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Lehman CDS Auction: 91.38 cents on the dollar

That’s what Bloomberg says (Lehman Credit-Swap Auction Sets Payout of 91.38 Cents on Dollar). Sellers of credit-default protection on bankrupt Lehman ...

RBI Cuts CRR another 1%, and still needs to pump cash

RBI cuts CRR by another 1%. This will add 60,000 cr. of liquidity into the banking system. From the weekly supplement, it looks like RBI sold about $7.8 ...

More short selling

Some people will not learn. U.S. exchanges may seek to impose a temporary ban on short sales for individual stocks that plunge as regulators seek to rein in a ...

Recapitalize Everything, and more news…

As usual, news: TED spread at 4.51. I don’t even have a metaphor for this. Now Germany to recapitalize banks. It’s the new new thing. “Have ...

Pakistan now in the deep end

It seems there’s a problem in our neighbour’s economy. Facing imminent bankruptcy, terror-stricken Pakistan has dispatched its top finance ...

Iceland cracks, Mobius likes India, Ted Spread and more

There seems to be news all the time nowadays. Iceland now shuts down stock exchange for two days, and creates a new bank. This is a country in bad shape ...

Dow below 10,000

The Dow is currently trading below 10,000 – at 9,800, a level last seen in October 2004. In India, the Sensex went to the lows of September 2006. There ...

RBI Cuts CRR by 0.50%

Effective Oct 11, CRR Is down 0.5%, as per Eco Times. This won’t ease liquidity too much – that will only happen with a repo rate cut, and the RBI ...

Bailouts Everywhere

After Ireland and Greece, Germany guarantees all deposits (translation, bloomberg link) Iceland thinking of a $14 billion rescue (which for Iceland is a LOT of ...

Deposits flying to safety

The lure of guaranteed deposits is here. First, Ireland guarantees all deposits (upto 400 billion euros) at its banks. Then Greece butts in and says me too. ...