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Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- German unemployment fell more than economists forecast in September as machine makers hired people to work off an order backlog. The number of workers without jobs, adjusted for seasonal swings, dropped by 29,000 to 3.18 million after falling 40,000 in August, the...

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Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks lost $1.1 trillion in market value, oil plunged and Treasury bonds rallied after lawmakers rejected the Bush administration's $700 billion financial rescue. 1.1 trillion : 700 bn :mad: :mad: :mad:

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Purchasing managers across the euro zone on Tuesday indicated a further contraction in activity in September, adding to evidence that the 15-nation region may have already slipped into its first recession since the introduction of the single currency nearly a decade ago, economists said. The...

Policy Power A coordinated round of policy measures aimed at short-circuiting the liquidity squeeze has resulted in a sharp rally. Taken together, the measures are likely to be a crucial development by helping to alleviate counterparty risk fears that resulted in the collapse of the interbank...

From HedgeFundResearch.com: Volatile financial markets continued to impact the hedge fund industry in 2Q 2008, contributing to over 180 hedge fund liquidations for the quarter, according to data released today by Hedge Fund Research, (HFR), a leading source of hedge fund information and...

ABS, ABX at bottom; extraordinary value seen-JPMorgan JPMorgan Securities said on Friday the actions taken by the U.S. government aimed at stemming systemic risk have created a bottom in prices for cash and derivative segments of the asset-backed securities market. "The actions taken this...

Text of Draft Proposal for Bailout Plan : LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL FOR TREASURY AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE MORTGAGE-RELATED ASSETS Section 1. Short Title. This Act may be cited as ____________________. Sec. 2. Purchases of Mortgage-Related Assets. (a) Authority to Purchase.--The...

(Reuters) - The Bush administration is proposing sweeping authority for the U.S. Treasury to buy up to $700 billion of mortgage assets, in a bid to end financial carnage on Wall Street. Below are key elements of the powers that would be granted to the U.S. Treasury Secretary under draft...

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Truth, the flexibility of facts, and market panics Sep 18 16:35 by Paul Murphy Comment (23 comments) Phone rings… FT Alphaville: Hello, Murphy Morgan Stanley PR: Hi, this is XXXXX from MS. Have you seen the information on Bloomberg? Mr Mack did NOT say these things. And I’m just...

This is a pretty stunning line to read: “We need a merger partner or we’re not going to make it,” Mr. Mack told Mr. Pandit, according to two people briefed on the talks. Mr. Pandit, a former senior investment banker at Morgan Stanley, said Citigroup was not interested. What might...

http://www.indexarb.com/index.html Purpose of this Web Site The information at this site is intended to help arbitrageurs and investors who are not arbitrageurs but who can benefit from knowing likely arbitrageur activity. We intend to do this by presenting our estimates of the market...

Credit concerns increase risk The recent events in the financial world have again highlighted the issue of credit quality across the whole market. Our banks team believes banks still need to reduce the overall size of their balance sheets, which will mean both reduced lending and higher rates...

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The Pimco Total Return fund, managed by Bill Gross, reaped a $1.7bn gain following the US government takeover of home loan giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. While shareholders in Fannie and Freddie suffered deep losses, the world’s biggest bond fund saw its biggest ever one-day rise against...

Abstract During the week of August 6, 2007, a number of quantitative long/short equity hedge funds experienced unprecedented losses. Based on TASS hedge-fund data and simulations of a specic long/short equity strategy, we hypothesize that the losses were initiated by the rapid \unwind"...

Company outlook statements show management teams are concerned about a growth slowdown in the second half of the year. While emerging markets and pricing power have contributed positively to results, managements are still worried about commodity costs and currencies. Dividends and buybacks...