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$32 bn is enough of capital buffer to bolster a worse than worse case scenario.

If you think that this market is "normal" - take a look at volume numbers early in the morning : over 20.000 contracts spent to protect 6024.00...LOL ! So which desk is playing little dirty games here ? 100 % several "collaborative" partners !

Exit 6050 calls, enter 5950.00 puts.

The parabolic chart in front of my screen....

Did I mention 1043.75 ? Ouch. 1059.50. WOW. FDAX 6049 ? Short covering de luxe. :)

Freddie Mac said late Wednesday its shares will begin trading on the over-the-counter market starting Thursday. Freddie Mac shares will trade under the symbol FMCC on the OTC market. The mortgage finance firm said in June that it was ordered by its conservator the Federal Housing Finance Agency...

Yeah, I know. I just called Eurex. No fun this way. :( There is not enough "interest" for this sort of instruments. :( On a side note : http://www.meff.es/aspx/Comun/Pagina.aspx?l1=Financiero&f=Bono10&id=ing ...

Waiting for the next bear attack...

European banking regulators have told lenders that their planned stress tests may assume a loss of about 17 percent on Greek government debt and 3 percent on Spanish bonds, according to two people briefed on the talks. There are unlikely to be so-called haircuts on German government...

Spanish 10-year bonds fell, sending the yield five basis points higher to 4.77 percent, and widening the yield spread over bunds by eight basis points to 220 basis points. The Portuguese 10-year yield rose five basis points to 5.49 percent as the nation sold short-term securities, while the...

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said that while the economy is slowing, there’s little risk it will sink back into a recession and policy makers have “done enough” to spur growth. “I don’t think we’re going to go backwards,” Fisher said in an interview...

That´s right or to express it in Gordon Gekko´s words : The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed -- for lack of a better word -- is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its...

5997.00. Exit. ES might rise to 1043.75 but not sure about it.

You mean similar bullsh1t like the stress tests in the US of A ? I recall these stress tests and market reaction very well...

State Street rises 9% premarket State Street were up more than 9% premarket Wednesday. The company said Wednesday morning it expects higher-than-expected second-quarter net income to be 93 cents a share on an operating basis, on $2.2 billion in revenues, due to improved revenue trends...

U.S. bank card delinquencies dipped in the first quarter of this year to the lowest level in eight years, reflecting measured improvement in the overall economy. The American Bankers Association said consumer loan delinquencies improved for the third quarter in a row, falling to 2.98 percent...

This will be music to the ears of Paul Krugman – Goldman Sachs calling for Quantitative Easing v2.0 and additional deficit-financed fiscal stimulus. The bank’s chief US economist Jan Hatzius reckons there are enough “disturbing signs” — Friday’s payroll report and recent CPI...

FRANKFURT—The Deutsche Bundesbank and German financial-services regulator BaFin Monday sent stress-test questionnaires to the 16 German banks that will have to participate in the Europe-wide test, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday. Banks had to approve the publication of the...

For now, it´s a simple vola play - set on repeat everytime we are moving above 5900.00. Seems everybody is waiting for FED QE II. For the ones who are not hedged until now, my condolences. :)

Credit Suisse Global Risk Appetite : Risk Appetite lately: Global RA Equity-Only RA US Credit RA 28-Jun-2010 -1.95 -0.47 -1.18 29-Jun-2010 -2.52 -0.59 -1.36 30-Jun-2010 -2.6 -0.38 -1.4 01-Jul-2010 -2.86 -0.48 -1.53 02-Jul-2010 -2.73 -0.14 -1.48...