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- Desk Pilates: Abs and Back
- Your core muscles help you maintain good posture at your desk. Pilates instructor Eleanor Gomez demonstrates some exercises to strengthen your core muscles and help you sit more comfortably.
- Videos 2008-02-06
- Asset-Backed Securities
- Asset-backed securities, called ABS, are bonds or notes backed by financial assets. Typically these assets consist of receivables other than mortgage loans, such credit card receivables, auto loans, manufactured-housing contracts and home-equity loans. ABS differ from most other kinds of bonds in that their creditworthiness which is at the triple-A...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Good News Is No News? The Impact of Credit Rating Changes on the Pricing of Asset-Backed Securities
- The paper assess the impact of credit ratings on the pricing of structured financial products, using a sample of more than 1300 changes in Moody's or Standard and Poor's (S&P) ratings of U.S. asset-backed securities ABS. The study finds that rating downgrades tend to be accompanied by negative returns and...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Term ABS Credit Action Report: December 2004 and Full Year Summary
- This paper highlights credit actions taken by Fitch Ratings in the non mortgage term asset-backed securities ABS market. Improving economic fundamentals and consistent underwriting have led to stabilizing collateral performance and rating volatility. The economy grew at an annual rate of 3.9% in the third quarter, led by continued brisk...
- White papers 2005-01-18
- The Asset-Backed Market in 1999 and the Outlook for 2000
- According to the report, Issuance in the public asset-backed securities ABS market increased marginally in 1999, with volume totaling $196.8 billion, a 0.6% rise over the $195.7 billion issued in 1998. ABS issuance through the first half of 1999 was relatively flat, but strong third-quarter volume helped propel overall issuance...
- White papers 2000-03-01
- Term ABS Credit Action Report: October 2004
- This paper highlights credit actions taken by Fitch Ratings in the non mortgage term asset-backed securities ABS market. Stable to improving collateral performance trends continue to be aided by ongoing signs of economic growth and underwriting. After lackluster employment growth during much of the summer, total non farm payroll employment...
- White papers 2004-11-23
- An Overview of Credit Card Asset-Backed Securities
- Credit card asset-backed securities ABS were first issued in 1987. Since that time, the credit card ABS market has become the primary vehicle by which the card industry funds unsecured loans to consumers. Given the significance of credit card ABS, the Payment Cards Center encourages research in this area and...
- White papers 2002-12-01
- An Investor's Guide to Asset Backed Securities
- According to the report Asset-backed securities, called ABS, are bonds or notes backed by financial assets. Typically these assets consist of receivables other than mortgage loans, such as credit card receivables, auto loans, manufactured-housing contracts and home-equity loans. ABS differ from most other kinds of bonds in that their creditworthiness...
- White papers 2004-08-12
- Term ABS Credit Action Report: November 2004
- This paper highlights credit actions taken by Fitch Ratings in the non mortgage term asset-backed securities ABS market. Improving economic fundamentals and consistent underwriting have led to stabilizing collateral performance and rating volatility. The economy grew at an annual rate of 3.9% in the third quarter, led by continued brisk...
- White papers 2004-12-13
- The Risk in Fixed-Income Hedge Fund Styles
- This paper studies the risk in fixed-income hedge fund styles. Principal component analysis is applied to groups of fixed-income hedge funds to extract common sources of risk and return. These common sources of risk are related to market risk factors, such as changes in interest rate spread and options on...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- Hourly Pay Rates Nudge Up 0.7%: ABS
- Total hourly rates of pay, excluding bonuses, rose 0.7 per cent in the September quarter, seasonally adjusted, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS said on Wednesday.The wage price index rose 3.6 per cent from a year earlier.The median market forecast was for a rise of 0.7 per cent in...
- News items 2009-11-18
- Fewer Australians Occupy Own Houses: ABS
- The proportion of owner-occupied dwellings has fallen during the past 15 years, new data shows.One-third of homes were owned by people who lived in them in 2007-08, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.That represents a drop of about 10 per cent from 1994-95 levels.During the same period, the...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Goods and Services Deficit $1.8b: ABS
- The Australian balance of goods and services was a deficit of $1.849 billion in September, seasonally adjusted, from a deficit of $1.651 billion in August, figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS on Thursday show.During the month, exports were up 5.0 per cent in adjusted terms, while...
- News items 2009-11-05
- Australian House Price Index Up 4.2%
- The Australian house price index rose 4.2 per cent in the September quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.This compares with an unrevised 4.2 per cent rise in the June quarter.In the year to September, the house price index rose 6.2 per cent.The median market forecast was...
- News items 2009-11-02
- The Risk in Fixed-Income Hedge Fund Styles
- This paper studies the risk in fixed-income hedge fund styles. Principal component analysis is applied to groups of fixed-income hedge funds to extract common sources of risk and return. These common sources of risk are related to market risk factors, such as changes in interest rate spreads and options on...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- Caterpillar, Inc. Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions Our first question today is coming from Henry Kirn. Henry Kirn – UBS Securities Good morning, guys. It's Henry Kirn. Jim Owens Good morning, Henry. Henry Kirn – UBS Securities Question on TALF, are you planning to finance through TALF, and could you talk a...
- Earnings calls 2009-04-21
- Caterpillar, Inc. F1Q09 (Qtr End 03/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions Our first question today is coming from Henry Kirn. Henry Kirn – UBS Securities Good morning, guys. It's Henry Kirn. Jim Owens Good morning, Henry. Henry Kirn – UBS Securities Question on TALF, are you planning to finance through TALF, and could you talk a...
- Earnings calls 2009-04-21
- U.S. TALF Program Could Help Foreign Automakers, Too
- The Federal Reserve is thawing out the market for asset-backed securities. The ABS market is a favorite way for auto lenders to raise funds. In turn, the money is used to create new loans. by Jim Henry
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Ford Credit, Nissan to Benefit from Fed's TALF Program
- Investors who buy asset-backed securities from Ford Credit and Nissan Motor Acceptance can now get U.S. government loans via the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF. by Jim Henry
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- International Rectifier Corporation F2Q09 (Qtr End 12/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions Our first question comes from the line of Steve Smigie with Raymond James. Sir, you have the floor. Steve Smigie – Raymond James Great, thank you very much. I was hoping you could go through the cash balance a little bit more. I think you...
- Earnings calls 2009-02-11
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