Alea points out that the February 5 H.4.1 Fed release shows that the Fed Balance sheet continues to shrink. “Central Bank Liquidity Swaps” on the asset side and “Deposits – Depository Institutions” on the liability …
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February 5, 2009
The Russian Central Bank has come up with a novel bank recapitalization technique: Russia’s central bank is exacerbating the ruble’s 34 percent plunge since August, even as it struggles to defend the exchange rate, by …
IIROC Report on Short Selling Ban
IIROC has released its Study on the Impact of the Prohibition on the Short Sale of Interlisted Financial Sector Issuers. This report, according to the press release: was undertaken at the request of the Canadian …
February 4, 2009
It seems that PrefBlog is persuading the world that Bad Bank = Bad Idea: The Obama administration, aiming to overhaul the $700 billion financial-rescue program, is refocusing on an effort to guarantee illiquid assets against …
MAPF Portfolio Composition: January 2009
Trading was relatively heavy in January, with portfolio turnover of about 120%, as the late-December rally continued for the first half of the month and then settled in for a more traditional grind. The market …
February 3, 2009
The Fed has announced that the alphabet soup of liquidity support will be with us for some time yet: The Board of Governors approved the extension through October 30 of the Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Money …
February 2, 2009
Spend-Every-Penny is urging Canadian investors to ignore banks’ capital ratios: “We have said that we’ll do what’s necessary to protect the Canadian banking system,” Mr. Flaherty reiterated on Saturday from Davos during a conference call …
Best & Worst Performers: January 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. January 2009 Issue Index DBRS Rating …
January 30, 2009
I’m very annoyed with DBRS. I had been hoping they would come to some resolution of their mass reviews of Split Corporations (two of them: October and December), but here we are at month-end and …
January 29, 2009
There’s a draft bill in Congress that will kill the CDS market: House of Representatives Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota circulated an updated draft bill yesterday that would ban credit-default swap trading unless …