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- Did CDS Cause All the World's Ills? Confronting the Crisis Backlash
- Credit Trader submits: Outside of penning diatribes against [[AIG]] bonuses, blaming CDS for the current crisis has been the most popular topic of late. Perhaps we can ascribe this to the fact that “credit” often goes alongside “crisis” in the press or the fact that AIG was caught with...
- External links 2009-03-23
- My Response to Soros' Views of CDS
- Credit Trader submits: In his latest WSJ post, George Soros outlines why he thinks “naked shorting” i.e. buying of CDS without a bond position, should be banned. My commentary to his points are in italics below: by Credit Trader
- External links 2009-03-26
- CDS Recoveries: Down and Out
- Credit Trader submits: “Taken out to the woodshed and shot” is a phrase you often hear from CDS traders when one of their names blows up. The same can easily apply for recovery rates in the last few months across the credit markets click on chart to enlarge. ...
- External links 2009-03-28
- The Wild and Crazy World of Self-Referenced Credit
- Credit Trader submits: Bloomberg is out with an article describing how Milan city officials used derivatives to bet on the default of the Italian government. While we wait for the sounds of knee caps being broken, let’s take a deep breath and think about what may be going on...
- External links 2009-05-12
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- Commerzbank hires Shottes to US credit trading team.
- Byline: Vivek Ahuja Commerzbank has hired Paul Shottes as it strives to build its New York credit derivatives team.Shottes joins the German bank's US office as a credit trader, focusing on single-name credit trading in the chemicals, paper, defence, energy and real estate investment...
- Research articles 2003-06-13
- Credit Suisse Trader Is Remembered
- Michael Patrick Beier, the courageous Credit Suisse First Boston trader who suffered from ALS and battled it to his last breath, has died at age 39. Michael Patrick Beier, the courageous Credit Suisse First Boston trader who suffered from ALS and battled it to his last breath, has died...
- Research articles 2003-06-01
- Credit Suisse Trader Is Remembered.(Brief Article)
- Michael Patrick Beier, the courageous Credit Suisse First Boston trader who suffered from ALS and battled it to his last breath, has died at age 39. Michael Patrick Beier, the courageous Credit Suisse First Boston trader who suffered from ALS and battled it to...
- Research articles 2003-06-01
- Obama Versus the Credit Card Companies
- Trader Mark submits: Hmm, this should be an interesting showdown. As a quasi-liberal, libertarian- leaning figment of your blogging imagination, a part of me simply wants extreme disclosure in 40 sized font on these credit card offers, whereas the other part of me thinks it's abusive for people who...
- External links 2009-04-20
- Consumer Confidence Drops, Merrill Lynch Suspends Trader
- A rundown of today's financial sector news: The Conference Board released its Consumer Confidence Index for May, which is down to 57.2 from April's 62.8. The downward trend corroborates the decline in consumer sentiment reported by the Reuters/University of Michigan consumer survey released earlier this month. This...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Trader Classified Media: Senior Bank Credit Facility - Syndication Completed Successfully
- Business Editors AMSTERDAM, Netherlands--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 8, 2003 Trader Classified Media N.V., a leader in classified advertising, announces today the successful completion of its bank syndication arrangements. New Senior Bank Financing Trader Classified Media completed on 30th September 2002 a new senior bank credit facility that provides...
- Research articles 2003-01-08
- Russian roulette.(Credit Suisse First Boston proposes Russian bond fund)(Brief Article)
- MOSCOW has proved the graveyard of many a banker of late-sometimes literally. Financially, at least, no foreign bank has had a worse time of it than Credit Suisse First Boston. As the biggest trader in the Russian bond market, it also took the larges MOSCOW has...
- Research articles 1999-03-20
- THE GRAPEVINE
- Smith Barney Inc. last week fired Barry Sloane, the head of its commercial and residential MBS operations. Another Smith Barney executive, Andy Springer, was named senior credit trader and will assume some of Sloane's duties. Sloane, who could not be rSmith Barney Inc. last week fired Barry...
- Research articles 1995-07-17
- Broker 'turned blind eye' to rogue copper trader, court told
- LONDON AFP — French broker Credit Lyonnais Rouse was accused in a London court of dishonestly assisting, or turning a blind eye to, the activities of rogue trader Yasuo Hamanaka, who racked up losses of 2.6 billion dollars at his former employer, Sumitomo Corp. The claim was made by...
- Research articles 2004-10-07
- New Government Policy: Tax Credit as Mortgage Down Payment
- Trader Mark submits: I've become numb a long time ago, but seeing these programs and "solutions" one after the other is simply.... I don't have words. Just enjoy - last week we mentioned how some states had created a work around to use the tax rebate (i.e....
- External links 2009-05-14
- Strong Credit Suisse earnings get lukewarm response
- By Lisa Jucca of Reuters ZURICH - Credit Suisse Group AG's forecast-beating third-quarter earnings were given a tepid reception by investors, wary that the bank's fat margins in investment banking could tempt back competitors. The Swiss bank, which emerged as a winner from the credit crisis, managing without state aid,...
- News items 2009-10-22
- Trader Classified Media: New Senior Bank Financing and Purchase of Australian Minority Interests
- Business Editors AMSTERDAM, Netherlands--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 8, 2002 Trader Classified Media N.V. (NASDAQ:TRDR), a leader in classified advertising, announced today a new senior bank financing and the purchase of Australian minority interests. New Senior Bank Financing Trader Classified Media completed on 30th September 2002 a new senior...
- Research articles 2002-10-08
- Citigroup Takes $8 Bln in Credit Losses
- By Dan Wilchins NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Citigroup C posted a quarterly per-share loss as it suffered $8 billion (4 billion pounds) of credit losses, raising questions about when the bank can return to sustained profitability. Analysts had expected Citigroup bank to post an even bigger loss, but its...
- News items 2009-10-15
- Wings Over Wall Street: One man's stubborn battle against a fatal disease.(Credit Suisse First Boston OTC trading department director Michael Patrick Beier has Amyotrophic Lateral Schlerosis)(Biography)
- He is a trader and he is competitive. He is an inspiration to his fellow professionals and not because he trades technology stocks, which is a very trying business these days. He is a trader and he is competitive. He is an inspiration to his...
- Research articles 2002-08-01
- Forget Buy-and-Hold; It's a Trader's Market
- Andrew Hart submits: October remains to be the scariest month in stocks since the onset of the Great Depression, the 1987 Crash, and now the 2008 Credit Crisis. With such historic stock market events we need a better perspective for the months ahead. Based on history, are we more or...
- External links 2008-11-02
- AIG: The Fed Is a Really Bad Trader
- The LFB submits: Now that the full details regarding the Fed's new plan for AIG AIG have come to light, the only conclusion one could draw from this is that the Fed is a bad trader. Really bad. When its statement regarding the AIG plan was released early Monday morning,...
- External links 2008-11-13
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