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- New Milestones in Price Discovery
- Greg Newton submits: The Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME began trading steel futures contracts Monday, four years more or less after what is now its Nymex subsidiary originally announced plans to list the commodity. Things are going absolutely swimmingly, with a total of zero contracts traded in the first four...
- External links 2008-10-24
- Goldman's D-e-e-e-e-p Look at Madoff
- Greg Newton submits: Did due diligence before Tremont saleBanned Madoff “more than a decade ago”Investigators looking into Bernard L. Madoff Investment Services LLC should probably drop off a subpoena at 85 Broad. Goldman Sachs GS — representing MassMutual MCI subsidiary OppenheimerFunds in its 2001 purchase of Tremont Advisers Inc ...
- External links 2008-12-22
- Goldman Denies Madoff Due Diligence
- Greg Newton submits: Goldman Sachs spokesman Lucas van Praag writes: You have been misled and, as a result, have misled your readers. Goldman Sachs did not work for Mass Mutual/Oppenheimer[Funds] on the purchase of Tremont Advisors. We acted for a third party interested in bidding against Mass...
- External links 2008-12-22
- No Mere Buffett, A 14-Course Menu
- Greg Newton submits: Dear Mr. Buffett What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street by Janet Tavakoli Wiley 2009 $24.95 list Hardcover Chicago derivatives consultant Janet Tavakoli is a rare jewel in the financial markets. Arguably best known for weighty textbooks with such alluring titles as ‘Structured...
- External links 2009-01-09
- It's Schadenfreude Saturday!
- Greg Newton submits: Capping the payoffHaving earned been paid $115 million since 1999 for taking lunch and, on a busy day, pontificating, former Treasury secretary Bob Rubin capped his payoff for helping debauche Glass-Steagall, without which intervention Citi C might still be a functional financial institution rather than a...
- External links 2009-01-11
- I'm from S&P and I'm Here to Help
- Greg Newton submits: NEW YORK, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ — Standard & Poor’s, the leading provider of financial market intelligence, has announced the launch of Valuation Scenario Services for Structured Asset Portfolios, a new service to help investors evaluate the intrinsic value of structured assets and complex securities. ...
- External links 2009-01-20
- They're Such Kidders* at Merrill
- Greg Newton submits: Pretty much standard ass-covering: “Although we vigorously disputed the allegations in these cases, we concluded it was best to avoid the uncertainty, distraction and costs of the litigation, and to try to achieve certainty through these settlements,” Mark Herr, a spokesman for Merrill Lynch...Except “these settlements” reached...
- External links 2009-01-20
- Great Days in Customers' Yachts: M&T vs. Deutsche Bank Edition
- Greg Newton submits: It’s finally dawning on market players and investorsthat Wall Street’s interest and those of investors have never been aligned...Investors are beginning to say to themselves: ‘Hey, thereis someone who will benefit if this doesn’t go well.’While the preferred outcome here would be humiliating defeat for both sides,...
- External links 2009-01-23
- Goldman Gets the Memo
- Greg Newton submits: This party-pooping business is getting out of hand, with innocent hedge fund managers and investors now being victimized: Goldman Sachs called off its big Miami hedge-fund conference scheduled for the first week of March, telling clients that going ahead with the normally posh event there could cause...
- External links 2009-02-05
- Blame Canada! Fortress Inconvenienced Again
- Greg Newton submits: 12 injured, 53 rescued in gondola prang Vancouver Sun photo by Greg Newton
- External links 2008-12-19
- Fortress Raises Redemptions Drawbridge
- Greg Newton submits: [CORRECTED Dec. 3] Translated from the original filingspeak, it seems that Fortress Investment Group FIG has determined that it needs the money more than investors now seeking to pull $3.5 billion — or, pretty much half the whole pile — from its...
- External links 2008-12-04
- Wes Edens' Obama Waterfall
- Greg Newton submits: To review: Fortress Investment Group’s FIG IPO, on Feb. 9, 2007, was priced at $18.50, opened at $35 and traded as high as $37 that day. But in case the last $2.06 (at Friday’s close, after the stock traded at a new all-time low of $1.80 intraday)...
- External links 2008-11-24
- Fortress Makes Black Diamond Run
- Greg Newton submits: All in all, Thursday turned out a lot better than it might have for listed hedge fund-private equity shop Fortress Investment Group FIG. It dodged a $1.7 billion debt mogul at its Intrawest “experiential destination resorts” unit which was, by all accounts, headed for...
- External links 2008-10-24
- Ain't Globalization Grand?
- Greg Newton submits: Two familiar names from the US deleveraging debacle are spreading their joy to little ol’ New Zealand. Where the wise virgins (OK, maybe not so wise; those yields were probably a clue) have taken it in the privates over the last year or so with the collapse...
- External links 2008-10-28
- Markets/Irrational/Longer/Solvent
- Greg Newton submits: The last, and perhaps the biggest, bubble of them all: the yield on the long bond since 1980, annotated by, and stolen without permission from, Alchemy of Trading.Disclosure: NakedShorts, who is most-times early, which is indistinguishable from being wrong, has a starter position in [[TBT]]. Banking on,...
- External links 2008-10-28
- Bait-and-Switch Obviousness Shock: GM's Payoff
- Greg Newton submits: NakedShorts’ Obviousness Rule rule states that, even if things are obvious, they are not officially true until some official writes for, or talks to, an official news organization to tell everybody something that everybody already knows, but doesn’t dare say. So, the payoff for two...
- External links 2008-10-28
- Right, Now Kevin Davis Buys His Own Cappuccino
- Greg Newton submits: NEW YORK, October 29, 2008 – MF Global Ltd. MF, a leading broker of exchange-traded futures and options, announced the company’s board of directors has appointed Bernard W. Dan...chief executive officer, effective immediately. Hang on. Didn’t some other guy...? by Greg Newton
- External links 2008-10-30
- GLG Confirms 'Toast Is Not a Liquid'
- Greg Newton submits: But it pays 2%. Gotta problem with that? Parsing a story in The London Sunday Times Sunday: ONE of Europe’s largest hedge funds, [[GLG]], is sending a letter to investors this weekend saying it is to launch a “liquidity review” of its funds. by...
- External links 2008-11-03
- Foreclosure Relief: $1 Million Apiece
- Greg Newton submits: ABOVE: Webster Bank WBS executives help themselves to $400 million from the Kash’n’Kari Capital Purchase Program. Connecticut is hardly unique in being littered with small-cap banks that have variously avoided the worst of the financial sector rout, lied more skillfully about their exposures,...
- External links 2008-11-17
- Eddie Lampert's Waterfall
- Greg Newton submits: It’s been a week or two since anybody called Eddie Lampert “The next Warren Buffett.” And now, it seems, either Bill Ackman got the memo, or even value tramps not a typo have stops. From the 13F-HRs of Pershing Square Capital Management LP, vis-a-vis...
- External links 2008-11-19
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