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The SEC's 'Sacred Cow' List: Where Are WaMu and Wachovia?
Mark McHugh submits: When I heard that the SEC was going to shake its proverbial finger at short sellers and threaten to do its job, I didn’t exactly rush to see who was on the “Sacred Cow” list. No brainer, right? Big regional and money center banks, the shakiest of...
Mother of All Short Squeezes?
Matt Blackman submits: Tuesday’s action by the SEC in amending Regulation Short Sales RegSHO listed 19 banks and financial companies for which naked shorting was effectively banned for 30 days. Such a limit was long overdue but why limit the restriction to just 19 companies and just 30 days? ...
Short Sales: SEC Turns Back the Clock to 1931
This past week, the SEC issued an emergency order prohibiting naked short selling in 19 financial stocks, including Fannie Mae FNM, Freddie Mac FRE, Lehman Brothers LEH and other names in the news. Beginning on Monday (July 21), it won’t be enough to make a good-faith effort to locate...
Selective Enforcement: (Re)Introducing Regulation SHO
Michael Shedlock submits: This is a followup to posts SEC Restricts Shorting 19 Financial Stocks and Tossed To The Dogs?I hinted at this before but I am going to spell it out explicitly in response to several questions I have received. There is already a restriction on naked short...
SEC Shorting Restrictions: Are Some Banks Being Set Up?
Michael Shedlock submits: While pondering SEC Restricts Shorting 19 Financial Stocks I could not help but notice the financial institutions conspicuously absent from the ruling.With that in mind let's recap the list of shorting curbs placed by the SEC. by Michael Shedlock
U.S. Bank Default Risk Rises; European Bank Default Risk Falls
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: As global financial stocks have fallen significantly over the last week, you would think default risk has risen as well. However, while default risk has risen significantly for U.S. banks and brokers, it has actually fallen for the European firms. Below we highlight...
Paramount Pictures Is Feeling the Credit Crunch
Julia Boorstin submits: The credit crunch is taking its toll on Hollywood. Deutsche Bank's DB $450 million film financing deal with Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom VIA is falling through. The financing deal was meant to pay for up to 30 films, with Deutsche Bank providing a 25...
SEC Issues Emergency Rule to Curb Short Sales
By Rachelle Younglai and Emily Chasan WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. securities regulators issued an emergency rule on Tuesday to limit certain types of short selling in major financial firms, including Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie Mac FRE. The rule is the latest...
Wachovia, Deutsche Bank's $1B Syndicated Slipup
Vernon Hill submits: In the olden days of the lending business, things were simple: a bank would underwrite a loan to a financially sound borrower, hold the loan on its balance sheet, and the borrower would repay it at an interest rate high enough to compensate the bank for the...
RCom seeks to raise USD5bn for MTN takeover - Rumour
Reliance Communications RCom is talking to a number of banks in a bid to raise between USD5bn and USD6bn for its planned MTN takeover, reports India's The Economic Times. The move comes as rival Reliance Industries initiates talks with RCom, regarding claims that it has the right of refusal...
European Banks Need to Raise Up to $141 Billion: Goldman
(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs said the European banks sector needs to raise about 60 billion to 90 billion euros ($94 to $141 billion), or withhold one year of dividends, to reach an aggregate Tier I ratio of 9 percent -- a level achieved...
Deutsche Bank Downgrades Interpublic in Fear of Ad Downturn
Via Tribble Ad Agency, news today that Deutsche Bank analyst Matt Chesler downgraded his recommendation on the ad giant Interpublic's stock from a "Buy" to a "Hold." From the the StreetInsider article: The firm said, "While IPG has achieved peer-level organic growth and is on its way to performing...
Carpetright Warns on Profit
By Dan Lalor LONDON (Reuters UK) - Carpetright CATVU chairman Philip Harris, a 50-year veteran of carpet selling, said the coming year was set to be one of the most difficult he had seen, after the retailer posted an 11 percent fall in annual profit. Carpetright...
Writedowns and Capital Raised by Financial Firms
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: From data compiled by Bloomberg, financial firms have now written down $399 billion, with much more expected in the coming weeks. On the flip side, they have raised a total of $322 billion in new capital. Below we highlight the writedowns...
Deutsche Bank sells stake in France's Atos
Deutsche Bank has sold most of its 5% stake in French IT firm Atos Origin, reports Reuters quoting a regulatory filing. The German bank now controls just 0.41% of Atos, which has a market cap of EUR2.6bn (USD4bn). The announcement comes only a week after French PE firm PAI...
Bank and Broker Default Risk
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Below we provide the current default risk of the major banks and brokers around the world as measured by their 5-year credit default swaps (this is the one-year cost to insure the company's bonds over the next five years). As shown, Lehman's LEH...
A Bubbling Cauldron: Eurostoxx Faces Witch's Hat Formation
Macro Man submits: It was triple witching day on Friday in equity land, and on the evidence so far the old crones have cooked up a stonker. The bubbling witches' cauldron has been aided by a rather amusing game of banking "nickie-nickie-nah-nah," wherein one troubled institution downgrades another: UBS...
Expanding Santander
Felix Salmon submits: Europe has too many banks. Now that it has a single currency, the fact that each country is dominated by its own national banks is looking increasingly old-fashioned. And so it makes sense that, sooner or later, a genuinely European bank will emerge - one with...
ACE Aviation: Deutsche Bank Securities Acquires Shares
FP Trading Desk submits: Deutsche Bank Securities Ltd. DB announced it has acquired 4,635,270 Class A variable voting shares of ACE Aviation Holdings Inc. (ACEAF.PK) , becoming the second large financial company to jump on board the parent company of Air Canada (AIDIF.PK) in the past week. Deutsche's holdings...
Global Subprime: We Are All Connected [Housing Tracker]
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