Category: Real Estate
09/17/12
Christian Hott, Terhi Jokipii, Housing Bubbles and Interest Rates, Swiss National Bank, July 2012
Abstract:
"In this paper we assess whether persistently too low interest rates can cause housing bubbles. For a sample of 14 OECD countries, we calcul… more »
05/08/11
09:51:36 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
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Categories: Real Estate, Corporate Finance, Various
Good Batz post, explaining that the implementation of Basel III would not necessarily lead to higher costs for Swiss mortgages and pointing to the fact that banking sector stability is an important element for sustainable GDP growth in a country such as… more »
06/17/10
10:37:54 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 201 words
Categories: Stock Market, Real Estate, Behavioral Finance, Econ/Stat
This is great reading!Swiss National Bank: Financial Stability Report 2009The baseline scenario does not look that bad:"The baseline scenario assumes a further gradual recovery in the economy. Under this scenario, credit risk abroad declines… more »
05/26/08
Bloomberg: UBS Falls After Saying More Mortgage Losses Possible, May 26, 2008
"UBS AG, the European bank hardest hit by the U.S. subprime contagion, fell the most in more than two months in Swiss trading after saying it may face more losses from mort… more »
04/24/08
08:32:59 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 83 words
Categories: Stock Market, Real Estate, Behavioral Finance, Various
Bloomberg: Credit Suisse Posts SF2.15 Billion Loss on Writedowns, April 24, 2008: "Credit Suisse Group, Switzerland's second-biggest bank, reported its first loss in almost five years on 5.3 billion Swiss francs ($5.2 billion) of writedowns linked to det… more »
04/21/08
UBS Issues Shareholder Report on Write-downs (Summary of the report submitted to the Swiss Banking Commission earlier), April 21, 2008
UBS has today released a Shareholder Report dealing with the key facts relating to the bank's losses and remaining… more »
03/24/08
02:11:50 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 16 words
Categories: Stock Market, Real Estate, Econ/Stat
FAZ: "Ich habe keine Zweifel an der Stabilität des Bankensystems", Interview with Josef Ackermann, March 20, 2008 more »
XML Feeds- Expertenkommission "Too big to fail"; Schlussbericht
- TOO BIG TO FAIL UND DIE WIEDERHERSTELLUNG DER MARKTORDNUNG, Boris Zürcher, Avenir Suisse
