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Treasury Will Expand TARP To Bail Out Insurers (HIG, LNC, PRU) Joe Weisenthal|Apr. 7, 2009, 9:41 PM| Print Tags: Wall Street, Treasury, Bailout, TARP, Financial Services, Insurance, Financial Crisis, Tim Geithner HIG Apr 7 2009, 07:38 PM EDT 8.45 Change % Change -0.96 -10.20% LNC...

super senior AAA's @ new lows..24's! just wild.

I agree completely but the issue is "timing". As always it's a matter of opinion and its fleshed out in pnl:)

I'm not getting bearish again until the fed/Geithner are out of bullets. It's a full court press to get these financials higher. And they know if they fail the game is over. I think we will see a solution for the insurance co's soon as they are holding 1/2 of all corporate bonds. I'm thinking...

you can't play sectors intraday with futures.

wow the article in the the NYT is down right scary! Some of the proposals are really out there. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/business/06short.html?ref=business shorts are gonna be on the run this week.

Exactly. If they get downgraded below investment grade they are forced to put up alot more capital.

They are the largest in variable annuities tied to s&p. Kinda scary, makes them a proxy on mkt. They are still waiting to hear on TARP like other insurers. HIG just got downgraded to just 1 level above junk status. Good news is regulators may blow out rating agencies influence on...

Why not?:D Just shows you how the only thing that matters is "what's working". Idealogy gets thrown out the door as soon as their backs are against the wall. "M2M is ramping mkts?? cool lets copy that!"

Frank: Muddling Mark to Market By PAUL JACKSON March 31, 2009 12:54 PM CST Advertisements (Update 1: adds OTTI discussion) The anti mark-to-market lobby found a new ally Tuesday morning in House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank (D-MA), who told reporters that he...

Frank: Axe Mark To Market Retroactively Ronald D. Orol MarketWatch Pulse Tuesday, March 31, 2009 WASHINGTON -- A key lawmaker on Tuesday said he would support allowing banks in some circumstances to recoup losses they have already taken due to controversial mark-to-market accounting...

Recovering Writedowns Now FASB has to deal with how banks deal with recoveries of previous writedowns due to other-than-temporary-impairment losses when there’s evidence that loss is no longer there. A March 27 letter sent jointly by the five federal regulators of financial...

And you thought USA was overbuilt. They were completely out of control in Spain building homes everywhere and massive corruption drove alot of it. Ruined alot of nice areas.

Debt Exchanges Are The Latest Push (F, FLIR, MGM, ABH) April 03, 2009 | By Eric Fox Debt exchanges are the latest rage on Wall Street as over-levered companies try to reduce debt levels and survive the recession and credit crisis. If too few bondholders accept the deal, the only...

Insurance Regulators May Reduce Use of Rating Firms By Andrew Frye April 3 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. state insurance regulators may reduce their dependence on firms including Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s Investors Service, saying they are looking into ratings “shortcomings.” The...

Well Geithner said some banks would need big $. So who knows if they play it straight up or not with the stress tests.

Welll I guess we have to wait and see what kind of #'s the financials can create using the new "mark-to-maturity" rules before we get any real downside pressure on these stocks. And who knows what these stress tests will reveal?? It is going to be interesting! I think the reason the...

The whole point of online trading is to NOT have to call the broker. I haven't called IB in 7 years. Anyways, did ask Infinity if they take canadian customers?

So much for that. More new lows!....19 months and counting.

1st ET post is IB bash. Who just "happens" to know of some "reasonable alternatives". Ya whatever. Brokers aren't perfect. Get used to it.