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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Senators late Tuesday rejected an amendment to a sweeping bank reform bill that would have prohibited so-called naked credit default swaps. Credit default swaps are a form of insurance institutions buy on bonds they purchase to protect them against the possibility...

A lot of "cheap" stuff out there - it seems... http://ycharts.com/calculations/rankings/earning_yield

Why is Japan’s High Debt Seemingly Lower Risk? &#61550; High domestic savings &#61550; Low foreign ownership of debt (< 14% of GDP) &#61550; Strong home bias &#61550; Stable institutional investors &#61550; Local banks purchase high % of Govt debt Source : Deutsche Bank Research...

How many accounts finished at ZERO ? Nil ? Niente ? Nada ? Nichts ? Nula ? :confused:

I am leaving for one day my office and Germany's finance ministry goes crazy !!!!! U N B E L I E V A B L E STUPID ! Bravo, bravissimo Mr. Schäuble ! Let's take a look at the bond holdings of the "naked short banning" companies. Maybe some hidden or leveragged exposure to certain EU member...

> +20 %....:)

Hedge Funds Post Inflow of $7.6 Billion in March; Hedge Fund Assets Stand at 16-Month High of $1.64 Trillion New York, NY – May 10, 2010 – TrimTabs Investment Research and BarclayHedge reported that the hedge fund industry posted an estimated inflow of $7.6 billion, or 0.5% of assets, in...

Some of the world’s biggest hedge funds have suffered significant losses this month after high levels of volatility across markets and the shortlived stock market plunge in New York combined to wipe billions from portfolios. Losses in the first week of May alone erased all gains made so far...

http://finviz.com/futures_performance.ashx?v=17

May 16 (Bloomberg) -- Greece is considering taking legal action against U.S. investment banks that might have contributed to the country’s debt crisis, Prime Minister George Papandreou said. “I wouldn’t rule out that this may be a recourse,” Papandreou said, in response to questions...

Joseph Cassano grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where his father was a policeman. He earned a political science degree from Brooklyn College in 1977. He worked at investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert during their junk bond phase. In 1987, AIG hired Cassano as one of the first ten people in...

So what are EX Drexel Burnham Lambert alumni doing now ?... * Abby Joseph Cohen, partner and chief U.S. investment strategist at Goldman, Sachs & Co * Marc Faber, formerly managing director of Drexel's Hong Kong office, famous for the Gloom Boom Doom investment report "Dr Doom"...

I can only repeat my question that I have raised already dozen of times, because not the SEC, CFTC and other regulator are not raising it and the are not raising it for A REASON ( emphasis !!!!! ) : WHERE HAVE BEEN SMART ASS, "CLASSIC" MARKET MAKERS LIKE GOLDMAN, J.P. MORGAN, BOFA/MERRILL...

Gensler said the contracts were sold between 2:32 p.m. and 2:51 p.m., the height of the meltdown.

Waddell calls e-mini trades 'longstanding' hedge

Waddel & Reed : http://www.retirementfraud.org/

(Reuters) - A big mystery seller of futures contracts during the market meltdown last week was not a hedge fund or a high frequency trader as many have suspected, but money manager Waddell & Reed Financial Inc, according to a document obtained by Reuters. Waddell sold on May 6 a large order...

If they are unexperienced with hedging strategies, it might be a WMD in their hands...But why is CFTC's Gensler saying it was "disproportionately" ? Maybe more than "just" a hedging strategy...

A big exclusive for Reuters, which on Friday afternoon revealed the identity of the mystery trader CFTC chairman Gary Gensler said placed a disproportionately large sell order in CME e-mini S&P futures around the time of Thursday’s ‘flash crash’. And it was not a high frequency trader...

At which point can we expect HFT boutiques to stop adding liquidity to the markets today ? After we hit - 500 or -1000 ? :confused: :p