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http://www.dandodiary.com/2008/03/articles/subprime-litigation/bear-stearns-the-lawsuit-and-a-lawsuit-against-deutsche-bank-too/ Bear Stearns: The Lawsuit - And a Lawsuit Against Deutsche Bank, Too. Posted on March 17, 2008 by Kevin LaCroix We knew it was coming but it sure got here...

http://www.bearstearnsinvestors.com/ JP Morgan To Buy Bear Stearns For $2 A Share Bear Stearns Shareholders have Legal Rights Bear Stearns was one of the oldest and most respected Wall Street banks. It had been viewed as a blue chip financial stock, and was a part of the portfolios of many...

Bear Stearns lawsuits start rolling in [Posted on March 18, 2008 at 12:43 PM] E-mail | Comments (1) Filed under: Banking | Distressed | Law | Law suits | M&A The blowback from the $2 per share acquisition of Bear Stearns Cos. is building fast. Before the end of trade Monday, multiple...

If you trade futures at MF Global, there's no need to freak out. Segregated Accounts. Segregated account: An account separate from brokerage firm accounts. Segregated accounts hold customer funds so that if a brokerage house becomes insolvent, the customers’ funds will be readily...

Negative premium. Backwardation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backwardation ES was in backwardation Sunday night.

Watch the rates guys... 2.25% not a lot of room for more cuts. eur, jpy, chf all up

Whether the contract is legal and enforceable, or not, that`s the key.

From Bloomberg Bear Stearns-BSC: The Mystery of the Bid-Up: Opinion [MORE] 2008-03-18 13:37 (New York) Bear Stearns-BSC: The Mystery of the Bid-Up: Opinion As we see the stock up +45% and have seen the entire trading float turn today the question has to be asked - why do traders believe...

says Mohamed El-Erian http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/194ed856-f441-11dc-aaad-0000779fd2ac.html

Should we borrow from Israel instead? Do they ever lend us any money? Or are they just a perpetual drain of taxpayers money?

There are plenty of foreigners willing to invest in America, but they're afraid of getting robbed by the dollar devaluation.

They might end up doing it.

Actually Trichet and other central bankers could intervene in the FX market, damage control, this dollar crash is hurting everyone.

Exactly, and screwing up by murdering the dollar for example.

I think they are p*ssed because US banks sold them subprime loan derivatives.

Not the BSC deal, it's the dollar crash.

The Fed seemed efficient and in charge by quickly defusing the BSC situation, but then they cut rates???? What the F they were thinking??? You dont defuse a panic by further crashing the dollar... Asia really really doesnt like a weak dollar so this bloodbath is entirely the Fed's fault...

Why you guys so scared of the gummit. Thats exactly what they want. In Nazi Germany the punishment for owning offshore accounts was the death penalty, but germans still kept going to Switzerland to open numbered accounts.

Panama Liechtenstein Singapore don't have a TIEA with the US, dont know about HK. However, they won't open accounts for US citizens but I think they might do it through entities.

FCMs have "segregated accounts" for their clients. If the FCM goes down, segregated accounts cannot be touched by creditors, if one client goes down, only his account gets wiped out, the other are safe. It is a very safe and resilient system. If credit derivatives and MBS had been traded...