European rules on shorting could harm hedge fund strategies and investors
Hedge Funds Review Magazine
Jiri Krol, director of policy and government affairs at the Alternative InvestmentManagement Association (Aima), had branded open disclosure “a remnant of a draconian response to the nervousness [of short selling in the financial crisis] that we never ...
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Hedge Funds Review Magazine
Managers pin hopes on emerging markets
Financial News
It gave 3% of its fund to consultancy Hewitt with the instruction to put a third into emerging markets equities and two thirds into emerging market bonds. McCoy believes the financial crisis has dramatically changed pension funds' perceptions. ...
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Slow going for global economic recovery
Interactive Investor
It has been my view that the markets have been too optimistic about the outlook for synchronised global growth. The effects of the financial crisis of 2008 have yet to be fully unwound. We are all "lab rats" in the "largest financial experiment in ...
See all stories on this topic »
Interactive Investor
Czechia: what is the real price the country pays for its image?
«Market Leader» - news and previews making you rich.
Conservative financial system. The global financial crisis didn't damage the country's banking system too much. The reason is weak economic ties with the majorfinancial powers (the local banks didn't invest in the US mortgage bonds). ...
See all stories on this topic »
«Market Leader» - news and previews making you rich.
Continued disturbances in the MENA region influences pace of global economic ...
Hedge Funds Review Magazine
The impact on financial markets is likely to be limited. While corporates in the region are 17% of the JP Morgan Corporate Emerging Markets Bond Index, many are in wealthier Middle Eastern countries which are likely to benefit from social projects and...
See all stories on this topic »
Hedge Funds Review Magazine
With Obama and Congress Poised to Gut Social Spending, Pentagon ...
By The Global Realm
With a government shut-down looming over a manufactured “deficit crisis,” the World Socialist Web Site reports that the “Obama administration and congressional Democrats have offered to triple the amount of cuts in social spending for the ... Within a few weeks “this practice became pervasive, with virtually every banker pledging defaulted bonds in exchange for money good cash with which to pretend these banks were doing just fine (not to mention that $71.7 billion in ...
The Global Realm - http://theglobalrealm.com/
XE.com - RPT-GLOBAL MARKETS WEEKAHEAD-Learning to live with higher ...
LONDON, April 1 (Reuters) - The new quarter is bringing with it a new danger for investors -- the withdrawal of the easy money that saw them through the financial crisis. The European CentralBank is widely expected to raise interest rates on Thursday, ... Reuters asset allocation polls for the month found that global investors actually cut overall bond allocations as well as generally walking away from government, investment grade and high-yield fixed income. ...
XE Forex News - http://www.xe.com/news/
Ireland forced into new £21bn bailout by financial elites ...
Europe's debt crisis deepened on Thursday night as Ireland was forced into another €24bn (£21bn) rescue of its banking system and jittery financial markets pushed Portugal closer to a bailout. In a furious attack on the previous government, ... Lisbon said the change in its deficit figures was the result of an accounting change demanded by Europe's statistics agency but bond markets feared it was an effort to deceive investors about the true picture in the past. ...
Signs of the Times - http://www.sott.net/articles/show/224661-US-Cyberstalking-Isn-t-Free-Speech
Confessions of an Investor
By Niels Jensen
So did the Asian currency crisis which resulted in massive losses in October 1997, which statistically should only have happened once every 3 billion years or so. By comparison, our planet is 'only' about 2 billion years old. ... Truth be told, none of the three stand up to closer scrutiny. The concept of risk-free investing no longer exists, post 2008. Banks are giant hedge funds which cannot be trusted and even government bonds look dicey in today's world. ...
Credit Writedowns - http://www.creditwritedowns.com/
Euro Area Update – The Crisis Sine Wave
By Pater Tenebrarum
I said last week that Article 122 of the Lisbon Treaty, used as the basis for the ECB, EU and IMF 'invasion' of Ireland last November, did not cover EU intervention on economic crisis grounds. Article 122 was misused. .... As an aside, this also a major reason why one should be extremely wary of China's boom , which relies heavily on massive and evidently misguided property investment due to a vast mispricing of capital courtesy of the central bank and the government. ...
Acting Man - http://www.acting-man.com/
Belarus crisis set to strengthen Russia's hand | The Associated ...
By The Associated Press
News ... "It is unlikely that Russia will give money to Belarus without asking for some guarantees linked to Belarusian state property," said Anton Struchenevsky, an economist at the Moscow-basedinvestment bank Troika Dialog. ... The IMF provided a $3.5 billion credit in 2009 to help Belarus during the global financial crisis, but no further aid is expected. The IMF stressed in a March report that it would first want to see "a credible commitment to strong ...
Examiner News RSS - http://washingtonexaminer.com/feeds/18/rss.xml/wp-login.php
Stocks Stealth Bull Market Trend Forecast 2011 :: The Market ...
The consensus view as continuously pumped out in the mainstream financial press and further regurgitated at length in the blogosfear is that rising interest rates will negatively impact upon stockprice trends due to higher yielding bonds .... hedging result in a surge in the crude oil price to $148, which had the effect of dragging inflation higher, only to crash as a consequence of the financial crisis which continued into the deflation of late 2008 and early 2009. ...
The Market Oracle - http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Spanish Prime Minister ...
By noreply@blogger.com (Michael Shedlock)
Spain is the latest in a list of euro-area countries facing political upheaval after voters in Ireland ejected the Fianna Fail government from office in the wake of a bank crisis that left it in need of an 85 billion-euro ($121 billion) bailout. .... All site content, including advertisements, shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security or financial instrument, or to participate in any particular trading or investment strategy. ...
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis - http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/
BETWEEN THE HEDGES: Monday Watch
By Gary
US officials are split on how many financial institutions should be branded systemically important, say people familiar with inter-agency talks, amid desperate lobbying by non-bank financial groups to avoid the designation. ... Asia Will Endure Bursting Economic Bubble, Say Hedgies. The West can't keep blowing up bubbles that lift the global markets, opines a panel of risk-seeking investors at a roundtable. The global post-crisis recovery is being buoyed by a ...
BETWEEN THE HEDGES - http://hedgefundmgr.blogspot.com/
P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Compound Interest, exponential ...
By Michel Bauwens
One result is that despite the fact that most Asian and European voters oppose the U.S. invasion of Iraq and related global military buildup, the international financial system has been set up in a way that obliges foreign governments to ... a future international debt crisis inevitable once again. After governments, the leading borrowers are real estate investors. They have followed the same strategy as Third World governments, and bankers have been equally facilitating. ...
P2P Foundation - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/
Why Aren't We More Worried About Europe?
Ireland agreed yesterday to inject as much as 24 billion euros into four banks, while leaving bondholders untouched. The government already funneled 46.3 billion euros into the financialsystem and set up an agency that paid more than 30 ... One obvious target for conservatives is the government's strategy for dealing with the euro-zone debt crisis. Many Christian Democrats have been disappointed that the chancellor's harsh rhetoric about runaway government spending in ...
Contrary Investors Cafe - http://www.contraryinvestorscafe.com/
How to fix the mortgage mess | www.bullfax.com
By marketmaker
I think of them as being sort of centrists on some of the critical economic issues. They don't support the Fed, they most certainly are not supporters of the big banks. They are no fan of “kick the can down the road” plans. ... This was no mere Financial crisis or deflationary collapse… this was THE game changer , the event that altered the entire investing landscape so that virtually every and all relationships between various investment classes was thrown out the window. ...
Bullfax.com - Market News & Analysis - http://www.bullfax.com/
Russia: Deutsche Bank sticks with it | beyondbrics | News and ...
By beyondbrics
It added an investment banking and a brokerage business with a two-stage acquisition deal starting in 2006 of United Financial Group, which was set up by American entrepreneur Charlie Ryan and his late partner, the former Russian ... But Russia's state-owned banks have come through the global crisis in rude health thanks to their state backing and are ploughing money into investmentbanking. Sberbank bought Troika in March, while Renaissance Capital's owners in 2008 sold ...
beyondbrics - http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/
email: info@als-alexander.org, or interalex2@gmail.com
Hedge Funds Review Magazine
Jiri Krol, director of policy and government affairs at the Alternative InvestmentManagement Association (Aima), had branded open disclosure “a remnant of a draconian response to the nervousness [of short selling in the financial crisis] that we never ...
See all stories on this topic »
Hedge Funds Review Magazine
Managers pin hopes on emerging markets
Financial News
It gave 3% of its fund to consultancy Hewitt with the instruction to put a third into emerging markets equities and two thirds into emerging market bonds. McCoy believes the financial crisis has dramatically changed pension funds' perceptions. ...
See all stories on this topic »
Slow going for global economic recovery
Interactive Investor
It has been my view that the markets have been too optimistic about the outlook for synchronised global growth. The effects of the financial crisis of 2008 have yet to be fully unwound. We are all "lab rats" in the "largest financial experiment in ...
See all stories on this topic »
Interactive Investor
Czechia: what is the real price the country pays for its image?
«Market Leader» - news and previews making you rich.
Conservative financial system. The global financial crisis didn't damage the country's banking system too much. The reason is weak economic ties with the majorfinancial powers (the local banks didn't invest in the US mortgage bonds). ...
See all stories on this topic »
«Market Leader» - news and previews making you rich.
Continued disturbances in the MENA region influences pace of global economic ...
Hedge Funds Review Magazine
The impact on financial markets is likely to be limited. While corporates in the region are 17% of the JP Morgan Corporate Emerging Markets Bond Index, many are in wealthier Middle Eastern countries which are likely to benefit from social projects and...
See all stories on this topic »
Hedge Funds Review Magazine
With Obama and Congress Poised to Gut Social Spending, Pentagon ...
By The Global Realm
With a government shut-down looming over a manufactured “deficit crisis,” the World Socialist Web Site reports that the “Obama administration and congressional Democrats have offered to triple the amount of cuts in social spending for the ... Within a few weeks “this practice became pervasive, with virtually every banker pledging defaulted bonds in exchange for money good cash with which to pretend these banks were doing just fine (not to mention that $71.7 billion in ...
The Global Realm - http://theglobalrealm.com/
XE.com - RPT-GLOBAL MARKETS WEEKAHEAD-Learning to live with higher ...
LONDON, April 1 (Reuters) - The new quarter is bringing with it a new danger for investors -- the withdrawal of the easy money that saw them through the financial crisis. The European CentralBank is widely expected to raise interest rates on Thursday, ... Reuters asset allocation polls for the month found that global investors actually cut overall bond allocations as well as generally walking away from government, investment grade and high-yield fixed income. ...
XE Forex News - http://www.xe.com/news/
Ireland forced into new £21bn bailout by financial elites ...
Europe's debt crisis deepened on Thursday night as Ireland was forced into another €24bn (£21bn) rescue of its banking system and jittery financial markets pushed Portugal closer to a bailout. In a furious attack on the previous government, ... Lisbon said the change in its deficit figures was the result of an accounting change demanded by Europe's statistics agency but bond markets feared it was an effort to deceive investors about the true picture in the past. ...
Signs of the Times - http://www.sott.net/articles/show/224661-US-Cyberstalking-Isn-t-Free-Speech
Confessions of an Investor
By Niels Jensen
So did the Asian currency crisis which resulted in massive losses in October 1997, which statistically should only have happened once every 3 billion years or so. By comparison, our planet is 'only' about 2 billion years old. ... Truth be told, none of the three stand up to closer scrutiny. The concept of risk-free investing no longer exists, post 2008. Banks are giant hedge funds which cannot be trusted and even government bonds look dicey in today's world. ...
Credit Writedowns - http://www.creditwritedowns.com/
Euro Area Update – The Crisis Sine Wave
By Pater Tenebrarum
I said last week that Article 122 of the Lisbon Treaty, used as the basis for the ECB, EU and IMF 'invasion' of Ireland last November, did not cover EU intervention on economic crisis grounds. Article 122 was misused. .... As an aside, this also a major reason why one should be extremely wary of China's boom , which relies heavily on massive and evidently misguided property investment due to a vast mispricing of capital courtesy of the central bank and the government. ...
Acting Man - http://www.acting-man.com/
Belarus crisis set to strengthen Russia's hand | The Associated ...
By The Associated Press
News ... "It is unlikely that Russia will give money to Belarus without asking for some guarantees linked to Belarusian state property," said Anton Struchenevsky, an economist at the Moscow-basedinvestment bank Troika Dialog. ... The IMF provided a $3.5 billion credit in 2009 to help Belarus during the global financial crisis, but no further aid is expected. The IMF stressed in a March report that it would first want to see "a credible commitment to strong ...
Examiner News RSS - http://washingtonexaminer.com/feeds/18/rss.xml/wp-login.php
Stocks Stealth Bull Market Trend Forecast 2011 :: The Market ...
The consensus view as continuously pumped out in the mainstream financial press and further regurgitated at length in the blogosfear is that rising interest rates will negatively impact upon stockprice trends due to higher yielding bonds .... hedging result in a surge in the crude oil price to $148, which had the effect of dragging inflation higher, only to crash as a consequence of the financial crisis which continued into the deflation of late 2008 and early 2009. ...
The Market Oracle - http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Spanish Prime Minister ...
By noreply@blogger.com (Michael Shedlock)
Spain is the latest in a list of euro-area countries facing political upheaval after voters in Ireland ejected the Fianna Fail government from office in the wake of a bank crisis that left it in need of an 85 billion-euro ($121 billion) bailout. .... All site content, including advertisements, shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security or financial instrument, or to participate in any particular trading or investment strategy. ...
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis - http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/
BETWEEN THE HEDGES: Monday Watch
By Gary
US officials are split on how many financial institutions should be branded systemically important, say people familiar with inter-agency talks, amid desperate lobbying by non-bank financial groups to avoid the designation. ... Asia Will Endure Bursting Economic Bubble, Say Hedgies. The West can't keep blowing up bubbles that lift the global markets, opines a panel of risk-seeking investors at a roundtable. The global post-crisis recovery is being buoyed by a ...
BETWEEN THE HEDGES - http://hedgefundmgr.blogspot.com/
P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Compound Interest, exponential ...
By Michel Bauwens
One result is that despite the fact that most Asian and European voters oppose the U.S. invasion of Iraq and related global military buildup, the international financial system has been set up in a way that obliges foreign governments to ... a future international debt crisis inevitable once again. After governments, the leading borrowers are real estate investors. They have followed the same strategy as Third World governments, and bankers have been equally facilitating. ...
P2P Foundation - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/
Why Aren't We More Worried About Europe?
Ireland agreed yesterday to inject as much as 24 billion euros into four banks, while leaving bondholders untouched. The government already funneled 46.3 billion euros into the financialsystem and set up an agency that paid more than 30 ... One obvious target for conservatives is the government's strategy for dealing with the euro-zone debt crisis. Many Christian Democrats have been disappointed that the chancellor's harsh rhetoric about runaway government spending in ...
Contrary Investors Cafe - http://www.contraryinvestorscafe.com/
How to fix the mortgage mess | www.bullfax.com
By marketmaker
I think of them as being sort of centrists on some of the critical economic issues. They don't support the Fed, they most certainly are not supporters of the big banks. They are no fan of “kick the can down the road” plans. ... This was no mere Financial crisis or deflationary collapse… this was THE game changer , the event that altered the entire investing landscape so that virtually every and all relationships between various investment classes was thrown out the window. ...
Bullfax.com - Market News & Analysis - http://www.bullfax.com/
Russia: Deutsche Bank sticks with it | beyondbrics | News and ...
By beyondbrics
It added an investment banking and a brokerage business with a two-stage acquisition deal starting in 2006 of United Financial Group, which was set up by American entrepreneur Charlie Ryan and his late partner, the former Russian ... But Russia's state-owned banks have come through the global crisis in rude health thanks to their state backing and are ploughing money into investmentbanking. Sberbank bought Troika in March, while Renaissance Capital's owners in 2008 sold ...
beyondbrics - http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/
email: info@als-alexander.org, or interalex2@gmail.com
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