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Seen that? - Up march Option Expiration
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 25, 2009
...hrough out this Week...The top in the Major indexes that started last week has been side tracked by derivatives traders. The down trend will resume next week. For the Traders out there that use R.N. [...
Sen. Dodd's New Banking Bill Would Reshape the Financial World
in Bizinformer, on November 11, 2009
...ngress in the wake of the housing crisis, problems with the creative structuring of financial derivatives, the credit crunch, record bank failures, and the collapse of financial institutions like Lehm...
Obama dismantles post-Enron reforms
in Sox First, on November 5, 2009
... rules. But this latest waiver is consistent with the administration's toothless approach to fixing derivatives and determination to codify the too-big-to-fail mantra in legislation. It's all part of ...
Did brilliant minds create the recession?
in Sox First, on October 18, 2009
...s a point raised by Calvin Trillin in the New York Times . Brilliant people entered the world of derivatives and credit default swaps, lured by the prospect of the kind of money they could never ma...
Michael Moore's attack on capitalism
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
...all Street to do this and they've played with people's money and taken it into these crazy areas of derivatives. They need more than just regulation. We need to structure ourselves differently in orde...
Derivatives time bomb for big banks
in Sox First, on July 26, 2009
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Derivatives, the weapons of mass destruction as Warren Buffett called them that nearly destroyed AIG last year, are still threatening the US financial system. The Wall Street Journal reports th...
Derivatives tripped up regulators: Geithner
in Sox First, on July 12, 2009
...imothy Geithner is pushing the Obama administration's plans to regulate the exotic and opaque derivatives market, something that's long overdue. Let's face it, the US Government wasn'...
The new carbon bubble
in Sox First, on July 12, 2009
...might be looking at another bubble. A Friends of the Earth report , cap and trade is just another derivatives market. "Currently, most carbon is sold as futures or forward contracts, a type of ...
Ratings agency crackdowns
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
...ence fraud and deceit and as Frank Partnoy, a professor at the San Diego School of Law and a former derivatives trader told Bloomberg , we need to work out a way of weaning investors and regulato...
Geithner's push for power and the law of unexpected outcomes
in Sox First, on March 27, 2009
...mothy Geithner is moving to tighten up the rules for monster hedge funds, private- equity firms and derivatives markets, it's worth looking at what's ahead and whether we should be preparing f...
Interview with Warren McGregor, IASB board member
in Sox First, on March 11, 2009
...d do something about it. The one they are talking about at the moment is technical area is embedded derivatives, embedded in synthetic CDOs. In respect of a very limited circumstance, US GAAP does not...
Warnings from Buffett
in Sox First, on March 3, 2009
... in the same boat." As always, he warns that the banking sector's dependence and usage of derivatives is dangerous. "Receivables and payables by the billions become concentrated in the ...
Madoff and the conspiracy of silence
in Sox First, on February 17, 2009
...hyster but kept shtum. "Leon Gross, the former managing director in charge of worldwide equity derivatives research for Citigroup, told friends and colleagues on Wall Street in 2005 that he thoug...
Obama's options
in Sox First, on January 26, 2009
...nt will move quickly to tighten financial regulations. We can expect stricter rules particularly on derivatives, like credit default swaps. There will be more regulation in these areas. But for now, ...
The meltdown's rogue gallery
in Sox First, on January 26, 2009
...op as a result of his low interest rates, who failed to regulate mortgage lending, who defended the derivatives business which mushroomed under his regime and who backed sub-prime lending and urged ho...
PCAOB to auditors: turn up the heat
in Sox First, on December 9, 2008
...ctually coming clean. And fair value will shape up as a critical issue, particularly in relation to derivatives. PCAOB chairman Mark Olson, according to this report , has warned auditors they will n...
Rubin's self-serving "innocence"
in Sox First, on December 1, 2008
...the Depression-era laws barring banks from becoming investors. He also opposed attempts to regulate derivatives. What we are now seeing is part of his legacy....
Tim Geithner: crisis manager
in Sox First, on November 23, 2008
...ed years ago that trouble was ahead. Three years ago, he warned about the risks in hedge funds and derivatives : "The substantial increase in the role of hedge funds in our financial system also...
AIG's bigger bailout
in Sox First, on November 10, 2008
...e worrying part is that we don't yet know what will happen with those credit default swaps, the derivatives that brought the whole thing crashing down. "The government may be betting that it...
Accounting regulators protecting banks
in Sox First, on November 6, 2008
...little trick called reclassification. By reclassifying the warrants as permanent equity rather than derivatives, the gains and losses don't show up in the earnings. As Bloomberg columnist Jonath...
Deutsche Bank's accounting shell games
in Sox First, on November 5, 2008
... it won't solve the problem. When financial markets were up, such assets as loans, securities, derivatives, mortgages, property, also rose in value, showing the banks to be strongly capitalized. ...
Competing for bailouts
in Sox First, on October 27, 2008
...f the big banks want our help, we should demand stricter oversight, particularly of the unregulated derivatives markets. Our cash should come with a bright light. Otherwise, we'll just have more o...
Forecasts of the economic disaster
in Sox First, on October 13, 2008
...ir most severe crisis in the last quarter of a century"), Warren Buffett five years ago ("Derivatives generate reported earnings that are often wildly overstated and based on estimates whose...
Can the bailout fix things?
in Sox First, on September 29, 2008
...er the ultimate bust. That's important, because thanks to the massive manufacturing and sale of derivatives, there has never been a boom supported to such a large degree by thin air. And since the...
There's worse ahead - central bankers
in Sox First, on July 2, 2008
...rt also condemns the high level of financial innovation, through various debt instruments , like derivatives which it says have had "calamitous side-effects". Earlier this year, I examine...
3CX PBX For Windows
in The VoIP Weblog, on June 26, 2008
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I suppose this is good if you're not comfortable with Linux-based solutions like Asterisk (and derivatives), but I am failing to see what is particularly innovative about this product other than ...
Skincare Tips from NYC Aesthetician Andrea DeSimone
in Are you a beauty?, on May 29, 2008
...heck the ingredient list and avoid trigger ingredients like sodium Laurel sulfate, petroleum derivatives, parabens and synthetic fragrances, colors or dyes.
3. Keep your hair off your face at ...
Fraudulent firms and lobbying
in Sox First, on April 8, 2008
...atural gas, allowing certain types of debt off the book, and blocking government regulations on its derivatives trading. At the same time, these fraudulent firms pay big bucks. About $3 billion of in...
Greenspan's Bubbles
in Sox First, on March 19, 2008
...d, according to Fleckenstein, he championed the technology and financial innovations in the form of derivatives, asset-backed securities , collateralized loan obligations and collateralized mort...
Top 10 big business risks for 2008
in Sox First, on March 17, 2008
...rs and cyber-terrorism; the growing complexity of financial innovations such as securitizations and derivatives; legal risk, particularly with environmental liability, managerial liability where aggri...
High finance, complexity and disaster
in Sox First, on March 5, 2008
...s around the world. All created by complex financial innovation and new fangled forms of money like derivatives. There's a lot of benefits from it. Risk is better allocated and people and companie...
U, V, W or L - recession letters
in Sox First, on February 28, 2008
...orate debt have hardly started. Finally, there are the more esoteric losses on credit insurance and derivatives. When all this is done, we expect total losses of about $1.4 trillion globally, or 2.5% ...
Subprime mess: where was the SEC?
in Sox First, on February 7, 2008
...Forbes . As she points out, the regulators have always had the power to stop the banks from selling derivatives and complex securities. Why didn't they act before? They had been reluctant to hesit...
Buffett bonding
in Sox First, on January 3, 2008
Interesting questions raised from The Wall Street Journal's scoop last week that Warren Buffett plans to make a buck out of the turmoil in the financial markets by establishing a bond insurance firm with the goal of giving local governments a cheaper borrowing option. The business will guar...
End of the boomers? Bring on the leeches
in Sox First, on December 19, 2007
...ortgage, corporate), plus America's share of the debt hidden inside the $300 trillion in global derivatives, what Pimco's Bill Gross warns is a high-risk 'shadow' banking system, the u...
Subprime everywhere
in Sox First, on November 20, 2007
...idential homes. And just as true for the big Wall Street players selling each other all those fancy derivatives. The mortgage brokers who offered no-money-down loans to customers with no documentation...
Wall Street to be hit by a Level Three Storm
in Sox First, on November 8, 2007
...ized credit card obligations, leveraged buyout bridge loans, asset backed commercial paper, complex derivatives contracts, credit default swaps. And that spells disaster for the banks, he says. "...
Fear and loathing on Wall Street
in Sox First, on November 2, 2007
...rers who insure mainstream debt instruments, such as subprime mortgages and their associated credit derivatives. Investors are selling out because they're worried the insurers won't have enoug...
O'Neal's $160 million parachute: Merrill Lynch's reward for failure
in Sox First, on October 31, 2007
... the bank into its biggest loss for years by exposing it to bad deals in subprime mortgages, credit derivatives and leveraged loans. Let's cut to the chase here. Instead of sacking him and forcin...
UAE Hedge Fund Invesments Increase
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 26, 2007
... plan to increase their holdings in alternative investments such as private equity, hedge funds and derivatives in the next three years, according to a new global report published by Barclays Wealth.
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Biodegradable Nanoparticles For Delivery of Cancer Drugs
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 25, 2007
...yethylene glycol (PEG) chains which are attached to recently developed components: lactic acid derivatives of polymethacrylamides. These new chains possess the unique combined property of biodegr...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 26
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 23, 2007
...e'."
I won't go into it here, but Buffett spends a long time explaining the danger of derivatives, a subject most of us can not get our heads around. Buffett's explanation clears it ...
Hedging and Communism?
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 23, 2007
...sion funds' investments, and bet on the level of interest rates or the stock market. Trading in derivatives by investment banks, hedge funds, and other market participants, reaps huge profits for ...
Six strategies for risky innovations
in Sox First, on October 16, 2007
...there is also the danger of being wiped out. It applies to all sorts of financial innovations, from derivatives to sub-prime mortgages. The best way to deal with it is to understand the nature of the...
Ginger Extract May Treat E. coli Diarrhea
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 2, 2007
...nduced diarrhea.
"In conclusion, our findings provide evidence that Ginger and its derivatives may be effective herbal supplements for the clinical treatment of enterotoxigenic Escher...
Three steps to tackling the new financial risks
in Sox First, on August 22, 2007
...peration between the supervisory bodies, getting the ratings agencies to improve their modelling of derivatives and investors showing better Risk management capabilities. If it's left unche...
Bear markets and the Rumsfeld effect
in Sox First, on August 12, 2007
...at US mortgages are more than just home loans . They are platforms for banks to hang a lot of derivatives off, which means the risk is spread around. And that's where the problem lies. The ...
Recent Hedge Fund Launches
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on July 23, 2007
...ounced the launch of its new Global Synthetic Prime sales and trading group within its Equities and Derivatives business. The group is headed by Rich Sansaricq who is based in New York and has the res...
INSPIRATION FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHERS
in Digital Shot, on May 29, 2007
...realistically achievable in your own work.
Check out this blog and get some fresh ideas, or create derivatives of your own from these innovative pictures .
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Nanotube Aerogel Can Hold 8000 Times Its Own Weight
in Nanotechbuzz, on May 25, 2007
...ium. Nanotube aerogel will be especially useful because it blocks heat, a trait that other nanotube derivatives lack....
Hedge Funds & Strategy
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 26, 2007
...vor in the crowd.
global macro - Investing in shifts between global economies , often using derivatives to speculate on interest-rate or currency moves.
Market neutral : Typically , equal amo...
Naturally Occurring Peptide in Human Blood Can Block HIV
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 24, 2007
...ges in the fragment enhanced its antiretroviral potency by two orders of magnitude.
VIRIP and its derivatives remained effective against drug-resistant HIV strains, making them "highly p...
The Wild, Wild World Of Hedge Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 10, 2007
...by 2010.
*Hedge funds can employ whatever investing tools they want, including leverage, the use of derivatives like options and futures, and short sales.
*Practically all financial institutions use t...
New Hedge Fund Regulations in Bahrain
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 9, 2007
... new regulations that they hope will open up the development of a regional industry of hedge funds, derivatives and other alternative investment instruments.
The new framework will create a new categ...
Hedge Fund Executive
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 3, 2007
...museum.
For the past year or so, Citadel has been investing in China and making big bets on credit derivatives....
Nick Leeson wants to come back
in Sox First, on March 9, 2007
...their money. What all that says is that Leeson still remains a committed gambler. And working as a derivatives trader would be right up his sleeve because essentially what you are doing is placing be...
New Hedge Fund Platform
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on March 7, 2007
... SuperDerivatives announced the launch of First Cross-Asset, Turnkey Derivatives Platform for Hedge Funds and Asset Managers.
SD-Funds said in a press release that the platform is a breakthrough i...
Heads of US Hedge Fund Study Group Warn Against Over Regulation
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on March 2, 2007
...said that U.S. authorities must take care not to stifle financial innovation by over-regulating the derivatives and hedge fund industries.
"I would be very reluctant to get involved in heavy-ha...
The link between fraud and lobbying
in Sox First, on February 21, 2007
...atural gas, allowing certain types of debt off the book, and blocking government regulations on its derivatives trading. Now a new study has found that fraudulent firms spend more on lobbying, and us...
Liver X Receptor: A Dual Role Glucose Sensor
in Straightfromthedoc, on December 30, 2006
...f dietary components, determining the body's response to nutrients like oxysterols (short-lived derivatives of cholesterol) and controlling gene expression linked to cholesterol and fat metabolism...
Plant-Derived Lead Compound Against Malaria Liver Stages
in The Biotech Weblog, on December 28, 2006
... , to be active against the liver stages of human and mouse malaria .
One of its semisynthetic derivatives, NCP-tazopsine , completely protected mice from a challenge with malarial parasites, an...
Nick Leeson blames the banks
in Sox First, on December 27, 2006
...e Singapore office, was employed by Barings to profit from low risk arbitrage opportunities between derivatives contracts on the Singapore Mercantile Exchange and Japan's Osaka Exchange. He ended ...
Heparin Derivatives: Drug Candidates Against Alzheimers Disease
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 27, 2006
Scientists are exploring the use of heparan sulphates, long-chain sugars naturally found in the body, to precent the amyloid plaques that are charateristic of Alzheimer's disease.
"We have developed a new class of compounds called 'engineered heparins' that could possibly be d...
Creative Commons: 140 Million Files Strong
in Digital Music - The Future, on October 23, 2006
...freely downloaded, played, shared, and distributed. Individual licenses may limit commercial use or derivatives, or require attribution. flikr , for example, provides its millions of photos unde...
Creative Commons: 140 Million Files Strong
in P2P File Sharing, on October 23, 2006
...freely downloaded, played, shared, and distributed. Individual licenses may limit commercial use or derivatives, or require attribution. flikr , for example, provides its millions of photos unde...
Spanish Company to Produce BioPetroleum
in IfEnergy, on August 5, 2006
...dvantages of petroleum, without the disadvantages such as carbon dioxide emission and other harmful derivatives. Read more about this development by clicking on this link .
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Latest in Diabetes Treatment: Cow Excrement
in Daily Diabetic, on June 30, 2006
... and skin diseases.
Sri Narayana Bhat Swamiji is on a mission to promote local breeds and use cows derivatives to prepare 16 varieties of medicines for major diseases. He said that the first urinatio...
Wall Street Kicks You in the Crotch
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 22, 2006
...e and more of its time and money on investing in instruments you & I don't understand, like derivatives, and generally laughing all the way to the bank:
"This shift was obvious last yea...
Accounting and shell games
in Sox First, on March 16, 2006
... in serious accounting Doodoo . And remember Berkshire Hathaway's exposure to General Re's derivatives business which in last year's pullout, cost Berkshire Hathaway $104 million pre-tax ...
.Net Developers Are In Demand
in Java Entrepreneur, on February 3, 2006
...in a given field (say, a firm looking for a .NET developer experienced in using software related to derivatives) they might snag a salary hike of 15 percent or more when they switch jobs.
Those who wo...
