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Category: Interest rates, capital markets
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7/22/2025 As markets rise, previous restrictive rules are discarded. The 'What Me Worry' attitude takes hold. The Fear of Missing Out FFOMO becomes widespread. This is a result of positive mood which propels markets higher and higher. The story of zero day to expiration ODTE options is a case in point. Here is an excerpt…
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Friday Aug 16, 2024 Here is why the markets dropped 1,000 points Aug 5
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Monday 12/11/23 WSJ Today Page B1 The U.S. Treasury prefers its debt sales to be humdrum affairs. Lately, they are sparking fireworks in markets. Scrutiny of Treasury auctions—whereby the government funds operations by selling the world’s safest bonds to big banks and dealers—has grown alongside their size. For years, many in Washington and on Wall…
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EWI has commented that the solution to companies with too much debt (25% of russell 2000 stocks cannot meet debt payments) is sure enough, more debt that thought crossed my mind in reading on yahoo finance, goldman heightens chances of recession and specifically how CS is saved that's great if the swiss…
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CS is still reeling from its $5 B + loss in Archegos. Not many want its stock now priced at $3.557 or 30% of book value. So what to do, how does CS raise captial? CS bought First Boston in 1988. First Boston was a legendary investment banking name having begun at the depths of…
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Thursday Oct 28 2021 At $27 Trillion, China has a lot of corporate debt. China has a massive amount of corporate debt. At $27 trillion, it boasts a debt-to-GDP ratio of 159%, almost 60% higher than the global rate and nearly twice that of the US, according to research published this month by S&P Global Ratings.…
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Monday August 23, 2021 The vision mission statements of TAMUSA COB suggest you are being prepared for a global economy, well here goes. (Bloomberg) — China Huarong Asset Management Co.’s credit rating was cut by Moody’s Investors Service to Baa2 from Baa1, and the borrower remains on watch for a potential further downgrade.Click for full…
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Friday Sept 6, 2019 China and the United States on Thursday agreed to hold high-level talks in early October in Washington, cheering investors hoping for a trade war thaw as new U.S. tariffs on Chinese consumer goods chip away at global growth. Reuters The DJIA rose over 400 points on that news.…
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Friday July 26, 2019 Despite all the publicity the FED Chair gets, all he or she does is follow the two year Treasury Note. Our friends at Elliott Wave make that point in this article.
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Tuesday Dec 4, 2018 As we say in the ethics class, the CEO sets the tone at the top. And WFC just cannot seem to shake the never ending run of bad news and mismanagement. Now WFC is blaming a computer glitch for paper work that resulted in hundreds of home foreclosures. Read the link…
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