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Rating agencies had a bad conscience regarding AAA ratings of structured products. By questioning UK's AAA rating they wanted to show their "neutrality"...ROFL ! :D

From uncle BEN's Before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. June 3, 2009 : As a consequence of this elevated level of borrowing, the ratio of federal debt held by the public to nominal GDP is likely to move up from about 40 percent before the...

From: Barr, David [mailto:DBarr@FDIC.gov] Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 4:28 PM Subject: Re: Public statement about remaining FDIC insurance funds The FDIC has not borrowed from Treasury. We will provide an update on the fund on Aug 27. --db

Please don’t call it a liquidity crunch, but it rather looks as though China might have had to sell a sliver of its vast hoard of U.S. Treasury paper to fund its private sector’s big overseas foray. China’s holding passed $800 billion in May, sparking speculation that it could reach $1...

Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Colonial BancGroup Inc.’s collapse and the prospect of mounting failures among regional lenders may prompt the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to impose a special fee as soon as next month to boost reserves by $5.6 billion. The FDIC board might act sooner than...

Here’s a somewhat scary view on Spain that came this week from alternative economic research house Variant Perception. The top line: that Spain is now the hole in Europe’s balance sheet, and that misunderstanding the severity of the crisis will prove costly to investors as it could have...

Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Meredith Whitney, the analyst who predicted that Citigroup Inc. would cut its dividend last year, said the number of U.S. bank failures will quadruple as lenders struggle with bad loans. “There will be over 300 bank closures,” Whitney said in an interview with...

The BLUE line is 15 min SMA(20)... If broken, we will have a lot of fun to the downside... By the way : it's the big S&P chart. Sorry...

Insane price action. 2 1/2 hours 9 tick range. :mad:

Insane session. :mad: "Price action" is a fu..ing joke !

Short this stuff at 17.45.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm

Excellent tme to short the banking sector. :) Shorts were squeezed. Every long seems to be "comfortable" with the economic outlook. Now is the time to hammer them !

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- California's unemployment rate, one of the worst in the country, reached 11.9% in July, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday. The state led the country in the number of jobs lost in July with 35,800 lost jobs. States with higher unemployment rates are...

Pump and dump ALERT. :)

:p Today might be a good time to add to the position and thanks for the idea ! :)

So what about German Bund / Spanish government bond spreads ? Lately they narrowed to 58 basis points ( 19 th of July )...? Investors looking lately for higher Eueopean coupons - a clear sign of risk appetite rising, or ?

Give Berlin its due. Germany’s stimulus measures, once derided as puny, have delivered a bigger bang for the buck than anyone expected. Germany and France, partly helped by its neighbour’s stimulus, exited recession in the second quarter. Both countries’ 0.3 per cent quarter-on-quarter...

Did you double your position after break of 5325.00 ?

You want to be short after these impressive PMI numbers ? :confused: