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Well if anyone was going to have record investment banking revenues in Q1 it was going to be JP Morgan. Here’s the bank’s summary: • Generated record firmwide revenue of $26.9 billion and pretax, pre-provision profit of $13.5 billion (on a managed basis 1): - Record revenue and net...

Let´s see what dynamic hedging can do for me...let´s see what US markets can do for me...let´s have some fun ! :)

Buying 4600 puts.

Jerome Kerviel like behavior in FDAX.

Euro-zone Feb. annual industrial production drops 18.4%.

General Growth Properties Inc., the second-largest U.S. shopping-mall owner, filed for bankruptcy after failing to refinance more than $27 billion of debt, most of it racked up through acquisitions. General Growth, which owns more than 200 shopping malls in the U.S., sought Chapter 11...

Deutsche Bank XETRA 37,98 0,96 2,59% 10:19 Stock doubled in 2 month time. Time to get rid off it and go short.

General Growth Seeks Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection The bankruptcy filing lists Eurohypo AG, a unit of Commerzbank AG, as General Growth’s largest unsecured creditor, with claims totaling $2.6 billion under two loans. The filing said noteholders are owed about $4 billion in total...

China’s economy slowed in the first quarter to its weakest pace on record, but an improvement in data for March offers tentative signs that the worst may be over for the world’s third-largest economy, reports Reuters. Annual GDP growth fell to 6.1%, down from 6.8% in the preceding quarter...

Pump and dump. :)

I have only one idea : 4600 straddles.

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- British same-store sales fell in March, but the timing of the Easter holiday makes comparisons versus the same month last year difficult, the British Retail Consortium said Thursday. The BRC's monthly retail sales monitor found same-store sales values fell 1.2%...

Atticus, please explain...

Now, that strucured finance and structured products have been revealed as Pandora´s box, banks have to go back to classic baking - hum, banking : Loan loss provisions will rise. Write-offs will rise. Risk assessment and risk procedures much more scrutinized then in the hype years. You might...

I run different correlation matrices. Currencies are only one part. Always good to know USD, GBP, JPY, CHF investors´mood...

You can judge it on relatively outperformance of FDAX against ES. While we are down almost 3 % from ES high 861.25, FDAX "only" down 1 % from its high...

Let them repay TARP and thereafter it will be funny again...

Goldman Sachs cut at J.P. Morgan on valuation J.P. Morgan cut its rating on Goldman Sachs to neutral from overweight and left its price target unchanged at $120, saying the stock is now fully valued. The broker said that while the investment bank has the stronger and cleanest capital position...

short @ 63. :)

Goldman Sachs has amassed a war chest of $164bn in cash and liquid assets that could be used to buy distressed securities and loans, Goldman’s chief financial officer said on Tuesday. David Viniar spoke as the bank sold $5bn in common stock – at $123 per share – which it will use to repay...