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UPDATE: Ambac July $2.47B Unrealized Credit Derivatives Loss
Investment Blog | September 2nd 2008 by Admin
UPDATE: Ambac July $2.47B Unrealized Credit Derivatives Loss Last Update: 9/2/2008 6:21:26 PM (Adds explanation of mark-to-market accounting’s effect on the unrealized loss.) DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Bond insurer Ambac Financial Group Inc. (ABK) read more
UPDATE:Fed Bernanke:More Steps Needed To Ensure Mkt Stability
Investment Blog | July 8th 2008 by Admin
By Michael R. Crittenden Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES ARLINGTON, Va. (Dow Jones)–U.S. financial markets need to be made more resilient and stable, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday, possibly by giving the central bank much broade read more
The Short View: Credit fears resurface [[LEH=BSC]]
Investment Blog | June 25th 2008 by Admin
By Jamie Chisholm Wednesday Jun 25 2008 13:25 Fears are mounting that conditions are set to deteriorate markedly in credit markets. Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH) warned this week that spreads on credit default swaps, which track the cost of insuring cor read more
Monolines Want Out of Contracts
Bad Paper | June 23rd 2008 by bad note
There is a short blurb by Aline van Duyn in the Financial Times reporting that Ambac, MBIA, and FGIC are in talks with Wall Street banks about voiding their obligations under $125 billion of credit default swaps. According to the article, the strateg read more
Feds Investigate AIG
Bad Paper | June 7th 2008 by bad note
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department are reportedly investigating the manner in which American International Group accounted for subprime related derivatives. The agencies are reviewing the manner in which AIG valued cre read more
Moody’s and CDS Counterpary Risk
Bad Paper | May 30th 2008 by bad note
According to Moody’s Investor Services, the sheer size of the Credit Default Swap market in notional terms and its exposure to “credit events” among underlying securities do not, in and of themselves, pose undue concern. However, M read more
Will another large securities firm fail?
Exploit The Market | May 30th 2008 by John Bardacino
A new report from Moody’s Investors Service explains that the biggest systemic risk to the $62 trillion credit-derivatives market is not its size and complexity but the potential failure of a large securities firm or investment bank which is ac read more
US Corporate Bond Risks Subside as Oil Recedes to a One-Week Low
hr: Money | May 28th 2008 by HP Jeschke
Photo credit Alaska in Pictures The falling prices of oil have decreased corporate bonds’ risk protection costs from default, easing up the concern regarding energy costs eating up consumers’ and companies’ cash alike. There has bee read more
George Soros Warns Credit Crisis Far From Over
Investorazzi.com | April 10th 2008 by Christopher E. Hill
This morning, Associated Press reporter Elaine Kurtenbach wrote about billionaire investor George Soros, and his warning that the credit crisis is far from over. Soros, who is busy promoting his new book The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Cr read more
Hedge funds, banks and other financial institutions come under pr…
Euroblogspot | March 9th 2008 by Bleeding Deacon
Tim Bond, head of global asset allocation at Barclays Capital, said: “It’s inflicting heavy losses on the banking system, eroding their capital and reducing their ability to lend. The spread widening is so severe, you’re seeing a rise in borrow read more
Credit markets were thrown into fresh turmoil as the cost of prot…
Euroblogspot | February 21st 2008 by Bleeding Deacon
Credit markets were thrown into fresh turmoil as the cost of protecting the debt of US and European companies against default surged to all-time highs.The sharp jump, which rivalled the sell-off at the height of last summer’s credit market turmoil, read more
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