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2012 Mid Year World economy towards the path of Bailouts & Bankruptcies

Filed under: Economies — 1 Comment
June 30, 2012

Well its the last day of the month and the world economy standing in the mid of year 2012. Lets try to pull the events by connecting the dots and see where the world is :
1) After months weeks years of posturing and denial Spain and Cyprus formally requested aid from Europe bailout funds. More so they have officially confessed to their insolvency and the insolvency of their banking system.
Spain 10 year bond yield breached the worst level and it touched the 7% in return many od the Spain bank ratings got junk by Moodys

2) Over in the US, the city of Stockton, California filed for bankruptcy this week… View full article »

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JP Morgan Series :

Filed under: Financial Crisis — 1 Comment
May 14, 2012

Picking up from the CDX.NA.IG indices are composed of 125 North American corporate credits that are investment grade when the index begins trading understanding JP Morgan loss. As derivative’s are zero sum game so if JP Morgan lost $2 billion from April 2012, than who made a $2 billion profit in the same time, well I don’t know.May be some unidentified hedge funds apparently. It was like once the sharks smelled blood in the water, they started betting against the whale, making his losses much bigger. The huge size that traders were complaining about

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Understanding JP Morgan Loss

Filed under: Financial Crisis — 6 Comments
May 12, 2012

Leading financial media broke the story on thursday night about the $2bn trading loss on credit derivatives trading, which chief executive Jamie Dimon blamed on errors,sloppiness and bad judgement” and warned “could get worse”.

Well the Centre of loss in non other than bank’s chief investment office (CIO).It is responsible for managing and offsetting the vast amounts of “credit exposure” the bank incurs through its daily View full article »

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Leverage is good or bad

Filed under: Economies, Financial Crisis — 1 Comment
April 25, 2012

As I have been continuously posting on the Credit derivatives these days thought of sharing a post that  I did early in 2008 when the face of Investment banking completely changed after sub-prime crisis. 

There was an era  when Investment banking (IB) was on the role … hefty packages, luxurious life, dream job for a financial student were some of the features of IB. Over the years evolved as a very big concept coined by the US, In India we use to call that as a merchant banking .

Goldman Sachs, Bear stern, Morgan Stanly, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch were the 5 icons which use to shine at the wall street over the period of time. View full article »

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More on OTC derivatives reform :

Filed under: Economies, Financial Crisis — 2 Comments
April 24, 2012

As I am trying to communicate from my last post that the market for OTC derivatives is mammoth in size. I have tried to put my views in my past articles over OTC.Derivatives Central Clearning & Dodd – Frank .Central Clearning Of derivatives & Dodd – Frank continues… , Credit derivatives Cat bonds & Cat Swaps ,OTC derivative series CDS, Bonds and Basis Trade

I got the opportunity to read one of the recent paper on Reforming the OTC derivatives market by William C Dudley .

Dudley believes the pre-crisis OTC derivatives market needed reform. Let’e examine his case. View full article »

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A Prop Trader or Rogue Trader

Filed under: Commodities Markets, Economies, Trending Brokers — 5 Comments
April 4, 2012

People talk a lot about prop traders but many of them know and many don’t know about them. Last night I was reading an article in The Guardian an interview by Quant trader recalled my short experience that I lived as a Prop Trader.

We play with the money that’s the shortest version what a prop trader do.There are two kinds of traders in the financial institutions.
1)  Market-makers use their client’s money to make money for those clients, taking a commission.
2) Then there are prop traders like me beg you pardon I was. We use cash given to us by the bank to make money for the firm. View full article »

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Credit Default Swaps & Greece Default Event

Filed under: Economies, Financial Crisis, Trending Brokers — 3 Comments
March 12, 2012

This weekend  financial media was concentrating on the credit event of Greece.Greece has officially defaulted on its debt to private lenders. It was an “orderly” default, negotiated rather than simply announced. This formal default on about $100 billion triggered payment of $3 billion in credit-default swaps.

One of the washington post tried to revealed that Insurance and CDS are different, CDS should never be treated like insurance, as its Mandatory for the insurance company to make reserve against insurance that it has issued on the other hand Credit Default swaps (CDS) is naked gambling. View full article »

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Greek credit event has occurred, CDS payments triggered : source ISDA

Filed under: Economies, Finance Awareness — 3 Comments
March 9, 2012

Was thinking to do the post in the morning but had enough evidence to share it now.
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) today announced that its EMEA Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee resolved unanimously that a Restructuring Credit Event has occurred with respect to The Hellenic Republic (Greece).

The EMEA DC resolved that a Restructuring Credit Event has occurred under Section 4.7(a) of the ISDA 2003 Credit Derivatives Definitions (as amended by the July 2009 Supplement) following the exercise by The Hellenic Republic of collective action clauses to amend the terms of Greek law governed bonds issued by The Hellenic Republic such that the right of all holders of the Affected Bonds to receive payments has been reduced. The details are available on ISDA website .

It means there will be a net $3.2bn pay-out on CDS contracts, View full article »

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Europe is Freezing !! Defrost needed for Greece soon

Filed under: Economies, Financial Crisis — 1 Comment
February 8, 2012

Yesterday Merkel quoted all EURO countries must contribute to fight the crisis, seems too bad all but Germany are broke, she also said that European nations will need to cede more power to EU and back to feudalism.Now the ball is in the Greece court.

A new proposal by ECB was that, ECB would tender its bonds in to Greek debt exchange and would help greek to achieve to save approx 11 billion Euros. The condition holds true is that ECB has approx 50 billion euro of Greek bonds, so that will allow Greece to have 39 billion euro of debt instead of 50 billion euro, saving approximately 11 billion euros.
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Europe under Fire by Fitch & Facebook All set too Fire

Filed under: Economies, Financial Crisis, Market - Outlook — 11 Comments
January 28, 2012

http://sandyyadav.comThe dark clouds are hanging over Europe, and there are rumors that Greece may Exit Euro. Yesterday Fitch the rating agency dented and downgrades Spain and Italy each by two notches, Belgium by one. Ireland affirmed at BBB+. Luck of the Irish! it was like a bomb but it was already discounted by the market  and market not surprised by Fitch downgrades Euro remained higher against Dollar even after downgrades.

But Fitch was not a news maker, it was non other than Facebook raised the curtains which is ready all set for IPO filing, here is the big estimate whether market will discount this or not.They say $100B now… it will bump up to $115B by time of IPO… then $130B on first day out….
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