Goldman Sachs is making tons of money: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. made more than $100 million in trading revenue on a record 46 separate days during the second quarter, or 71 percent of the time, …
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August 4, 2009
The Bank for International Settlements has released a paper by Fabio Panetta, Thomas Faeh, Giuseppe Grande, Corrinne Ho, Michael King, Aviram Levy, Federico M Signoretti, Marco Taboga and Andrea Zaghini, An assessment of financial sector …
MAPF Portfolio Composition: July 2009
Trading activity eased slightly in July, with portfolio turnover of about 100%, while the market extended its gains. Trades were, as ever, triggered by a desire to exploit transient mispricing in the preferred share market …
Best & Worst Performers: July 2009
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. July 2009 Issue Index DBRS Rating …
July 31, 2009
The FDIC will now be separating good assets from bad when disposing of failed banks: “FDIC staff has referred to a ‘good bank/bad bank’ model described as the sale of the failing bank’s better assets …
July 30, 2009
The campaign to ensure that retail’s choice of investment be restricted (or, at least, attract a blizzard of paper) has gained some ground, with American brokerages restricting sales: Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo & Co. …
July 29, 2009
Good column by Jane Bryant Quinn on Bloomberg, Money Funds Are Ripe for ‘Radical Surgery. Quadravest has announced semi-annual results for most of its funds (DF, DFN, FTN, FFN …), but neither the announcements nor …
Covered Calls
I’ve been interested in this topic for a while (due to the prevalence of covered call writing strategies in SplitShare corporations) and now (with a hat tip to Financial Webring Forum) I’ve found a study …
July 28, 2009
A bit more on Flash Order controversy: But critics, notably Charles Schumer, a senior Democrat on the Senate banking panel, contend that flash orders are not being shown to all investors at the same time, …
July 27, 2009
The latest controversy is Flash Trading: Charles Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat in the U.S. Senate, asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to ban so-called flash orders for stocks, saying they give high-speed traders an unfair …