Recent Posts Tagged With 'db'

• Fundamental analysis for DAX components.

  Posted on Tuesday January 13th, 2009 at 23:29 in sap, si, az, dt, db, dai, global markets

  German stock exchange is the second biggest in Europe after London in terms of traded volume or market capitalization. Many of German stocks are listed in US on NYSE or on Pink Sheet. It is a bit difficult to find financial of fundamental data for in...

• RBS - Bad timing for takeover.

  Posted on Friday December 12th, 2008 at 06:45 in c, ms, rbs, gs, mer, db, bcs, global markets

  One and half year ago I had been posting about takeover bidding for ABN Ambro from Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Santander Central Hispano SA and Fortis. Finally Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) offered the most, USD 100 bln and won. Now for the same...

• Total subprime writedowns and finacial losses.

  Posted on Sunday October 12th, 2008 at 22:02 in wm, c, ms, rbs, ubs, bac, cs, mer, wb, wfc, db, jpm

  I've already posted two times aggregated sum of writedowns caused by subprime meltdown. It is time to see updated version of losses for major financial institutions. This time I've added column with amount of raised capital and money infusions to res...

• How to invest in gold.

  Posted on Sunday June 15th, 2008 at 05:46 in etf, qqqq, nem, gg, gld, abx, db, iau, dgl, ivv, gdx, dzz

  Falling US dollar and financials turmoils attract more and more attention to commodities investments especially to gold. Not surprisingly SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) has the biggest assets growth among top 10 largest ETF. Year to year the growth is 60%. In...

• ETF market boom. But still behind mutual funds.

  Posted on Wednesday May 28th, 2008 at 13:01 in spy, shy, etf, bsc, qqqq, iwf, gld, db, vti, efa, eem, iwm

  European ETF market is still well behind US. By the end of 2007 assets in European ETF bln vs US $581 bln. Nevertheless European assets grew by 43% last year. In terms of issues 423 vs 601. Even thought ETF is the fastest growing retail investment pr...

• Banking losses in Europe.

  Posted on Wednesday May 14th, 2008 at 12:16 in rbs, ubs, cs, db, global markets

  Credit market turmoils spread all over. I list major 4 major banking cases occurred in Europe due to subprime meltdown.The largest Swiss bank UBS (UBS) writedowns almost 33 bln CHF in last 2 quarters. Shareholders approved capital increase by 15 bln ...

• Structured investments - ETF vs. ETN.

  Posted on Friday May 9th, 2008 at 12:16 in etf, ms, bsc, ubs, cs, db, leh, bcs, eeh

  ETF and ETN are becoming more and more popular products for many investors. Sometimes it is used for investing before "real" stock trading. Both offer many advantages compare to mutual funds. Exchange traded funds or notes you can traded directly on ...

• Total subprime writedowns.

  Posted on Saturday April 19th, 2008 at 09:57 in bnp, wm, c, ms, ncc, rbs, bsc, gs, ubs, nmr, cs, mer

  On the beginning of February I posted article about total credit market losses and write-downs (Total writedowns Feb 2008).On this post I received comment from Cyrille from UK. He informed us about updated losses. Have a look to the progress within 2...