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By RALPH NADER The derivatives markets of today have become a high stakes casino of unimaginable magnitude. Wall Street’s bets have gone bad, and now the whole financial system is in peril. In a best-case scenario, it appears, the taxpayers will be required to rescue the system from itself. This is why Warren Buffett labeled [...]
LONDON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - European real estate investors have never needed a mature property derivatives market more than they do now. But they have also never been more wary of ... Source: www.guardian.co.uk Taking control Although the government recently showed its willingness to intervene in matters concerning the property industry by a... Source: news.assetz.co.uk Favourites in stable France With...
That's the size of the derivatives market. It was a 'mere' $106 trillion in 2002. [ source ] For an explanation of the hugeness of this market, try Robert Feinman's post or this cartoon .
Some of Wall Street's biggest names sought to regain the initiative in the battle for control of the $54,000bn credit derivatives market by teaming up with InterContinental Exchange, the electronic futures exchange, to create a trading and central clearing counterparty (CCP) platform for credit default swaps
THE TRUE GIBBERISH CZAR DOGGONE IT, YOU BETCHA’ THAT BY FOLLOWING THE AYN RAND LIBERTARIAN PHILOSOPHY, AND COMPLETELY ABANDONING ANY REASONABLE REGULATIONS OF THE DERIVATIVES MARKET, WE CAN COUNT ON WALL STREET TO POLICE ITSELF…. IN OTHER WORDS, I CAN SEE MARKET STABILITY FROM MY BATHTUB.” The New York Times with the story.
FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- A group of leading credit derivative market participants today announced they have joined forces to support a joint global clearing solution for Credit Default Swaps (CDS). Signatories to the letter of intent include The Clearing Corporation, Markit Group, Risk Metrics, and IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) through its subsidiaries, including ICE US Trust,...
This Times story about Alan Greenspan and the sad history of the non-regulation of the derivatives market masks an important point - not all derivatives are created equal. Although the Times does not make a distinction, the scuffling in the...
It’s not like we’re bragging… But it taken until today for the New York Times to notice that: ‘The derivatives market is … theoretically intended to limit risk and ward off financial problems, the contracts instead have stoked uncertainty and actually spread risk amid doubts about how companies value them.’ We have been saying that for weeks: http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1837 - Chenier...
Felix Salmon submits: While I'm reading the front page of the NYT, it's worth noting the latest installment in its crisis series: 3,000 words from Peter Goodman on how Alan Greenspan's lax oversight of the derivatives market got us all into this mess to begin with. The nut graf comes quite a ways in: Mr. Greenspan's legacy may ultimately rest on a more deeply embedded and much less scrutinized phenomenon:...
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has summoned participants in the $55 trillion credit derivatives market to a meeting on Friday, which sources say will focus on determining which clearing house the market will support.
"The derivatives market is $531 trillion , up from $106 trillion in 2002 and a relative pittance just two decades ago." $531 trillion is 50 times greater than the US national debt, more than 500 times The cost of the bailout package. You can draw your own conclusion or metaphor, but I think of iceberg tips and the Titanic. Then again, you may prefer turnips and blood transfusions. So what happens when...
Dixit here. Via our good friend Mike Linksvayer. ---------- Midas Oracle .ORG = Site Map + Archives + Best + Charts + Exchanges + Software + Links + People + Write A Post Or A Page + How To Publish Similar blog posts: Think tanks that talk about prediction markets should walk the walk, as should institutions that laud [...]
In September, the total number of trades in BM&FBOVESPA's variable and fixed income markets reached 6.46 million, with a financial volume of BRL120.96 billion, compared to 4.5 million trades and a financial volume of BRL101.04 billion in August. The Company's derivatives markets (both financial and agricultural) ended September with a total trading volume of 35.39 million contracts, and a notional...
This auction settlement of the value of FNMA and Freddie Mac senior and subordinated debt is probably under-reported good news held over from yesterday: GSE Auction Price Close to Par By Ed Zwirn, Regulation Correspondent The credit derivatives markets have...
The battle for control of the $54,000bn credit derivatives market intensified as CME Group and Citadel, the hedge fund, teamed up to form an electronic marketplace with central counterparty clearing for credit default swaps
