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    Financial groups’ problem assets hit $610bn

    yes, and is Paulson's withholding of the other half of the tarp his belief that Damocles' sword will drop completely ?
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    discovered — origin of economic crisis — solution

    'a giant black hole has just been discovered at the centre of our galaxy that is four million times heavier than our Sun it has been determined that the black hole's gravity is so great that it has been sucking up all the money of the banks and other financial institutions - who apparently...
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    Speed of Internet Connection

    yes. don't know if it's slow or not, Shaw states for the service i pay for: "Up to 10 Mbps download speed, 1 Mbps upload speed" which seems very fast but i really don't understand what Mbps means since i presume the correct term for data transfer should be the Kbps measure speed's...
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    States beg and borrow to help pay jobless benefits

    huh. didn't know the individual states were responsible for the benefit payments in Canada it's a federal responsibility, same in UK and EU countries (?) so are the benefits paid higher in some states than others ?
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    Why is the VIX holding steady?

    the vix has some way to go before it tops the oct 1987 h of 170+ but does look like it'll go higher - 120 anyone ?
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    Speed of Internet Connection

    thanks forsalenyc for the link changing the subject some, does anyone know the speed of order entry/fill trading eminis when using NinjaTrader with the ZenFire feed ? and do the computer specs make any difference to speed/latency ? from Vancouver, Canada cable/Shaw to: chicago ...
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    You're effing ads are crashing my browser

    yea i'm getting hangs requiring close, re-open IE and use History to go back to forum
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    "Outlook for 2009: It's All About CDS"

    certainly go out of their way to sugar-coat it don't they "What Geithner and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke failed to tell Congress, President-elect Barack Obama and the American people is that CDS dealers don't post any effective collateral at all with other dealers. So much for the legal...
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    What you need to believe to buy into "we didn't see it coming"

    top of the list must be re-legalising cds, derivatives, swaps betting — the 1907 law banning such activity 'revoked' in 2000 http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=142732
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    commodity charts and symbols

    http://www2.barchart.com/mktcom.asp
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    China Faces Mass Social Unrest

    there were tens of thousands of 'demonstrations' in China in 07 - sorry can't immediately find a reference tho the figures are government released besides the lack of 'democracy' China's problem is there's no Law so the common wo/man have No rights. besides the large Communist government...
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    SEC adopts new rules for credit-rating agencies

    surprised it hadn't already been posted, you'll read the SEC still isn't prepared to do the whole 9 yards of regulation others believe it should http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i_mRZNfX8KzLDJwYh1IM0g-jb7FAD94REJT80
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    how will Canada fare if global economy collapses?

    "The House of Commons has gone dark until Jan 26/09 when prime minister Harper will return and present a federal budget the next day followed by a confidence vote. prorogue/prorogation ends a parliamentary session and allows the government to start again at a later date with a fresh throne...
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    rumour leading to yesterday's selloff

    via wilburbear: 'investors have asked to withdraw 36 percent of the assets' : http://www.reuters.com/article/innovationNews/idUSTRE4B14MU20081202 http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=146636
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    The D word on bloomberg right now.

    while you're waiting to decide, maybe ByLoSellHi's post will cheer you up - http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=142152
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    A Fiscal Crisis and the UK Suffers The Mother of All Bank Runs

    UK government's 5 criteria for joining the euro: http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/docs/efaq.htm#criteria
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    rumour leading to yesterday's selloff

    here's a reference: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/breakingviewscom/3541719/Hedge-fund-redemptions-force-a-rethink.html Last Updated: 11:38AM GMT 02 Dec 2008 By Jeff Segal, breakingviews.com ' With fewer than 30 days remaining in 2008, investors’ last opportunity to pull money out of...
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    how will Canada fare if global economy collapses?

    and lets not forget that any money the US spends to support their economy is an economic benefit to Canada without Canada having to spend a cent
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    how will Canada fare if global economy collapses?

    Xerox Canada gave Xerox US $300M some months ago, similar Circuit City in their bankruptcy filing received permission to withdraw Canadian Circuit City profits, how many other such transactions - profit raids are occurring isn't known Canada's S&P/TSX Composite index (Interi (^GSPTSE)...
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