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Michael Lewis calls the End

A fantastic article by Michael Lewis called “The End“, on That’s when Eisman finally got it. Here he’d been making these side bets with Goldman ...

ABX and CMBX: Meltdown

As I’d mentioned in a post one week ago, the ABX indices were hitting lows. Today I checked again, and every single price is at all time lows. The ABX ...

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 ...

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 ...

Readings: Shorting oneself, and No Loan For Google

Michael Lewis: This hedge fund manager tried to short himself As the trading room filled with smoke, and acquired that only sweet smell I know that is not ...

ECB Rules Relaxed: RBI

RBI has relaxed the ECB regulations in a notice posted today: 3. Henceforth, ECB up to USD 500 million per borrower per financial year would be permitted for ...