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Why aren't we seeing fuel price cuts?

Political and Economic nightmare: World going into recession, everyone’s worried about serious asset price deflation, Auto and Steel companies are ...

A gripping story about Dick Fuld and Lehman Brothers (Bloomberg): The end came after months of frantic activity to find a solution — reaching out to, ...

GM At An Inflexion Point, CDS isn’t so bad

Bloomberg: General Motors Says It May Run Out of Operating Cash This Year General Motors Corp., seeking U.S. aid to avoid collapse, said it may not have enough ...

WTF: Business World on RBI

Business World has an article on the RBI: “Lost in Minutiae“. I find glaring inconsistencies in the article, like: The latest measures of the ...

ICICI CDS at 934 bps

Credit Default Swaps on ICICI are trading at 934 bps, according to Markit. Credit default swaps are basically insurance against defaults. What the 934 means is ...

Markit ABX indices still at or near all time lows

Increasing liquidity (TED spread at 2!) hasn’t helped subprime prices it seems. The Markit ABX prices, for 07-2 AAA (The AAA tranche of home equity ABS ...

Three Iceland banks CDS auctions completed, exposure > Lehman

Three auctions for Credit Default Swaps of the three Icelandic banks that failed (Glitnir, Landsbanki and Kaupthing) have been completed today. (CDS is ...

Obama and Market News

First, since everyone already knows, let me be one of the last to congratulate Obama on a thumping victory over McCain. Obama inherits a horrendously bad ...

Reading: RBI messes up Dollar/Rupee

S. Gurumurthy: Dollar on escalator and rupee on ventilator In the four years from 2002-03 to 2005-06 the RBI had purchased $75 billion. When it was buying ...

Short Only Strategy: Expiry and Nifty Short

I have been on a holiday so haven’t updated the SoS. Here’s the status, with positions on ICICI and a Nifty call expired. No rollovers, and now I ...