Chinese 'shadow debt' an $18.5 TRILLION market which could COLLAPSE the banking system

Beijing has acknowledged that the colossal volume of complex and potentially risky lending obscured in shadow banking compounds the threat posed by the economy's tremendous accumulation of debt since the global financial crisis. The most infamous WMP, The Chang'an Trust product was one of
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Charts of the best (Turning Point Brands) and worst (CafePress) Louisville-related stock performers in 2017. | Screenshot from Yahoo Finance. Tobacco, horses, bourbon. Good. Banking, pizza, gifts. Bad. That, in a nutshell, tells the story of the stock performance of companies based in — or with
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Public Sector Pension Investment Board increased Fortune Brands Home & Sec In (FBHS) stake by 77.25% reported in 2017Q3 SEC filing. Public Sector Pension Investment Board acquired 13,518 shares as Fortune Brands Home & Sec In (FBHS)'s stock rose 10.95%. The Public Sector Pension
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According to National Lenders, among National Title Companies, NLS provides the most accurate and complete LE & CD quotes.
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My mortgage statement for Jul 2017 says: principal $401; interest $354: Escrow $266. Can I deduct the interest and escrow on my 2017 tax returns. The total annual mortgage payment would be if I added the principal pus interest and escrow and multiply by 12 months. Can I deduct mortgage interest if
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Longtime Houston investors and others new to the market pumped money into high-profile office properties across the region in 2017. E-commerce continued to make an imprint on the local industrial market as Amazon expanded and developers added massive warehouses before securing tenants.
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The Canadian real estate market made headlines plenty of times in 2017 — but what does next year have in store? Will housing prices and affordability continue to dominate the conversation, or will new developments emerge? BuzzBuzzNews has rounded up predictions from industry experts for the
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DEAR MR. MYERS: We bought our home in 2015 with a Federal Housing Administration loan, and then added a new solar-panel system and made some other energy-saving improvements with a PACE loan earlier this year. Now, we've heard that the FHA will no longer insure mortgages that have a
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“Built is solving a significant problem in construction lending, and I'm excited to be leading an incredibly talented technology team that is delivering a definitive solution for managing loans that is quickly becoming the de-facto standard for financial institutions across the country,” Russell said.
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A guarantee agency can be created for lending to agricultural producers, First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Maksym Martyniuk told Interfax-Ukraine. “We did not ask for this postponement [of the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land], but since lawmakers decided so, then in the next
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A Bitcoin evangelist who goes by the moniker “Paychecks” paid nearly 18 Bitcoin for a condo, in what appears to be the first cryptocurrency-only real estate transaction in South Florida. Ivan “Paychecks” Pacheco, who co-founded the cryptocurrency website Bits to Freedom, paid 17.741 Bitcoin, or the
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Many properties were purchased during the crash years from 2007 through 2009, and most were bought at bargain basement prices. Even with improvement costs, home prices have climbed back to pre-recession levels and even higher in many markets. Many investors are sitting on equity that they
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Montgomery County says its tax collectors aren't permitted to accept prepayment for 2018 real estate taxes. The county continues to receive numerous inquiries about prepayment, but the law in Pennsylvania says you can't prepay property taxes until they are assessed, and the timing of assessments
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Airbus SE completed the year doing what it does best: selling its bread-and-butter narrow-body aircraft. The European manufacturer late Thursday firmed up its biggest-ever order from Indigo Partners for 430 A320 aircraft — a contract that was previously announced — while also unveiling a new deal for
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At least 25,800 cases of credit and debit card fraud and those involving internet banking were reported in 2017, Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told Parliament on Friday, PTI reported. In the December quarter, 10,220 cases of card and online banking fraud involving Rs 111.85
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Andrew Adonis quit as Theresa May's infrastructure czar, but not before delivering a blistering verdict on the Brexit policy being pursued by the U.K. prime minister and her Conservative Party. The Labour peer and former transport secretary described Brexit as a “populist and nationalist spasm worthy of
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MOSCOW, December 29. /TASS/. Low mortgage rates, high volumes of new housing commissioning, renovation in Moscow, perpetual privatization across the country and phased abandonment of cooperative housing construction projects are positive preconditions for the housing sector in Russia,
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Posted 17 minutes ago. Details. We need help researching multi-unit apartment buildings in SF and surrounding Bay Area cities. The idea is to find out how many buildings there are, how many units they have, and how many have common lobby/shared space where we could host a wine tasting event.
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On the last day of 2017 the sentiment in the real estate sector is not much different from what it was on its first day. However, hope did sustain the slowdown-hit sector this year as the stakeholders tried to move on from the demonetisation dread and opened the doors to let RERA, GST and an amended
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The iShares MSCI Qatar Capped ETF was heavily affected by the weakness in the banking segment as financials make up 52.8% of QAT's underlying portfolio, followed by industrials 15.5% and real estate 13.6%. The downturn in the residential real estate market was also among the worst hit during the
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