Big banks boom in sub-prime turmoil

Story date: 2007-08-28 09:54:00
Added on: 2007-08-30 06:35:15

The Australian - ... household borrowing as brokerage firms, hedge funds and private equity groups used funding from the capital markets to get into traditional banking businesses, such as mortgages and corporate loans. That trend could now be about to reverse. "What the ...


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