The Wall Street Journal has published a comprehensive list of banks, companies, non-profit organizations and individuals that are facing losses in a scheme that's rocking the financial world." The fallout from Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme reverberated around the...
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"The stock market crash of 1987 seemingly taught America how to protect its markets. We have forgotten. Laws were enacted to protect America from a recurrence of such an event, but the laws that protect us the...
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""The Winter of 2008-2009 will prove to be the winter of global economic discontent that marks the rejection of the flawed ideology that unregulated global financial markets promote financial innovation, market efficiency, unhampered growth and endless prosperity while...
"Wall Street falls sharply as investors, worrying about recess, ponder Obama impact on economy NEW YORK (AP) -- A case of postelection nerves sent Wall Street plunging Wednesday as investors, looking past Barack Obama's presidential victory, returned to their fears of a deep...
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" It's ironic how high oil prices contributed to the global slowdown and to the credit crunch. In commodities, greed and now fear have added their contribution to the massive deleveraging in the markets and destroyed value. Let's see how the Middle East performs now that...
TPG-Axon Hedge fund, run by ex-Goldman trader shut down; who is next, Cerberus / Chrysler ? " TPG-Axon, a hedge fund run by a former Goldman Sachs trader, spared no words when writing its investors about...
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" delivery records,” there were “only two failures to deliver.” So Deutsche Bank systematically failed to even locate the stock that it sold, but the NYSE isn’t calling it “naked short selling,” and...
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Oct-2008 Londons FatCats, the Bankers receive $ 5 bn bonuses destruction commission " City fat cats will receive 'megabucks' bonuses totalling more than £3.5billion this year despite the financial crisis,...
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"StrategeryCapital Management LLC The people's hedge fund About Strategery Strategery is a unique hedge fund. It is the largest in the world, with expected initial capital of $700 billion. It has a free and unlimited credit line should it need more. It has no fixed mandate,...
" Perhaps the hedge fund managers should take their cue from the central banks which are not going to be selling gold over the next 12 months as they have been over the past four previous years. Supply is coming out of the market at a time of rising demand for a hedge...
These Institutions, hedge funds and anal-ysts, that helped contribute to the looting of the world by naked short selling should be tried for treason.* * * *I heard a researcher say that nobody who has ever taken...
opinion by RoryKearney | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 342 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Despite the bailout plan approved by US Congress, Indian stock market tanked due the negetive sentiments in other world markets.Since morning Asia and Europe markest have been slipping. " The...
created by Sanjay Jha | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 225 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
" It might look amusing to think of the hedge funds who had been shorting the bank stocks suddenly getting shafted. But whose money were they playing with? Yes, it came from their subscribers but who else? Well, the banks of course - and given the massively geared nature of...
" Some industry watchers have suggested that Al Safi’s funding and the launch of DSAM is a historic milestone in Islamic Finance. And it seems ironic that Islamic hedge funds should debut at such a bad time for the hedge fund industry as a whole but if they can make this...
Was it a good idea to limit short selling, speculating on falling stocks ?London is not sure, first HEDGE FUNDS go to other places in Europe and Dubai. " Britain's temporary ban on short-selling financial...
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