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9 months and counting...ABX indices mostly @ all time lows except for AAA's and the odd AA.

dumped jts setting folder fixed it.

Standalone TWS 884 released today. TWS 884 Version Doesn't show up on login. Gives me a box stating there is a new look and when I click on it it goes away and nothing else comes up. Anyone else? :confused:

Also said that institutions wanted in but float was too small, which is another reason to float 50 m shares via auction. Big boys will pay up a buck or two for size on the auction. Brokerage/Market Maker space seems to be enjoying alot of action of late with IBKR NITE FCSX LAB SCHW AMTD the...

Well the AAA AA's are holding up but the rest is hitting new lows. Looks like it will take clear signs of a bottom in housing/foreclosure #'s to get ppl to buy the real garbage.

woohoo! another massive financials led rally on tap then huh?:cool:

Citigroup Close to Selling $12 Billion in Loans, Bonds Reuters | 08 Apr 2008 | 06:38 PM ET Citigroup, the largest U.S. bank, is close to selling about $12 billion of leveraged loans and bonds to a group of private equity firms, people familiar with the situation said on Tuesday...

Citigroup May Sell $12 Billion of Junk-Grade Loans, Person Says By Bradley Keoun April 8 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc. is in talks to sell $12 billion of junk-grade corporate loans to Apollo Management LP, Blackstone Group LP and TPG Inc. as part of an effort to shrink the bank's balance...

Looks like futures are up on this. Could be major.

Citigroup close to sale of troubled debt: report By John Letzing, MarketWatch Last update: 7:10 p.m. EDT April 8, 2008Print E-mail RSS Disable Live Quotes SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Citigroup Inc. is nearing a deal to sell some $12 billion in troubled debt to private equity firms for...

How long until IB's TWS makes Quotetracker redundant ?

How long until IB's TWS makes Quotetracker redundant ?

Commercial-, Home-Mortgage Bonds Plunge in Quarter (Update1) By Jody Shenn April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Securities backed by U.S. commercial mortgages and home loans to better-than-subprime borrowers dropped the most ever last quarter, as the credit-market slump deepened amid growing losses at...

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well well we have....buyers! AAA's AA's definitely on the move HIGHER. I guess all the free money and new bogus accounting free-for-all rules DO account for something lol:) hell we may even see reversals on some of these writedowns.

MBIA Loses AAA Insurer Rating From Fitch Over Capital (Update2) By Emma Moody April 4 (Bloomberg) -- Fitch Ratings cut MBIA Inc.'s insurance rating to AA from AAA, saying the bond insurer no longer has enough capital to warrant the top ranking. MBIA, the world's largest bond insurer...

NO big deal unless there is another agency that downgrades it below AAA. You need 2 downgrades to trigger selling of AAA's.

Whitney Comments On Capital Raising By Lehman,Others Lehman is selling shares ahead of what will probably be a ``barn rush'' of firms trying raise capital this year, Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Meredith Whitney wrote in a report. ``While this capital raise is expensive on a near-term historical...

2nd qtr according to a communique I read. Available to ALL customers.

Yes I found it quite delayed and useless. Perhaps I'll give it another try and report back. But if its the same feed, it was hours or days' old news being indicated as only 1 min - 60 min old - VERY annoying and useless. Also it doesnt scroll or have an alert function like DJ has. The nice part...