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Lehman Watch
When Wall Street starts speculating on a company's breakup value and who the likely interested buyers will be of its various parts, that firm must be in serious trouble. That's what's happening to Leh...
Paradigm Change
The drill is the same, with minor variations, at every market meltdown. Fire the head of investment banking, downsize the investment bank (or worse, sell or merge it), issue pink slips, reshuffle what...
Some Thoughts on the Universal Banking Model
UBS and Citigroup, two global banks both reeling from the credit crunch and built around the universal banking model, are interesting studies in contrast. "Our review has clearly revealed the weakness...
Rules, Rules, Rules
Sometime last April, one of my posts pertained to the accounting rules (click here) which Stephen A. Schwarzman, Blackstone Group co-founder, blamed in an interview last Monday for "accentuating and a...
A Returning Boomerang
Not all boomerangs are made the same because some are of the non-returning sort; that's the piece of trivia I learned tonight from the Wikipedia. The type I know, having played with one when I was muc...
Musings on Citi
The Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal both had the same item yesterday on Citigroup though each had a different spin. The former's headline was "Citi Shares Take Another Hit", while the latt...
Bond Insurers: Too Important To Fail?...Last Part
Out of the hospital? Bloomberg reported that Asian stock markets rejoiced today, hitting a three-week high, on the back of the good news that MBIA and Ambac were able to keep their S&P AAA-ratings af...
Random Thoughts On A Busy Past Week
So sorry, Dear Readers. Work and related concerns kept me from blogging for most of last week, reminding me once again about the truth in what Jesus said about masters: “No man can serve two masters...
The Securitization Paradox
I was at the bookstore last weekend, browsing through Stuart B. Levy's book entitled "The Antibiotic Paradox", or the misuse/overuse of the "miracle drugs" to the point that they lose their potency......
The Subprime Contagion: How Extensive?
Metastasis. That was the first word that came to mind when I read the following news from MarketWatch tonight: Lehman Brothers unit facing CDO-related legal action: report By Chris Oliver Last... [[...
Citigroup and HSBC: A Tale Of Two Banks
I actually started writing this last night but was unable to complete it because I realized I needed to do some more research on the subject. I spent the better part of the afternoon today doing just....
Annual Report: Play Of Words
I poked around the Citigroup website after reading this press release, browsing the annual reports published online there. You, too, can access Citigroup's annual reports by clicking the "Investor... ...