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2012/05/25 20:26
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... which came from the bank's Chief Investment Office in London, involved a portfolio of Credit default swaps, built on layers of supposedly offsetting bets with credit derivatives tied to...
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2012/05/25 02:43
2012/05/25 02:43
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... hacking away at the government's latest attempt to regulate the murky world of derivatives, Credit default swaps and too big to fail. Rolling Stone recently ran an eye-opening story on Wall...
2012/05/24 23:40
2012/05/24 23:40
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... trend of Argentina’s debt outperforming Venezuela’s. It’s the same story with 10-year Credit default swaps. The spread on Argentina’s CDS has shot up almost 50 per cent this year. It now...
2012/05/24 17:07
2012/05/24 17:07
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Distortions in credit-default swaps prices fueled by JPMorgan Chase & Co. trader Bruno Iksil are pushing investors to exchange-traded funds to make bearish bets on junk bonds. Traders sold short an...
2012/05/24 12:13
2012/05/24 12:13
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... a quarterly basis and posted on the Fed's website, JP Morgan's position in investment-grade Credit default swaps jumped eightfold from a net long of $10 billion notional at the end of 2011 to...
2012/05/24 11:06
2012/05/24 11:06
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... some other institutions. But that was not because they held themselves aloof from the risky credit-default swaps, derivative speculation and other behaviors that created a perfect storm of...
2012/05/24 04:06
2012/05/24 04:06
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... 74.57 yesterday, the weakest since Nov. 28. The cost of insuring Asia-Pacific bonds from default fell, according to traders of credit-default swaps. The Markit iTraxx Asia index of 40...
2012/05/23 13:01
2012/05/23 13:01
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... driven prosperity over the last 50 years. In their view, new techniques — including the credit-default swaps and mortgage-backed securities at the center of the financial crisis — improved...
2012/05/23 10:16
2012/05/23 10:16
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... downgrades, though Swedbank is likely to be spared because the bank has strengthened its credit profile since its latest ratings cut, he said. Swedbank is rated A2 at Moody’s. The cost of...
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2012/05/23 06:02
2012/05/23 06:02
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... simply failed to understand the dynamics of the CDS market," Buchheit said, referring to Credit default swaps, which are used by investors to protect themselves against defaults. Repeated...
2012/05/22 23:01
2012/05/22 23:01
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Mary Eshet said. As another example of Wells Fargo's attention to risk, Sloan said the bank's Credit default swaps portfolio grew too large three years ago, but has now been reduced to about a...
2012/05/22 20:10
2012/05/22 20:10
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... "Under the knowledge of Dimon, the JPM investment office sold massive amounts of CDS (credit-default swap) premium on large U.S. corporations in 2011. Like AIG, they accumulated a large...
2012/05/22 19:53
2012/05/22 19:53
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Addiction counselors tell their clients, "We can't help you until you admit you have a problem." It's time for American financial institutions to admit they have a gambling problem. JPMorgan Chase &...
2012/05/22 15:09
2012/05/22 15:09
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... first such idea: Abolish Mortgage-Backed Securities (and Offspring) CDOs and Credit default swaps don't kill financial systems, mortgages kill financial systems. There has been...
2012/05/22 15:06
2012/05/22 15:06
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Tobin) and banking experts (Lowell Bryan of McKinsey). A less radical idea would be to eliminate Credit default swaps over time (they are too embedded in current practice to ban them; banks need to...
2012/05/22 01:16
2012/05/22 01:16
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... anyone would want to have.” BlueCrest, based in Geneva, manages $32 billion. Platt said a credit fund run by his firm took a “small” position against JPMorgan after finding “anomalies” in...
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2012/05/21 21:55
2012/05/21 21:55
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Mike Smith last week, when he said that European funding markets were “essentially closed”. Credit default swap spreads ― a proxy for wholesale funding costs ― on Australian banks' senior...
2012/05/21 18:01
2012/05/21 18:01
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... peddled were the so-called hedge funds, which engaged in "hedging", a form of reducing risks. Credit-default swaps were also sold as a form of reducing risk. On top of this the whole subprime...
2012/05/21 14:22
2012/05/21 14:22
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... devoid of risk, at least as compared with equities. Municipal defaults, sovereign-debt Credit default swaps and Greek and Spanish yields should convince you that fixed income now runs the...
2012/05/21 08:42
2012/05/21 08:42
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... make). In effect, the “credit guarantee” company had sold insurance — otherwise known as a Credit default swap (CDS) — to the bank for a risky loan, with the borrower forking over the...