Toxic assets must be removed: RBA's Stevens

Siphoning the toxic assets that plague banks' balance sheets is the first step in overcoming the current crisis, Glenn Stevens, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, has said.

Speaking in Adelaide on Tuesday Stevens said that the so-called 'legacy' assets had to be quarantined "so that the potential for further erosion of their quality, and uncertainty over their value, does not lead to further loss of bank capital and associated confidence problems." The relevant institutions must then

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