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    Spanish banks break ECB loan record

    Spanish banks are borrowing record amounts from the European Central Bank as the country’s financial institutions struggle to gain funding from the international capital markets. Spanish banks borrowed €85.6bn ($105.7bn) from the ECB last month. This was double the amount lent to them...
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    BAC/MER Has Ordered Traders Not To Enter Into Trades With BP

    It seems the higher the Obama administration wants the "damage fund" to be, the higher the leakage estimates. Seems, correlation does not only exist in financial markets...:cool:
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    ECB overnight deposits rise to 381,2 billion €

    http://www.ecb.int/mopo/implement/sf/html/index.en.html
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Hum...FDAX 2 % away from this years high in the middle of a European sovereign debt crisis ? Who´s wrong - equity investors or bond investors ? :cool:
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    GAIM International hedge fund conference

    Takeaway : 1) Equity will underperform this year 2) Situation in Europe will worsen 3) Volatility will remain high 4) Credit distress will rise In short words : lots of opportunities... http://www.icbi-events.com/gaim/default.php Good luck trading. :)
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Greetings from Monaco :)
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    2010 World Cup - in South Africa

    Boookies quota : RSA - Mexico 2.75 : 2.5 Placing 1k on Mexico. Vamos El Tricolor ! :p
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    Japan PM Warns of Default if Debt Not Fixed

    Good timing after the recent YEN strength in recent weeks and months...
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    Republic of Italy CDS spreads down 20 bps today

    http://www.markit.com/en/about/news/commentary/cds/cds.page Mario Draghi has everything under control... :D
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    Roubini : Greece needs maturities stretching orderly solution

    New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini said June 4 that an orderly restructuring of Greece’s public debt in the next 12 months may be necessary to avoid “massive losses” for the financial system. Orderly Plan He recommended stretching the maturities of the country’s debt...
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    Stocks Could Be Headed for More Losses

    Thanks for the reminder. Maybe I will add one or two markets to the 70 I am trading daily ;=)
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    Stocks Could Be Headed for More Losses

    LOS ANGELES (TheStreet) -- The stock-market slide isn't over yet, says David Wright, manager of the Sierra Core Retirement Fund(SIRAX). He's keeping more than half of the mutual fund in cash. The Sierra Core Retirement Fund has returned 3.7% this year, better than 99% of its rival funds...
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    Nomura´s Koo: Japan Nears End of 25-Year (!) Balance-Sheet Recession

    Koo: Japan Nears End of 25-Year (!) Balance-Sheet Recession By Paul Kedrosky · Tuesday, June 8, 2010 · ShareThis It only took … oooh, 2.5 decades, but Richard Koo at Nomura says Japan is finally nearing the other side of its endless balance-sheet recession. The U.S. is at year two of its...
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    Yesterday, a taxi driver was telling me...

    Euro short is a "nobrainer" and the break up of the Euro is 100 %. About time to reverse positions....:p
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    Short DAX at 7740

    The whole world is short on 76 % assurance of a Greek default and subsequent Euro area break up. Every retail trader out there is short Euro. A "nonbrainer" - as a taxi driver told me yesterday...LOL ! Heard this story before many times....:D
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    Short DAX at 7740

    1. Target 6036.00 and then this magic 6110.50 again...:p
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    Sporadic manipulation in money markets with central bank standing facilities

    http://www.ecb.int/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp399.pdf Everywhere "manipulation" attempts. Ay, ay, ay...:cool:
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    Western sovereigns continued to outperform CDS market tightening by 16bp to 150bp

    Sovereigns continued to outperform, with the Markit iTraxx SovX Western Europe tightening by 16bp to 150bp. The difference between the SovX and the Markit iTraxx Europe is now at its smallest since mid-May. Dealers reported strong demand to sell protection, and both peripherals and core...
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    BP is going down

    For now, word is that BP will suspend dividend for 2 quarters to come. Cash crunch problem ? LOL ! Just yesterday they announced to pay Q1 dividend. 10 billion USD. Do you call this a "cash problem" ??????:confused:
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    Short DAX at 7740

    I made some money with some calls today, re-invest into 5350 Sep puts...part of dynamic hedge strategy.
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