Two of the smartest and most successful investors I know have been big buyers of Bank of America stock recently.
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It mattered little to the bank that buyers had never reviewed the prospectus in Germany detailing those risks.
Buyers of Treasurys and bank-insured CDs, for example, are now being enticed by dividend stocks, real estate investment trusts and master limited partnerships.
Some home buyers have tapped into the bank of mom and dad, receiving gifts or loans from family members. (A 2012 National Association of Realtors survey found that 30% of first-time home buyers received funding from relatives for downpayments.) Many others have pooled together funds to pay all-cash, fueling about 30% of all home sales in the past year compared to about 10% a decade ago, according to NAR.
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The ECB is also loth to soil its hands with public debt, though banks flush with central-bank cash are keen buyers of such low-risk assets.
The report, compiled from business done by the the bank itself, said buyers' confidence has also dipped as many see house price inflation rising above their earnings.
Alarmed by the fall of the country's second-biggest chaebol, investors shifted money out of the investment trusts (the other big buyers of bonds) and into bank deposits.
The main supply of cargoes for this comes from Ex-Im Bank-financed lending to buyers of US goods.
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In the past, developers relied on informal sources of finance including advance payments from home buyers and rarely qualified for bank loans.
Although Mr Profumo and Mr Viola both say they want MPS to remain independent, some believe the aim is to bash the bank into shape for potential buyers.
Other potential buyers of Thailand's fifth-largest bank by assets are in the background, the people said.
Foreign investors have been net buyers of gilts since July, according to Bank of England data.
The most profitable transactions usually come when a bank spots an opportunity to match buyers and sellers that nobody else has seen.
Iran's major Asian buyers of crude that were paying into the bank also had to cut up to 20% of their imports in order to win exemptions from these sanctions.
Proprietary trading is harder to defend when it is sheltered by a government guarantee but any bank that acts as a marketmaker between buyers and sellers will end up taking some form of proprietary risk.
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Indeed, all sellers are by definition buyers, so when falling prices enable individuals to bank more of their limited capital, the latter serves as the source of new capital for labor on the way to enhanced production, and rising demand.
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Nitesh Patel, housing economist at the Bank of Scotland, said first-time buyers failing to get a mortgage were affecting the statistics.
At the moment many of the most obvious contenders, such as Australia's Maquarie Bank, are sellers of airports, not buyers (see article).
To ensure the availability of credit for Nano buyers, Tata Motors has tied up with the State Bank of India, the country's largest bank.
The latest round of bubble bursting measures comes after home prices began to show renewed strength despite stricter bank lending to developers and second-home buyers, in particular.
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Aside from the central bank's offer to let the mortgage buyers borrow funds if necessary, the rescue proposals outlined by Treasury Secretary Paulson on Sunday require congressional approval.
Housing sales picked up in the second quarter, with first-time home buyers and those moving up accelerated purchases as the central bank eased policy and local governments lifted some restrictions.
But, says Jamie Nicholson of Warburg Dillon Reed, an investment bank, with car makers and other steel buyers increasingly looking for local suppliers to make just-in-time deliveries, the export potential of high-value products is not good.
Home buyers had a hard time repaying those mortgages, and the bank sold those troubled mortgages to the government.
Research by the Bank of England also showed that first-time buyers face having to find bigger deposits when getting on the property ladder.
What may be more worrying than the inflation in bank prices is the steady pumping up of the buyers' claims about the benefits.
For the buyers, obtaining a higher interest rate than is available from bank deposits, as well as the ability to purchase a yuan-denominated security and to benefit from the appreciation of the Chinese currency that many expect in the coming years are the main attractions of dim sum bonds.
Buyers of Iranian oil and gas must deposit payment in a local bank account and it cannot be transferred abroad.
Intelligent policies out of Washington that force vendors to connect and interoperate (just like our bank ATMs and phones do) and hospitals and physician buyers demanding the same will fuel this revolution.
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Property companies were among the gainers in Hong Kong, after China's central bank said it planned measures to help first-time home buyers.
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