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...However, Weinstein et al say they are excited to a large extent because those aforementioned risks are now materialising. As private credit investors, this is the environment we’ve been waiting for....
...Here’s Citi’s Andrew Coombs et al. then: For the European banks, we see less risk of deposit flight and believe they have more liquid balance sheets....
...In the US, at least, mom-and-pop investors and advisers build portfolios with the categories used by Morningstar et al....
...Prosecute fraud, maybe regulate crypto exchanges like casinos, and keep the SEC et al out of it. This is a disagreement about how to cordon off crypto so that when crypto burns, it is controlled....
...On the other hand: when has supermodel Gisele Bündchen ever been wrong about financial matters?...
...up risks in a hard-to-monitor corner of the financial system....
...“Clearly, we’re in a challenging negotiation,” Al Kelly told the Financial Times....
...both sides of the Atlantic, one key financial hub has missed out: Japan....
...Revenue derives from selling the gas and claiming a federal tax credit worth $35 for each tonne of carbon put underground. But future growth hinges on far more widespread deployment....
...court cases Name: Donald J Trump for President, Inc et al v....
...As Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, said: “You don’t want to waste a crisis.”...
...USA Inc — in other words offering a dire signal on the outlook”....
...Louis Dreyfus Company has named Patrick Treuer, a former Credit Suisse investment banker, as its new chief financial officer in the latest management reshuffle at the grain trader. More here....
...Overnight, the Federal Reserve had spent $85bn to bail out the huge insurance company AIG, which had unwisely guaranteed much credit now sitting on banks’ books....
...Makan Delrahim, the DoJ head of antitrust, recently told the Financial Times that he believes “data is an important asset”....
...It saw further adoption by those who saw it as a way out of hyper-inflating local currencies (Venezuela et. al), and now price is increasingly being driven by speculation on an appreciating asset (a new...
...Credit Suisse urged to look at aspects of break-up plan This week the Financial Times reported that RBR Capital Advisors, a small Swiss hedge fund, had acquired a stake of about 0.3 per cent in Credit Suisse...
...Funds may have sold out of Valeant, Apple et al before the rot set in....
...— Recent research by Gorton et . al about the form and role of banks as maturity transformers and creators of “private money” is very relevant to this discussion....
...We might call this the partial “disintegration” of the financial system....
...The court’s decision today in Starr International Company, Inc. v. the United States recognizes that AIG’s shareholders are not entitled to compensation for that decision, and that the Federal Reserve’s...
...Facebook et al may not need the intellectual capital, but they sure needed their cash....
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...They have the wherewithal, and they have the financial interest to do it. They only need to wake up.”...
...Returning to that theme of sticky risk, the search for yield and returns and what happens when the Federal Reserve et al point towards the exit, here are some charts of the divergence between fundamentals...
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