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I've seen banks and all kinds of financial institutions as lenders (didn't look into what each financial institution's specialty is). I've seen that the fund itself acted as a lender....

Yes, if you're a general partner of the fund (founder, etc.), then you'd enjoy that expensive management fees on the top of whatever portion of return is. But if you're a limited partner to the fund (investors to the fund, etc.), then your share would be a piece of return minus the management...

Calm down. I wasn't trying to change your "firsthand" knowledge of the subject, or trying to disagree with you. You're missing my point.

I personally hope that these investments will actively continue.... But I am wondering what would happen to some of the funds which use high leverage once something starts going wrong.... It's like people were buying bunch of houses with little down. As long as everything go smooth, they...

humm... I may not word it properly. Normally, not the fund, but the company or so-called borrower gets financing. And yes, the debt obligations are put on the company and secured by the company's asset, many times, also by the company's parent or subsidiaries as well, whatever a lender...

In LBO, the financing is the liability on the fund, not on the company. I mean that the fund normally create a holding co. that holds all businesses, access, companies, as well as all the outstanding shares of the holding co. So it looks like from the outside that the liability of loans are...

Totally material world !

There is hardly ever outage in Japan, at least in Tokyo. So it's hard to believe that they are constantly having short outage, and not been solved yet. Maybe they are doing it on purpose - don't know what for though. I heard that for some stock there is a limit as to how much stock can...

How am I supposed to interpret data from pre-market indicator? Say, if the Nasdaq closed at 1746.43 on 3/8/07, the current value on 3/11/07 is 1759.11, I should interpret this number as positive indication for Monday morning?

BRIC stands for Brazil, Russia, India and China - very popular financial products in Japan.

Really !? I better be careful. I thought that Cybertrader with direct access is bullet proof, but you might be right. Their quotes often stuck when a stock is moving fast.

I was trading GS thru CyberTrader in the past couple of days. Many times, there were all kinds of prices on time & sell, sometimes more than $1 part from each other, and those prices were way off from the prices listed on bid & ask. Is this because of the hybrid everyone was talking about...

I know this is off the topic, but before Japanese pre-bubble time in early 80's, US economy did not affect Japan as much, because the Japanese did not hold US bonds nor had much money to invest in the US.. Is my conclusion some what correct?

So I can conclude a lot of Japanese money is tied into/with the US market. Like the Japanese owns lots of U.S. government bonds and have lots of money invested in the US markets, right? But ending the zero interest rates indicate that the economy is gradually improving... So domestically...

Can you explain what these charts indicate?

well, money chase one market to another, one country to another....if there is no else to go, that would be the end of the world!!

I guess it's time to be caution with IYR... My new company offers Vanguard for my 401k. They only offers mutual funds, not even ETFs. So I have no choice but pick mutual funds. As of this year, REIT still outperforms...Soon to be replaced I guess.

Can someone explain why IYR is doing ok, while we are getting lots of negative information on housing? I mean I understand that IYR contains lots of commercial real estate properties, and most of negative information we hear on housing are residential market. Historically can residential...

2gtt: The end all is what he said. Those two combined give a sell signal. Totally. I agree. :)

Thanks for showing this in numbers. I thought that the scenario would be something like this. It's more clear to me now. And yes, there are a lot of emotional factors such as pride in ownership, women instincts, etc., so whether buying a house makes sense or not is an individual choice, of...