A couple of minor technical problems called “business” and “life” have now intruded on my increasingly bogged down publication schedule that, in the interest...
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Facebook IPO Frenzy Costs Main Street More Than $600 Million – Financial Advisor Magazine
Facebook IPO Frenzy Costs Main Street More Than $600 MillionFinancial Advisor MagazineWhile asset managers and hedge funds got to buy Facebook in private trading years before the IPO, small investors had to wait(Bloomberg News) Ryan Cefalu, who lives w...
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Hedge Funds Circle as Japan’s Asset Bubble Grows – Bloomberg
Moneycontrol.comHedge Funds Circle as Japan's Asset Bubble GrowsBloombergIt's limbo, Japanese-style: How low can bond yields go without triggering a meltdown? This question gains urgency as 10-year government yields disappear before the world&#...
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JPMorgan Counterparty Platt Says Bank’s Trading Loss May Widen – San Francisco Chronicle
JPMorgan Counterparty Platt Says Bank's Trading Loss May WidenSan Francisco ChronicleMay 21 (Bloomberg) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. may face even bigger losses on faulty bets in credit markets if Europe's debt crisis worsens, according to one o...
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JPMorgan Counterparty Platt Says Bank’s Trading Loss May Widen – BusinessWeek
ValueWalkJPMorgan Counterparty Platt Says Bank's Trading Loss May WidenBusinessWeekBy Erik Schatzker and Stephanie Ruhle on May 21, 2012 JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) (JPM) may face even bigger losses on faulty bets in credit markets if Europe'...
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JPMorgan Counterparty Platt Says Bank’s Trading Loss May Widen – Bloomberg
BloombergJPMorgan Counterparty Platt Says Bank's Trading Loss May WidenBloombergJPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) may face even bigger losses on faulty bets in credit markets if Europe's debt crisis worsens, according to one of the hedge funds tha...
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France presses for euro area bonds as crisis salve – Reuters
Telegraph.co.ukFrance presses for euro area bonds as crisis salveReutersBy Luke Baker | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France's Francois Hollande will push a proposal for mutualizing European debt at an informal summit of EU leaders in Brussels this week, in...
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Pressure mounts on a reluctant ECB to save euro – MarketWatch
Globe and MailPressure mounts on a reluctant ECB to save euroMarketWatchBy David Marsh, MarketWatch LONDON (MarketWatch) — The euro. It was all supposed to be very simple. “One size fits all!” — for the good of Europe and the world. But it'...
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As One Trader at JPMorgan Sold Risky Contracts, Another One Bought Them – NYTimes.com
For hedge funds that could smell blood in the water, it seemed to be an opportunity to take on JPMorgan Chase and win. It was, in fact, such a sweet trade that even another part of the bank couldn’t pass it up. Even as a trader for JPMorgan in London was selling piles of...
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Moore Bet on JPMorgan Before Losses – BusinessWeek
New York TimesMoore Bet on JPMorgan Before LossesBusinessWeekBy Saijel Kishan on May 16, 2012 Hedge funds Moore Capital Management LLC and Blue Ridge Capital LLC boosted their stakes in JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) (JPM), while Kingdon Capital Manage...
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As One JPMorgan Trader Sold Risky Contracts, Another One Bought Them – New York Times
New York TimesAs One JPMorgan Trader Sold Risky Contracts, Another One Bought ThemNew York TimesBy AZAM AHMED For hedge funds that could smell blood in the water, it seemed to be an opportunity to take on JPMorgan Chase and win. It was, in fact, such a...
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Hedge funds eye further profits from JPMorgan losses – Reuters
Moneycontrol.comHedge funds eye further profits from JPMorgan lossesReutersBy Laurence Fletcher and Tommy Wilkes | LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge funds are holding out for further gains from their bets against JPMorgan's massive position in US credit der...
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Elizabeth Warren: ‘That’s the strongest argument for a modern Glass-Steagall’ – The Washington Post
Ezra Klein interviews Elizabeth Warren- who chaired Congressional oversight panel on TARP and who is now running for the Senate in Massachusetts. EK: I agree that complexity is where lobbyists and lawyers work their dark magic. But when I talk to people in the industry about this, they say that simple rules sound great,...
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Great Timing! Investors Dumped Bearish Bets Most Since 2008 – Bloomberg
As individuals bail out of U.S. stocks at the fastest rate in three decades, professional speculators have cut bearish bets by the most since 2008. Money managers are net short 19,375 contracts on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, down 82 percent from a four-year high in September even after the figure jumped from...
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JPM Appoints Former LTCM Trader And Chairman Of TBAC As Replacement | ZeroHedge
Now… Matt Zames… Matt Zames… where have we heard that name before… OH YES: he just happens to be the Chairman of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, aka the TBAC, aka the Superommittee that Really Runs America. The Matt Zames who… “previously worked at hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management LP, may have benefited as...
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FT Alphaville » The “other reportables” oil mystery
From John Kemp at Reuters on Monday (our emphasis): Hedge funds and other money managers reduced their long position in U.S. crude by the equivalent of nearly 54 million barrels of oil, the largest one-week decline since at least June 2006, according to data released by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on...
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Wall of Worry: It’s Time to Make These Two Adjustments
The stock market is off to its best start since 1998, but now what?
The markets could continue drinking the good times Kool-Aid ...
Or April could be the last hurrah before a May hangover has us all reaching for the Alka-Seltzer again.
What do...
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The One Chart That Shows Where AAPL and the Market Are Heading
Is Apple going to $1,000 per share and dragging the market higher with it?
Sometimes one chart tells us more than a thicket of charts. Every analyst and punter seeks an "edge" by plotting and comparing innumerable indicators, ratios, correlat...
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Pushing Non-Official Holders of Local-Issued European Debt into Subordination
I spotted some interesting commentary on the maturing March 2012 Greek bonds. After buying at 40-45 cents, it seems the hedge funds are trying to unload in a bidless 35-cent market. The ECB has the largest stake, bought at 70 cents. This official holder’s dominance of this market, and refusal so far to participate in haircuts, is making the...
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Hedge Funds the Winners if Greek Bailout Arrives
January 10, 2012
Hedge Funds the Winners if Greek Bailout Arrives
By LANDON THOMAS Jr.
LONDON — Could Greece’s next rescue payout go straight into the pockets of London hedge funds?
That, more or less, is the bet that a growing number of inves...
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What if the SEC investigated Banks the way it is investigating Mutual Funds?
By William K. Black The Wall Street Journal ran a story today (12/27/11) entitled “SEC Ups Its Game to Identify Rogue Firms.” “Rogue” is an interesting word with a range of definitions. When it is used as an adjective its meaning is: “...
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Hedge Fund Abuses Hurt All Investors
Advisor Network|12/14/2011 @ 12:04PM
Hedge Fund Abuses Hurt All Investor
The reputation of the opaque and rarefied world of Wall Street hedge funds has been severely tarnished of late. .
Now we hear allegations that hedge fund managers have select,...
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Scott Brown used swing vote to water down WallSt bank regulations
Globe link
Excerpts:
WASHINGTON — Campaign contributions to Senator Scott Brown from the financial industry spiked sharply during a critical three-week period last summer as the fate of the Wall Street regulatory overhaul hung in the balance.....
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First Year Analyst to the 99%: "The Finance Industry is a Complete Scam!"
In an open letter posted on Reddit, a first year Wall Street analyst is doing his part to help Occupy Wall Street — by explaining how some of the things they're most upset about actually work.
"I'm writing this in hopes that the OWS movement ca...
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SPX Update: The Crash vs. Seasonality: Round One
The traditional wisdom is that light-volume holiday sessions, such as the sessions approaching on Wednesday and Friday, are bullish.
Since 1941, Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) has seen an average rise of 0.28%, and a positive close 70%...
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Lloyd says the economy will snap right back, and Volcker will be overturned
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-15/goldman-s-blankfein-growth-to-
snap-back-.html
And if that doesn't pan out, there's always a job waiting as head of Treasury, the Fed, or Greece.
Excerpt:
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), the fifth- biggest ...
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Paul Volcker says Volcker rule too complicated
Paul Volcker says Volcker rule too complicated
SINGAPORE | Wed Nov 9, 2011 7:52am EST
(Reuters) - The Volcker rule is too long and complicated and financial lobbyists are to blame, said the man who gave his name to the new regulation on bank trading....
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Europe – "The men without qualities"
Oct 29, 2011
The men without qualities
By Chan Akya
By far the biggest problem is the one involving the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF), where the promise had been to increase its size from 440 billion euros (US$606 billion) to over 1 tri...
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Monday Morning Outlook: Despite Technical Feats, Bulls Remain at the Mercy of Europe
Monday Morning Outlook: Despite Technical Feats, Bulls Remain at the Mercy of Europe
All eyes will be on the euro zone as EU leaders convene over the region's fiscal future
by Todd Salamone 10/22/2011 10:28 AM
U.S. stocks extended their upward momentu...
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Big 3 French Bank Assets Triple France’s GDP According To David Stockman
David Stockman, former Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget during the Reagan Administration, has in recent years become a prominent and outspoken critic of the Fed, central banking policies generally, government finance schemes, and other aspects of the world’s screwed up financial regimes. Mr. Stockman’s perspective on these issues is...
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