In what must gladden our and even Paul Krugman’s hearts, just two weeks ago a paper from our PM namesake and IMF Economist Manmohan Singh appeared to taser thru fixed income traders’ consciousness on the unlikely subject of Floating rate…
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US Economy: Higher Interest rates are here (likely!) and that guarantees growth
US Economy (EoD Review) : Crude build continued, 30 year yield shoots up to 3.38% (Auction)
A Hurrah for the going away of Daylight Savings as now the EOD review of Economic Data can come to you near market closing on most days. Especially on dull deal days like this as US Deals are down 60%…
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Tagged with: BTG Pactual, Economic Data, Fed, Finance, Petroleum, Prince William, Structured finance, United States Department of the Treasury, United States Treasury security, Venezuela
Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, Global, US
Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, Global, US
A leap of faith: Why Portugal does not need a second bailout | Europe Review and Insight
While Spanish and Italian bonds are back in liquidity with yields for Italian bonds down to 1.2% for 6 months and 5.26% for 10 year bonds, just availability of quotes on the soveregns means that there are active buyers and…
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Tagged with: Debt, ECB, European Central Bank, European Commission, Finance, Greece, International Monetary Fund, Portugal
Posted in Financial Markets
Posted in Financial Markets
The Private Equity Bonus Roulette: KKR pays itself as a dozen go into active investigations
Valuation concerns flagged by the SEC in a Conference earlier this month haven’t subsided as SEC gets into checking the antecedents of all internal and external valuation done by Private Equity industry among other documentation and processes it is verifying…
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Tagged with: Bain Capital, Carlyle, Finance, Financial Services, KKR, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Leveraged buyout, Mitt Romney, Private Equity, SEC, Silicon Valley
Posted in Financial Markets
Posted in Financial Markets
Ally Financial bothered with rebranding as GM? | Deal insight
The GMAC ‘outlet’ Ally Financial that has just stopped selling GMAC loands in Massachussets, is only 73.8% owned by the Treasury but for just $17 bln of the bailout money and between AIG and Ally, there could be some choice…
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Tagged with: Ally Financial, American International Group, Americredit, Finance, General Motors, GMAC, GMAC ResCap, Initial public offering
Posted in Financial Markets
Posted in Financial Markets
Structured Finance revival key to European Fortunes again? | Levering insight
Seemingly not much of structured finance tranches adding investments and or redeeming this year have options outside the sector as European defaults of structured ABS remain all time lows providing hege funds a good income opportunity in a bleak envisromnment.…
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Tagged with: ABS, Business, Finance, Financial Services, Private placement, Reuters, Standard & Poor, Structured finance
Posted in Financial Markets
Posted in Financial Markets
Mollycoddling banks on default! | Insight China
In a year when ctringent policy action on bans has been replaced by a considered caution in tightening and monetary loosening in policy, th ebanks have been asked to bear the burden of LGFV (LSFs) that were coming dues this…
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Tagged with: Balance sheet, Central bank, European Central Bank, Finance, Government, Loan, Mario Draghi, Quantitative Easing
Posted in Financial Markets
Posted in Financial Markets
A time for Davos rebuttals?
Jamie Dimon was in a more conciliatory mood as he praise dBen Brnanke at Davos after the rush o downgrades JP Morgan issued on Financials this morning. Jamie Dimon speak is of course unrelated and pretty measured but it was…
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Tagged with: Davos, Finance, Greek language, J P Morgan, Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan, Western world, World Economic Forum
Posted in Banking, US
Posted in Banking, US
Bank of America gets impatient with flailing fortunes
Even as the Financials opened their account in 2012 with a 2% rise in Financials in the first few minutes and Bank of America inched closer to a $6 per share price, the Fed’s limitations on the bank in terms…
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Tagged with: Bank, Bank of America, Banking Services, Business, California, Capital requirement, Federal Reserve System, Finance, Financial Services, Judy Johnson, Small business, United States
Posted in Banking, US
Posted in Banking, US
A commercial real estate transaction, but in Australia
Morning headlines in the Big West afforded new opportunities for galloping Economic confidence of the country in Financials stocks even as Bank of America got nearer to the $6 mark. Morgan Stanley’s purchase transaction in the funds management business in…
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Tagged with: Bank of America, Business, Far East, Finance, Investing, Morgan Stanley, Real estate, Uttar Pradesh
Posted in Financial Markets
Posted in Financial Markets
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