Our Government Motors investment has a long way to go: But for the U.S. to break even through sales of the rest of its stake, the share price may need to rise more than 60% …
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November 1, 2010
Fabulous Fab’s trial is progressing … slowly: U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones today dismissed Tourre’s motion seeking a judgment in the case. He had argued that the SEC can’t sue him over a Goldman …
Best & Worst Performers: October 2010
These are total returns, with dividends presumed to have been reinvested at the bid price on the ex-date. The list has been restricted to issues in the HIMIPref™ indices. October 2010 Issue Index DBRS Rating …
October 29, 2010
The EU is now openly discussing mechanisms for sovereign default: European Union leaders endorsed German calls for a rewrite of EU treaties to create a permanent debt-crisis mechanism, while sparring over whether to force bondholders …
October 28, 2010
Econbrowser‘s James Hamilton discusses Negative real interest rates: In terms of the Fed’s policy objectives at the moment, one of the problems with deflation is that it guarantees a positive real return just from stuffing …
October 27, 2010
Forbes has an unusual perspective on the flash-crash: In a talk at Columbia University’s sociology department, renowned social scientist Donald MacKenzie gave some words of warning and advice about the financial markets. MacKenzie, a professor …
October 26, 2010
UBS is is projecting another massive loss for MFC: Ongoing low interest rates are making things increasingly difficult for life insurance companies which rely heavily on fixed income investments such as government bonds to cover …
October 25, 2010
A lot of corporate debt is being called for redemption: Not since 2004 have borrowers had as much incentive to tender for their bonds, prompting companies from mining firm Rio Tinto Plc in London to …
October 22, 2010
The exodus of prop traders to hedge funds continues: KKR & Co., the buyout firm founded by Henry Kravis and George Roberts, is close to hiring nine members of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s U.S. principal-strategies …
October 21, 2010
OSFI’s Jean-Claude Ménard, Chief Actuary, has given a presentation titled Actuarial Valuation of the Canada Pension Plan – Modeling Uncertainty and Properly Disclosing the Results. They’re estimating a real rate of return of 4.2%, but …