$77 BILLION FED speculation - $1 BILLION equity market cap speculation
April 13, 2009
$77 billion more to bail out bankrupt gm? | www.dailyfinance.com
Current $77 BILLION FED speculation - $1 BILLION equity market cap speculation places General Motors as risky as the lottery.
GM stock shares still receiving bids with bankruptcy prep
April 7, 2009
gm in "intense" bankruptcy prep: source | www.reuters.com
Our Private Equity firm has experienced tremendous (during the recent trailing 12 months) equity stripping (by market conditions and government interventions), and has left us wondering why would General Motors (GM), a bankruptcy candidate still receive bids? Twenty-Seven (27) millions shares trading as of 3:15 pm eastern. On the other hand Ford (F) shares have rallied (Ninety-Eight (98) million shares trading today) during the recent months and makes more sense for share accumulation, since they rejected TARP funds and have been executing a recovery plan for several years.
April 7, 2009
Taxpayers take 70% of Royal Bank of Scotland | business.timesonline.co.uk
When the take of 70% of anything, including Royal Bank of Scotland's taxpayers take of the equity shares - you own it, others are along for the ride.
March 31, 2009
fdic: 2009 budget executive summary | www.fdic.gov
The strength of a properly estimated budget, and the conviction to execute within budget sends a strong positive fiscal message.
March 30, 2009
text - president obama's remarks on u.s. car industry� | uk.news.yahoo.com
The US president obama's remarks on u.s. car industry has given the green light to the future way of making automobiles.
Prime, sub-prime totally sub-optimal cost of funds margin.
March 27, 2009
HDFC cuts retail prime lending rate | economictimes.indiatimes.com
HDFC (India's largest housing finance company) has attributed the cut in its retail prime lending rate (RPLR) to a reduction in its cost of funds.
The risk of heavy outflows versus reality of transparancy
March 19, 2009
Swiss warn lifting secrecy ‘will take time’ | www.ft.com
Most of the financial community has demanded transparency within publicly traded corporate organizations - which seems appropriate if the public is to risk capital and buy stock of these equities. Now it seems the next directive is following the actual capital and making the global banking repositories provide transparency as well. Switzerland had succumbed to pressure on easing bank secrecy, but the full automatic exchange of tax information, as demanded by countries such as Germany, remained out of the question for Switzerland.
Beyond Credit Enhancement: The Value of Risk Management
March 9, 2009
Buffett Warns Insured Muni Bonds Could Be Next Shoe to Drop | www.tradingmarkets.com
The Bond Buyer headline: A default is a default, is a default, is a default. For bond issues most vulnerable to fiscal stresses, monoline insurers "write themselves into the indenture," with surveillance rights, reporting requirements and -- most imprtantly -- covenants and remedies more akin to an (old fashioned) bank loan than a bond issue. Especially with their portfolios of insured risks under stress, the monolines will aggressively exercise those rights as proxy for bondholders, so insured bondholders should be, generally, better protected. If, in his haste to cash in on the market opportunity in muni bond insurance, Buffett missed this basic element of the business, then BHAC's loss experience could be much worse than predicted.
March 9, 2009
HBOS, RBS U.K. Deposits Fell; Government Banks Gained | www.bloomberg.com
The US Senator Dodd has suggested a $500 Billion line of credit for the FDIC. FDIC chair Shelia Bair has acknowledged a good idea for US depositors would be to continue the higher ($250k) FDIC Insurance limits on depositors bank deposit principal.
Business Risk Management First - Before Quant or Qual
March 9, 2009
Deutsche Bank’s Quantitative Team to Leave, Start Hedge Fund | www.bloomberg.com
Some of the The Frankfurt- based bank's DWS funds have recently suspended dividends due to previously exposed risk and current market conditions (1). Further, the Frankfurt- based bank, will cut risk by shifting resources from areas such as proprietary trading after “unprecedented market conditions revealed some weaknesses” in trading operations. (1) DWS RREEF Real Estate Fund, Inc. (AMEX:SRQ - News) and DWS RREEF Real Estate Fund II, Inc. (AMEX:SRO - News) (the “Funds”) announced today that they will not declare any distributions to common shareholders in March 2009 because market conditions have resulted in a decline in portfolio values causing the Funds to currently not meet the preferred share asset coverage ratio that is a precondition to the declaration of common share distributions under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
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