Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.
Learn moreAsset encumbrance ratios are becoming a fashionable metric when it comes to assessing the health of banks.
On that note, Société Générale’s cross-asset research group provides a nice little break-down on Monday. While SocGen don’t believe that asset encumbrance is a major problem for any bank yet, they do recognise that the issue is becoming important on account of banks’ recourse to secured funding, and one likely to be picked up on by ratings agencies soon. Read more
| Market | Last price | Today's change |
52 week high |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTSE 100 Index: FSI As of May 21 2013 12:54 |
6,767 | +11.73 | +0.2% | 6,771 |
| FTSEurofirst 300 Index: FSI As of May 21 2013 12:40 |
1,247 | -5.15 | -0.4% | 1,252 |
| S&P 500 INDEX: WCB As of May 20 2013 05:00 |
1,666 | -1.18 | -0.1% | 1,673 |
| Euro/US Dollar FX Spot Rate As of May 21 2013 07:19 |
1.28 | 0.00 | -0.3% | 1.37 |
| ICE Brent Crude Oil Front Month: IEU As of May 21 2013 12:54 |
104.14 | -0.66 | -0.6% | 119.17 |
| COMEX GOLD 1 FUTURES CHAIN Front Mon: CMX As of May 21 2013 10:33 |
1,377 | -7.30 | -0.5% | 1,795 |
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