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    Renaissance RIEF fund Underperforms S&P by 17% In April

    Note : 1)The Medallion Fund historically has traded non-stock instruments and is international in scope. American-traded instruments include commodities futures (energies, corn, wheat, soybeans, etc.) and US Treasury bonds. Foreign-traded instruments include currency swaps, commodities...
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    Renaissance RIEF fund Underperforms S&P by 17% In April

    Demonstrating just how massive the ongoing quant (and market) dislocation is, the most recent performance numbers for Jim Simons monster RIEF fund, which is arguably one of the largest quant funds in the world with $100 billion in total capacity (comps being BGI, Getco and Highbridge, the last...
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    Insider Selling Jumps to Highest Level Since 2007

    April 24 (Bloomberg) -- Executives and insiders at U.S. companies are taking advantage of the steepest stock market gains since 1938 to unload shares at the fastest pace since the start of the bear market. Gap Inc.’s founding family sold $45 million of shares in the largest U.S. clothing...
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    German Banking Supervision: 17 banks amassing 815 billion in risky assets

    BaFin-Liste: Veröffentlichung „nicht witzig“ Translation : German Banking Supervison : Release not"funny" http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/banken-versicherungen/bafin-liste-veroeffentlichung-nicht-witzig;2252135
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Bafin beziffert Kreditrisiken auf 816 Milliarden Euro Ein geheimes Papier der Bafin ist öffentlich geworden - und sorgt für Aufregung. Für 17 Banken schlüsselt es milliardenschwere Risikoposten auf. Die Behörde warnt vor Fehlinterpretationen und hat die Staatsanwaltschaft eingeschaltet.
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    German Banking Supervision: 17 banks amassing 815 billion in risky assets

    * Landesbanken: 355 Milliarden Euro Davon 180 Milliarden toxische Papiere, 175 Milliarden Euro derzeit nicht handelbare Papiere. Allein für die HSH Nordbank setzt die Bafin rund 100 Milliarden Euro an - etwa 13 Milliarden Euro davon sollen Giftpapiere sein. Nach Informationen der "SZ"...
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    German Banking Supervision: 17 banks amassing 815 billion in risky assets

    Unfortunately in German language : http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,621053,00.html Secret paper disclosing risky assets. German banking supervision informs prosecution because of "secretive nature" of paper. :D
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    Short DAX at 7740

    April 24 (Bloomberg) -- Deutsche Bank AG, Germany’s biggest bank, may report record trading revenue at its securities division in the first quarter as credit markets stabilized. Buying and selling bonds, currencies and commodities probably boosted trading revenue, excluding writedowns...
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    Equities still a bubble and equity guys out of this world, BNP Paribas says

    "believe"...Yes, we can ! :D
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    Equities still a bubble and equity guys out of this world, BNP Paribas says

    Yes, really. In a note issued late on Thursday, the credit analysts at BNP Paribas argued that “despite a close to 5o per cent drop in equity valuations, equities look not only rich but are significantly mispriced and are a bubble waiting to be pricked.” Moreover, they contend that equity...
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    American Express Co.'s customers reduced spending by 16% in the first quarte

    American Express Co.'s customers reduced spending by 16% in the first quarter, sending the company's quarterly net income down 56%. In addition to cutbacks in spending, American Express also is being hit hard by rising delinquencies as higher unemployment and a slumping U.S. economy take...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Buying strangles 5000 / 4300.
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    Short DAX at 7740

    German April Ifo climate index climbs to 83.7 LOL ! HAHAHAHAHAH ! You must be fu...ing kidding me !
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    Spain's first quarter unemployment jumps to 17.4%

    MADRID (MarketWatch) -- Unemployment in Spain jumped to 17.4% in the first quarter of 2009, bringing the total number of unemployed to 4,010,700, the National Statistics Institute reported on Friday. In the fourth quarter of last year, Spain recorded an unemployment rate of 13.9%. In the last 12...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Put Call Ratio ODAX 2.6148 May 2009 Put Call Ratio ODAX 3.3086 Jun 2009 Put Call Ratio ODAX 6.1333 Dec 2009
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Today : IFO Current Assessment Measures current German business conditions, without considering future expectations. IFO Expectations Based on firms' expectations for the next six months, where firms rate the future outlook as better, same, or worse.
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    Bernanke and Paulson look foolish if Lewis is right

    NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- If Ken Lewis is telling the truth -- and he'd be foolish to lie to New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo -- then Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson were more than concerned about the financial crisis. They were...
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    Toyota Domestic Output Skids 58.4% In March

    Just for the record : being sarcastic.:D
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    It looks like Chrysler is headed into chapter 11

    R.I.P.
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    Russia stops publishing unemployment numbers; seeks to avoid social unrest

    Premium Vodka, please ! 64 GBP :D http://www.thechampagnecompany.com/premium-spirits/vodka/ultimat-vodka/ultimat-super-premium-vodka/prod_78.html
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