curious, does anyone know why the begin and end dates for the HE7-22 for today are yesterday (8/26), and there isn't even a product with start and...
It's allegedly been reported that 3 Goldman Sachs traders were observed ordering dessert at Haimchinkels Deli, while a hungry homeless ex-con...
I was browsing the bloomie, and it looks like someone accumulated 1700 contracts in 2 trades: 10k on Friday and another 7k today. notional value:...
Does anyone have thoughts on these? In an OMO, is the Fed buying from the primaries? Or placing orders in a bond pit somewhere? Looks like...
Iâm trying to rationalize why Fixed Price Power becomes so illiquid (relative to PJM or NE, NY, etc.) in TX as soon as you get more than a few...
How do you mark a heat rate to market? Letâs say I enter into a 10MW 7x24 HR swap for November at 8. So if I pull my position apart, I...
I was reading this over on zerohedge: http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/06/recent-average-cds-auction-recovery.html#disqus_thread The auction...
report after report, I see huge US treasury bond holdings in the Caribbean. http://www.treas.gov/tic/mfh.txt Who is it? Is it the fed in...
need to rant... I called them (citibank mastercard) this morning to find out why my gasoline transaction was declined. Turns out I had sent...
I thought I remembered someone recently opining that gas will head back down towards 2 after this short spike up. I personally think...
Been reading about this on zerohedge: http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/05/gm-is-officialy-wiping-out-common.html Cliffs notes: GM...
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nation_ready_to_be_lied_to_about?utm_source=a-section really very funny (and sadly, true).
Can anyone offer a 30 sec synopsis of what happened at Chrysler, specifically regarding the taxpayer money given them a couple of months ago?...
Is there an easy way to find out what the CDS exposure is on Chrysler, and who the counterparties are? Will there be an auction to assess the...
I just finished this book. Any thoughts on whether it bears any relevance in today's heavily regulated market environment? If so, what points of...
This may be a stupid question, but who is it that's having credit events that are triggering CDS's to pay out? We all keep reading about Govt...
Can anyone recommend some good reading about trading Gas, Power and/or crude? I've read and re-read Fletcher Sturm's "Trading Natural Gas," and...
Of all the folks on here I am the probably the least of a conspiracy theorist, but... AIG has 116,000 employees, according to Google Finance....
By borrowing the security from the owner, lending it it to a "shorter" in exchange for a fee and collateral, and then mis-investing the cash...
Does anyone have further details on this? According to Earth Times : On November 10, 2008, AIG and the FRBNY established Maiden Lane III, a...
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