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    Russia Banks Seek State Talks on Debt; No Restructuring Planned

    Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Russian regional lenders asked the government to moderate talks initiated by foreign financial firms concerned that banks and companies will struggle to repay some of the $400 billion of debt due in the next four years. “Several western banks asked about holding...
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    ECB :“The credit crisis has not yet reached the bottom of the cycle”

    Dec, 11th 2006 : ECB Warns of `Herd-Like' Mentality in Derivatives http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aKd2bSuB5rRc It pays off to read ECB "warnings" !
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    ECB :“The credit crisis has not yet reached the bottom of the cycle”

    The European Central Bank told governments that they should consider combining a so-called bad bank with guarantees of securities if they want to pursue the most cost-effective way of ridding lenders of toxic assets. In draft guidelines to be discussed at a meeting of European finance...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    I have to keep in mind Mr. Steinbruecks legendary remarks in the current crisis : German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck said in December that Brown’s bank rescue plan marked a switch from “decades of supply side politics” to “crass Keynesianism” and was “breathtaking.”...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Just sold my calls from my straddle position. Keep the shorts. Who knows, maybe a good hedge...:D
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    Top Swiss banks reportedly to reveal major losses

    Switzerland's two largest banks are set to announce this week that they suffered combined losses last year of 29 billion Swiss francs ($25 billion), according to a Swiss news report Sunday. UBS AG will reveal Tuesday an annual net loss of 21 billion Swiss francs and will announce 5000 to...
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    Goldman Sachs EW analysis

    The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. $ 96.57 GS 3.72 Short Interest (Shares Short) 13,747,800 Days To Cover (Short Interest Ratio) 0.8 Short Percent of Float 2.88 % Short Interest - Prior 13,462,000 Short % Increase / Decrease 2.12 % Short Squeeze Ranking™ -1 % From 52-Wk High ($...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    • DJ Stoxx 600 was up 1.9% this week. • Consensus: NTM P/E is currently 9.1x; 2008E EPS growth -19.4%, 2009E -1.4%. • Revisions: Estimates for 2009 have come down 10.6% over the last month.
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    Obama's Wealth War--500k is PEANUTS

    Bank chiefs to travel by public transport hey will travel from points near and far – from California to the New York island – but the financial titans converging on Washington next week for a congressional grilling will all leave the private jet in the hangar. Vilified for enjoying...
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    How's that Bond Short working out for ya?

    Missed intermediary 125.09 exit for a couple of ticks. Still short. Still expecting 121.16.
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    Summers: Private capital key to new bank bailout program

    A key Obama administration official said Sunday that new, soon-to-be-announced financial measures by the Treasury will include creating incentives for the private sector to invest in troubled banks. "It can't all be private capital, but with the right kinds of government guarantees and the right...
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    "Subprime Mortgage ABX" Indices Still Making New Lows

    Maybe "correlated" : DJ Wilshire REIT ETF.
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    "Subprime Mortgage ABX" Indices Still Making New Lows

    ABX-HE-BBB 07-2 The ABX Index is a series of credit-default swaps based on 20 bonds that consist of subprime mortgages. ABX contracts are commonly used by investors to speculate on or to hedge against the risk that the underling mortgage securities are not repaid as expected.
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    Treasury buying toxic assets "at discount"

    WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is considering a plan to help purge banks of their bad bets by partnering with the private sector to buy troubled assets, according to people familiar with the matter. The so-called "aggregator bank" would be seeded with some money from the...
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    Bac

    From Merrill´s research team ( 26th Jan 2008 ) : Not your father’s recession, but maybe your grandfather’s In our marketing tour through Europe last week, we brought along our new chart package entitled “Not your father’s recession, but maybe your grandfather’s”. Looking at...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    FDAX rose 15,09 % since 23.01.2009. ES "only" 8,9 %. Finally Germany has accomplished "leadership" in economic scales...:D
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    Treasury buying toxic assets "at discount"

    The Obama administration's eagerly-awaited bank rescue plan will offer to insure some distressed assets held by banks, authorize the government to purchase others, and spend up to $100 billion to buy and modify troubled homeowner mortgages, a source with knowledge of the plan told Reuters on...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Since WW2 ? No, worse ! Read - in German language an assessment of the situation from Vice President of Swiss National Bank : http://www.snb.ch/de/mmr/speeches/id/ref_20090205_pmh/source/ref_20090205_pmh.de.pdf Have fun !
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    U.S. Sovereign CDS Rockets to 82 bp

    Yes, 82 bp (5 yr) according to CMA DataVision Add: btw this is worse than Japan (62) Source : http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/moodys-says-us-financial-position/story.aspx?guid={7DB52440-A28B-4834-A050-F844ECB90014}&dist=msr_4 Related: Moody's says U.S. financial position...
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    Term-asset-backed securities loan facility = government loan bank

    A new program to try to get credit flowing for small business and consumers is on track to start later this month, the Federal Reserve said Friday. In a statement, the Fed didn't specify a date, but disclosed more details of the terms and conditions of the loans. There's a lot riding on the...
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