I feal like a total idiot for covering my short hedge before the FED anoouncement. Ahhh!!!
Quote from DeepFried:
S&P announcement along with FGIC announcement - huge, huge fear about the ongoing viabilty of our financial system. After all this time, literally years of worry about subprime, still, no one knows what the total liability is. It's a very scary unknown and there's no evidence that the powers that be even know what the hell is going on much less any evidence that they're going to do anything about it.
Quote from Landis82:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=am2Nk1VM5YsA&refer=home
S&P downgrade or reduction in ratings on $534 BILLION in CDO's and sub-prime mortgage securities.
Could lead to more write-downs.