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The origin of the word
The term fellowship means the place where the public gather at certain times, traders, bankers, brokers, brokers to transact business. Its origin comes from the name of the place where the debt swaps and securities between various bankers were carried out in the city of Bruges in the 14th century. This city was then an important trade center of money and transactions took place before the house of the family Ter Beurse, hence the name given to the venue in which debt swaps and securities between various bankers.

The installation of the Paris Stock Exchange in Palais Brongniart
In France, the first stock exchange created was that of Lyon in 1540 and in 1563, Paris hosted a “common place for merchants.” In 1724 a royal edict legally instituted with the Paris stock exchange regulations. But it was not until the early nineteenth century that was decided upon and carried out the construction of the Palais Brongniart that the Exchange immediately took up residence. There were listed all goods traded including securities. Expenses stockbrokers were reserved exclusively for men. Only two women were admitted: Sylvie Girardet Roselyne in 1985 and Peter in 1987. For the record, all persons not allowed on the floor, including many women, negotiating the values ​​behind the scenes.
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Bank of Montreal (BMO) announced that it wanted to unlock $ 10 billion in loans for medium and small businesses. The money will be available for the next three years.

With this announcement, BMO hopes to promote its services loan companies. Its objective is to increase its lending to businesses by 25% within three years.

For Canadian banks, the lending industry companies experiencing difficulties right now. Since the end of the recession, companies have tended to sit on their cash favoring spending cuts and debt repayment for investment.
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Investors, prudence, or, directly, for fear, they chose the withdrawal last year. And so,
as a whole, the assets of investment funds fell by 9 percent from a year, which was located in the 132,350 million euros, according to figures released by Savings Corporation.

These figures are not surprising because investors had to face the earthquake and the nuclear crisis in Japan, fear of a relapse into recession, the tightening of the debt crisis in Europe … It was too much.
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Royal Bank has issued a warning Monday about household debt and the overheated property sector.

Household consumption, including real estate, supported our recovery from the recession, economists have stressed the RBC.

But this sector of the economy reached its limits, the household debt rising to a record high of 150.8% of disposable income, have said.
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The managers of bond portfolios are dynamic on the defensive. Sulking financial securities, they carefully monitor the turbulence caused by the crisis of European sovereign debt, reports Morningstar.

Michael McHugh, who manages the Dynamic Canadian Bond Fund, has a defensive position in its portfolio, with a low average duration and a “reasonable cash component.”

“We will increase the duration of the portfolio if there is government action that mitigate the current preference of investors for liquidity and safety,” he told Morningstar Canada . If this happens, the demand for Canadian long bonds should decrease, which will increase yields, bond prices moving inversely to their yields.
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The cash flow management is perhaps the most important issue that a business executive must deal with in order for business to remain competitive. Cash flow represents the activities of a business operation and how this influences the movement of cash within and outside the company in certain periods. This article will address the importance of cash flow, explaining their uses and to emphasize that this component of the financial business plan is designed to predict accurately and present the model of income and expenses in a business to make sure it is able to solve their bills on time.

Firstly it is important to distinguish between cash and profits. A profitable year is still likely to alter the parties concerned at certain points when and if the company is unable to pay its bills in a negative cash flow. Benefits are usually assessed over a longer trading period (1 year) and does not take into account the cash flow depressions. Relations firm with clients based on the exchange of money for a product or service – often the final payment once the product / service is completed with customer satisfaction, known as a consignment contract.
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The Minister of Finance of Canada, Jim Flaherty, said that Europe must first use its own resources to solve its debt crisis before other countries willing to contribute.

Mr. Flaherty made the comment during a visit to Beijing, China. It has increased the pressure on European leaders so that they produce a financial rescue plan and provide resources to support it.

China, South Africa and other countries have indicated they might consider a contribution, but they want to first get a detailed plan. Flaherty says they want Europe to erect a “firewall very hard” to protect their banks and prevent their debt spreads.
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The corporate bond funds in emerging markets with fixed maturities are having increasing success among investors. These are funds where the manager buys and holds in the portfolio to maturity, bonds with strong fundamentals and attractive valuations. This makes the expected IRR is known beforehand.

The fund JPMorgan Fund – Emerging Market Corporate Bond Portfolio Fund is now in its third version. One of his managers, Alain Defis, tells us why these products are still interesting in these times.

At a time like the present one, in which risk aversion is so high, is not this a product that many might consider a bold move?
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While a global recession is likely not to fear the year 2012 may not be rosier economically than has been 2011.

It’s sort of the warning has launched a panel of economists, met yesterday afternoon on the same stage by the Council on Foreign Relations of Montreal (MCFR), taking advantage of the opportunity to begin the transition some arrows and recommendations to the political class.

In wanting to fix things, “the political risk of repeating the mistakes of 1937 (the crisis of 1937) by imposing on people a fiscal tightening and monetary policy too strong and too early”, has also worried the Chief Economist and strategist, Securities, Laurentian Bank of Canada, Carlos Leitao.
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The delinquency rate on the repayment of student loans in the United States reach more than 10% according to several observers, nearly ten times that of credit cards, it said in a recent article in The Economist.

According to the New York Federal Reserve Bank, nearly $ 550 billion have been loaned in the form of student debt, the figure is, however, as the body itself, underestimated. Some estimates predict that total student debt will rise soon to $ 1 trillion in the not too distant future.

Critics of the funding program argue that because of inflation in school costs, as The Economist wrote: “The loan size increases and allows students to pay more school fees to schools where costs are increasing because a lot of money is directed to them. ”
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