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Dec 23rd, 2009 |
By Andrew Snyder |
Category: Notes From the Investment Underground
By Andrew Snyder, TodaysFinancialNews.com
Baltimore — (TFN): Well, look at that. There are consequences for our actions. Even in this day and age when it is virtually illegal to step on your neighbor’s toes or wish the corner beggar a Merry Christmas, we are still held responsible for our wrongdoings.
Just ask Balloon Boy’s old man. The trickster just got sentenced to ninety days in jail, with two thirds of the time allocated to a work release program. But even better than his time defending himself from shivs and bathroom sneak attacks is the four-year time span in which it is illegal for him to profit from his eye-popping stunt.
Tags: Beggar, Ben Bernanke, casey research, Derivatives, Dubious Choice, Financial Institutions, financial newsletter, Geithner, Hesitation, House Prices, Housing Bubble, Managing Editor, Merry Christmas, Ninety Days, notes from the investment underground, notes from the underground, Outrageous Stunts, Person Of The Year, Richard Stengel, Shivs, Time Magazine, Time Span, Trickster, Wrong Time
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Dec 23rd, 2009 |
By Tara Useller |
Category: Featured, Financial News
Ben Bernanke is a dubious choice to be named “Person of the Year” by Time magazine. While Time’s Managing Editor Richard Stengel credits him with recognizing early and reacting appropriately to the ongoing financial crisis, in reality, he was wrong time and again with both his predictions and his remedies. Just remember these gems…
Tags: Bear Stearns, Ben Bernanke, Chairman Of The Federal Reserve, Derivatives, Dubious Choice, Economic Crisis, Excessive Risk, Federal Reserve, Financial Institutions, Hesitation, House Prices, Housing Bubble, Managing Editor, Missing Something, Person Of The Year, Richard Stengel, Time Magazine, Unemployment Rate, Unq, Wrong Time
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Apr 23rd, 2009 |
By Martin Hutchinson |
Category: Featured
For frustrated investors looking to justify the ban of credit default swaps (CDS), look no further than last week’s corporate bankruptcies of Canadian newsprint producer AbitibiBowater Inc. (ABWTQ) and U.S. shopping center developer General Growth Properties Inc. (GGP).
Tags: ABWTO, Bond Obligations, Corporate Bankruptcies, Credit Default Swaps, Debt Restructuring, Derivatives, Ggp, GS, LEHMQ, Martin Hutchinson
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May 31st, 2008 |
By John Mauldin |
Category: Stock Market Investing
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced yesterday that they are looking very hard at possibly closing a regulatory loophole that allowed some extremely large commodity index funds to get around position limits.
Tags: commodities, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Commodity Index Funds, Derivatives, Futures, Futures Exchange, Futures Trading Futures Markets, Hedgers, Investment Banks, Swaps
Posted in Stock Market Investing |
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May 15th, 2008 |
By Lynn Carpenter |
Category: Politics & Economics
Falling confidence, weak dollar, wasting employment, backtracking GDP… many things point to a recession, but it’s certainly an odd one.
Tags: credit crisis, Derivatives, Fuel Prices, recession, US economy, Weak Dollar
Posted in Politics & Economics |
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May 7th, 2008 |
By Jack Crooks |
Category: US Dollar & Forex Trading
You’ve probably heard the talking heads on CNBC chattering about this currency play. You’ve probably read about this investment “unwinding” or “being back on” in the Wall Street Journal, or in Bloomberg.
Tags: carry trade, commodities, Currency Markets, Derivatives, Global Currencies, interest rates, market volatility
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Apr 8th, 2008 |
By Andrew Gordon |
Category: International Investing
About a year ago, my father asked if the Merrill Lynch bond he was thinking of investing in was okay. I looked it over … noted its high rating … and said sure. A little less than a year ago, I was speaking to a vice president of Bank of Nova Scotia. I was asking him about the bank’s exposure to the subprime crisis. He said it was negligible.
Tags: , American Banks, Australia, Bank Of Nova Scotia, Credit Crunch, Derivatives, Financial Crisis, Gmac Loans, Merrill Lynch, overseas bonds, portfolios, subprime crisis, Subprime Mortgage Market, World Banks
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