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'Super SIV' fund seen as device for ingratiating banks with the government
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2007-11-26 12:31 Section: Daily DispatchesBank of America Takes Lead
in Backing 'Super SIV' Fund
By David Mildenberg and Christopher Condon
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, November 26, 2007
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=afLswJw550m8&refer=home
Dollar displaces yen, Swiss franc as favorite for carry-trade funding
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2007-11-25 23:42 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Bo Nielsen
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, November 26, 2007
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aWMXWN6PFHa4
NEW YORK -- Using the dollar to pay for purchases of currencies with higher yields is proving to be the most profitable trade in the foreign-exchange market.
Antal Fekete: Our diseased monetary bloodstream
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2007-11-25 18:59 Section: Daily Dispatches6:54p ET Sunday, November 25, 2007
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Dollar's fall is now a bigger political issue than an economic one
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2007-11-25 11:16 Section: Daily DispatchesBet Your Bottom Dollar Tensions Will Follow
By Liam Halligan
The Telegraph, London
Sunday, November 25, 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/11/25/ccliam...
Will Europe impose exchange controls to head off disaster?
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2007-11-23 20:31 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Friday, November 23, 2007
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/business/ambrosevanspritchard/nov07/europe-...
Trichet has plenty of helicopters too
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2007-11-23 19:59 Section: Daily DispatchesECB Set to Pump More Cash into Money Markets
By Ralph Atkins, Ivar Simensen, and David Oakley
Financial Times, London
Friday, November 23, 2007
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6a8adc9a-99b7-11dc-ad70-0000779fd2ac.html?ncli...
Credit 'heart attack' strikes China and Korea
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2007-11-22 17:46 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Thursday, November 22, 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/11/21/bcnasi...
The global credit crisis has hit Asia with a vengeance for the first time, triggering a massive flight to safety as investors across the region pull out of risky assets.
European banks suspend trading in mortgage bonds
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2007-11-22 13:11 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Esteban Duarte and Steve Rothwell
Bloomberg News Service
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aTCTOhu0Jxk8
European banks agreed to suspend trading in the $2.8 trillion market for mortgage debt known as covered bonds to halt a slump that has closed the region's main source of financing for home lenders.
Securities market rigging is taken for granted
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2007-11-22 12:02 Section: Daily Dispatches12:02p ET Thursday, November 22, 2007
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Credit derivatives market grows by nearly half in six months
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2007-11-22 11:46 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Kabir Chibber
Bloomberg News Service
Thursday, November 22, 2007
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a58EF32GpHeg&refer=home
The market for derivatives grew at the fastest pace in at least nine years to $516 trillion in the first half of 2007, the Bank for International Settlements said.
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