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...From Shearson Lehman, Schlosstein brought Susan Wagner and, later, Hugh Frater, two of its smartest mortgage bond specialists....
...Berkshire ploughed $5bn into Goldman Sachs about a week after the collapse of Lehman Brothers....
...After Lehman Brothers collapsed in late 2008, financial markets around the world panicked....
...‘The allegations by Mr Budde were previously raised with Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc and its non-management directors in the spring of 2008....
...years before the collapse of Lehman Brothers, according to data compiled for the Financial Times by Markit....
...Five years on from the Lehman Brothers collapse, political and regulatory errors have made the world’s financial system even more fragile....
...Mortgage approvals have soared to their highest level since the collapse of Lehman Brothers....
...Among the 18 largest US bank holding companies, tier one capital ratios averaged 11.3 per cent at the end of 2012, more than double the level at the end of 2008....
...(Financial Times) “The remnants of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is suing the New York Giants for more than $100 million it says it is owed for a soured interest-rate swap tied to the financing of the football...
...We are five years on from Lehman Brothers’ collapse, which its chief executive Dick Fuld blamed partly on a conspiracy (never proven) of hedge funds....
...Einhorn has a reputation as a savvy sceptic, and had made a very public bet against Lehman Brothers a few months before the company imploded....
...Europe since Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008....
...In 2008 when the average hedge fund fell more than 21 per cent and the S&P 500 slumped 37 per cent, the Preservation and Growth fund surged by more than 12 per cent, stung only in October when Lehman Brothers...
...(FT Alphaville)(Financial Times) “Lehman Brothers has agreed to sell Archstone, the apartment business it bought at the height of the US real estate bubble, to Equity Residential and AvalonBay Communities...
...It was the eve of the “Lehman weekend” when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt....
...JPMorgan fell 2.2 per cent to $44.41 as the bank agreed to pay a $20m fine to settle regulatory allegations levied by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that it mishandled Lehman Brothers’ client funds...
...Managers like John Paulson, who made a huge bet against subprime mortgages, or David Einhorn, who aggressively sold short the shares of Lehman Brothers in a bet that they would go down, while publishing...
...That describes the week just gone, and it also describes the week after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the financial trauma of our times....
...By the time Lehman Brothers hit the wall in 2008, everyone now knows that the western financial system was riddled with moral hazard....
...S&P said the move was “not the result of any company-specific event”....
...Ominously, on this schedule, the chart ends about a month before Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, and utter market chaos ensued....
...A specialist in bonds, Lehman Brothers had been a pioneer in the new wave of mortgage- backed securities that buoyed Wall Street in the 2002–6 period....
...But nearly three years after the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank and the worst of the global financial crisis, the traditional drivers of demand for business jets have failed to bounce the...
...On the eve of another September when banks are starting to eye each other nervously, as they did in the run-up to Lehman Brothers’ collapse in 2008, mere mortals face a rapidly shifting landscape....
...This increasing volatility in commodities and Treasuries is shaking up P&L at hedge funds and banks....
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