All of that hot money meant that bankers were competing to lend to filmmakers.
Kudrin argued that Russia would see significant hot money inflows in 2011, and he was right.
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If "hot money" flows reverse and funds illicitly leave China, the consequences could be severe.
Excessive bullish sentiment for U.S. stocks suggest that a lot of hot money is already invested.
But inflation is now an issue and hot money is part of that issue.
The stockmarket, which continues to plunge (see article), is no home for hot money.
If the fins catch any sustain bid at all, hot money will flow into the better names.
Hot money from abroad also chases the Chinese currency, as columnist Steve Hanke observes on page 102.
They also attract hot money from abroad, which has helped to make the real uncomfortably strong, hurting exporters.
Since October, that concern has become acute as the inward flow has reversed, with hot money now leaving China.
While IndyMac had a couple of branches, by and large their deposits came from advertising, much more hot money.
Everything goes up as the hot money gets passed from hand to hand.
But financial systems can be liberalised a lot without letting in hot money.
The dynamics are more akin to international hot money flows that can overwhelm the shallow capital markets of developing economies.
Some of the hot money that poured out of hedge funds could easily return at the first sign of stability.
The prime exception is China, where hot money continues to pour in and where the current account has a massive surplus.
Then people around the globe notice the excitement, and hot money comes flooding in to push prices up to crazy levels.
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There is growing anecdotal evidence of hot money leaving China, and the uptick has been corroborated by those who monitor global financial flows.
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Because analysts have been looking at the balance of fund flows, outbound hot money could be a lot larger than most estimates put it.
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It is not so much capital flight that raises legitimate worry (although some despots remain haunted by that) as it is hot money coming in.
Its stock market may have sucked in too much hot money and heated up to discounting growth for the next three years, a dangerous situation.
Surely all that hot money has supercharged the demand for oil?
The howls and hand-wringing over global capitalism and its trapdoors of "hot money, " hedge fund hocus-pocus and derivative meltdowns have won headlines for shouters like George Soros.
Countries that take only their own interests into account (such places do exist, alas) may impose controls that are too strict, diverting cascades of hot money elsewhere.
The resulting hot money flows made Chinese policymakers especially cautious.
Already, some believe that hot money exiting the country helps explain why this year Chinese banks have increased lending at a much slower pace than most observers expected.
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In short, hot money is fleeing low interest rates in the U.S. and Western Europe for China, India, South Korea and other nations where the returns are much higher.
China's interest rates are below the inflation rate, but the PBOC fears that higher rates would attract yet more hot money and so end up adding to inflationary pressures.
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