LONDON — No bank likes to take a loss, especially those in Europe that already suffer from a toxic mix of thin capital, troubled financing and weak loan books.
With the old CDO/CLO machine damaged and with banks more cautious about risking their capital, trouble could still lie ahead.An interactive chart allows you to compare how the debt burden varies across 14 countries and to examine different types of borrowing.
Carlyle Capital's troubles began on March 6, when it said it had not been able to meet some margin calls, which snowballed over the next few days as more of its lenders feared it would default.
The Boeing lifted off on a sunny Thursday afternoon from the airport in Cotonou, Benin's commercial capital, and troubles began right away, said Jerome Dandjinou, a senior airport security official.
And then we get to Social Capital, whose troubles appear to be more managerial.
The result of more, smaller, faster companies building and innovating is that the conventional metrics of Venture Capital have trouble finding a foothold.
Once Mr. Hitchens leaves Oxford, "Hitch-22" is off to the races, detailing his early years as a literary journalist in London, his budding friendships with Mr. Amis and Mr. Fenton and Clive James (among many others), and his Zelig-like ability to be in international capitals when trouble was brewing.
As even the pathologically passive Miles can tell, Julia is capital-T Trouble: she's a scary-skinny mix of caustic wit and neurotic vulnerability who smokes and drinks like a Hollywood femme fatale and almost immediately begins calling him at odd hours (both she and Miles are insomniacs).
Banco Popolare's need for fresh capital stems from troubles at its listed leasing division, Banca Italease, in which the bank has a 30.7% stake; it faced massive losses on derivatives in 2007, and has been struggling with a restructuring ever since.
