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    Treasury to Allow Banks to Announce Equity Injections

    WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department has decided to let banks individually announce that the government will invest in each firm, scrapping an earlier plan to release the names of multiple banks receiving federal money all at once, people familiar with the matter said. The decision came...
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    ES Journal Archive (2006 - 2008)

    I see 822.00 today and maybe we will close this overnight gap...But hey, I am just a humble market participant, er...intraday liquidity provider :)
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    Citic Pacific May Lose $2 Billion From Unauthorized Currency Bets

    Citic Pacific Ltd., the Hong Kong arm of China's biggest state-owned investment company, said it may lose as much as HK$15.5 billion ($2 billion) from unauthorized currency bets and replaced two finance executives. A loss of HK$808 million has been incurred from terminating some leveraged...
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    Caisse d'Epargne Had EU600 Million Derivatives Losses

    Groupe Caisse d'Epargne, the French customer-owned bank in merger talks with Groupe Banque Populaire, reported a 600 million-euro ($807 million) loss on equity derivatives after stock markets plunged last week. The loss occurred at the proprietary-trading business of Caisse Nationale des...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Funny, how fast we are moving from "deep" recession scenario back to "normality"...:D :) :p
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    Short DAX at 7740

    On Friday we published a piece called 'Recession - Now Priced as the Central Scenario' showing how the market was now discounting a 30% fall in profits next year based on a 4% ERP. Following the European Government initiatives that evolved over the weekend, we published the attached Strategy...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Dynamic hedging strategies : Wharton, by Simon Benninga and Zvi Wiener http://finance.wharton.upenn.edu/~benninga/mma/MiER71.pdf
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    Paris summit approves inter-bank loan guarantees

    http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/europe-reportedly-guarantee-interbank-loans/story.aspx?guid={6D553AB3-BF17-4D7F-B34E-59A0DD51F8A6} http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ake_hIeoOmBo&refer=home These measures should be working....
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    Mitsubishi-Morgan Stanley deal gets anti-trust clearance

    Mitsubishi UFJ, Morgan Stanley get regulatory OK on deal Mitsubishi-Morgan Stanley deal to closely promptly
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    Fed creates special purpose vechile to buy commercial pape

    9:00 a.m. Fed says move designed to boost commercial paper lending 9:00 a.m. Treasury provides funding for Fed commercial paper purchase 9:00 a.m. Fed creates special purpose vechile to buy commercial pape 9:00 a.m. Fed to buy commercial paper, to ease strain in market
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    Definition of stock market crash

    A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors. They often follow speculative stock market bubbles. Stock market crashes are social phenomena where...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    We might see 5513 today, but I am an aggressive buyer. Of course dynamic hedge in place....:D :D :D
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    Germany’s Hypo Real Estate says rescue collapsed

    It's official - they have agreed upon a rescue package : http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=atXGCoKSlghE&refer=home "too big to fail"....
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    Germany’s Hypo Real Estate says rescue collapsed

    German Private Banks Offer EU30 Bln for Hypo Rescue, DPA Says By Brian Parkin Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- German banks offered to top up their contribution to a rescue package for Hypo Real Estate Holding AG to 30 billion euros ($41.3 billion) from 8.5 billion euros, the newswire Deutsche...
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    Germany’s Hypo Real Estate says rescue collapsed

    Last news seems that some private banks want to extend their credit lines to HRE p to 30 bn EUR.
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    Germany’s Hypo Real Estate says rescue collapsed

    Hypo Real Estate was racing to find a way to save itself after the German property lender revealed the collapse of a previous rescue plan that could pose the biggest threat to Germany’s financial system amid reports a consortium of banks had reassessed the bank’s funding needs...
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    Trichet: Uncertainty at 'exceptional' level

    Ha, ha, ha...Most stupid comment I read ever ! :D :D :D
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    UBS expects to report small third-quarter profit

    UBS said Thursday that it expects to report a small profit in the third quarter. The bank also said that it has substantially reduced its U.S. commercial and residential mortgage-related positions, mainly through disposals. UBS has developed a remediation plan to address issues highlighted by...
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    Surprise : German Unemployment Rate falls to 16 year low

    Sept. euro-zone annual CPI falls to 3.6% from 3.8% Aug. :D
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    Surprise : German Unemployment Rate falls to 16 year low

    1) An all time record for the Vix One thing that has been going up — the Chicago chaos barometer - the Vix. It measures volatility amongst S&P 500 stocks and hit an all time high of 48.36 at 3.28 New York time yesterday. That compares with a previous high of 44.28 in August 1998. 2)...
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