A Financial Times article titled Flash Crash Threatens to Return with a Vengeance leads me to a paper by Dave Cliff and Linda Northrop titled The Global Financial Markets: an Ultra Large Scale Systems Perspective. …
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December 29, 2011
Italy sold some debt – possibly with some assistance: Italy auctioned 7 billion euros ($9 billion) of debt to bring the total raised this week to almost 20 billion euros, underscoring how the European Central …
December 28, 2011
Fairfax isn’t having much luck with its lawsuit: James Chanos’s Kynikos Associates LP and Daniel Loeb’s Third Point LLC won dismissal from an $8 billion lawsuit accusing the two hedge funds of spreading negative information …
December 23, 2011
John Paulson, the hedgie whose incisive analysis of the economy and uncanny ability to lay his finger on the pulse of the market made him and his clients billions during the subprime episode, has run …
December 22, 2011
The national securities regulation pipe-dream is over: The Supreme Court of Canada has stopped the federal government’s initiative for a single national securities regulator in its tracks. While the court suggested that the door remained …
December 21, 2011
The ECB is bailing out Europe: The European Central Bank will lend euro-area banks a record amount for three years in its latest attempt to keep credit flowing to the economy during the sovereign debt …
December 20, 2011
Nothing happened today, folks! It was a good day for the Canadian preferred share market, with PerpetualDiscounts winning 27bp, FixedResets gaining 13bp and DeemedRetractibles up 8bp. Volatility was high, with SLF issues getting whacked – …
December 19, 2011
The Bank of England has released the 11Q4 Quarterly Bulletin with articles: Markets and operations Understanding recent developments in UK external trade The financial position of British households: evidence from the 2011 NMG Consulting survey …
December 16, 2011
BMO will be exiting the annuity business: Ottawa is wading into a high-stakes battle between banks and life insurers, ordering the banks to stop selling products that resemble annuities. The decision is a win for …
December 15, 2011
Ontario is on Outlook-Negative by Moody’s: Ontario’s rating outlook was cut to negative from stable by Moody’s Investors Service on concern Canada’s most populous province faces a higher risk in meeting fiscal targets given a …