it takes to load a train with coal at BHP Billiton’s Douglas mine improved significantly when outgoing Transnet CEO Maria Ramos took over the reins.
Resource Investor - 10:27 a.m. Saturday 29th November 2008
Resource Investor - 10:27 a.m. Saturday 29th November 2008
4 days, 6 hours ago
Keaton has "Enough Cash" For Project
Keaton Energy Holdings, which listed on the JSE in April, was holding enough money to develop its most important project, at Delmas in Mpumalanga, to produce 2-million tons of coal ...
Resource Investor - 4 a.m. Friday 28th November 2008
Resource Investor - 4 a.m. Friday 28th November 2008
Delta May Challenge Liberia's Iron-Ore Tender Ruling
South Africa-based minerals company Delta Mining Consolidated is considering an appeal against a ruling that it has to bid again for the Western Cluster iron-ore project in Liberia.
Resource Investor - 3 a.m. Friday 28th November 2008
Resource Investor - 3 a.m. Friday 28th November 2008
Russian Metals Giant Faces Heat In Nigeria
Financial collapse inside Oleg Deripaska’s aluminium empire in Moscow is triggering fresh moves to oust his company from Nigeria and the Republic of Guinea.
Resource Investor - 2 a.m. Friday 28th November 2008
Resource Investor - 2 a.m. Friday 28th November 2008
Fedusa Calls For Moratorium On Job Losses
The Federation of Unions of SA (Fedusa) has called for a moratorium on retrenchments in South Africa (SA), which are expected to drastically increase as a result of the global ...
Resource Investor - 2 a.m. Friday 28th November 2008
Resource Investor - 2 a.m. Friday 28th November 2008
Sasol Sheltered From The Storm
The weaker rand, new plants and its diversified nature will minimise the effect of the global petrochemical industry’s downturn on Sasol, say Standard & Poor’s analysts.
Resource Investor - 1 a.m. Friday 28th November 2008
Resource Investor - 1 a.m. Friday 28th November 2008
