Equities

What’s Happening at Citigroup?

What’s Happening at Citigroup? »

Of all the banks embroiled in the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Citigroup has to be the one that's taken the brunt of the bad-mouthing. Even as investors have bid up shares in beleaguered rivals such...

June 9 2009 / No comment / Read More »
One Neat Pair Trade In This Messy Oil Market

One Neat Pair Trade In This Messy Oil Market »

Playing this U.S. oil giant off against its Chinese rival may prove lucrative...

May 14 2009 / No comment / Read More »

Quick View

As Treasury Mulls TARP Payback, Congressional Panel Asks For More Stress Tests »

As Treasury Mulls TARP Payback, Congressional Panel Asks For More Stress Tests

As the Treasury Department prepares to allow 10 banks to pay back Troubled Asset Relief Program funds as early as later today, some are...

Jun 9 2009 / No comment / Read More »

Britain Faces Sterling Currency Crisis »

Britain Faces Sterling Currency Crisis

A leadership crisis, potential ratings downgrade and dire economic conditions in the U.K. may lead to a currency crisis in the British pound....

Jun 8 2009 / No comment / Read More »

High Finance Eyes IPOs For Exit Strategy »

High Finance Eyes IPOs For Exit Strategy

Public listings, corporate restructurings and subsidiary spin-offs are the bread and butter of the investment banking industry. In the aftermath of the credit crisis,...

May 14 2009 / No comment / Read More »

April Retail Sales Data Better Than It Looks »

April Retail Sales Data Better Than It Looks

While retail sales fell more than expected during April, sales picked up where they matter most: construction and auto sales....

May 13 2009 / No comment / Read More »

Markets

BoA & China Construction: Share Sale Yet Another Feather In Asia Banking Cap »

BoA & China Construction: Share Sale Yet Another Feather In Asia Banking Cap

The recent share sale of China Construction Bank by Bank of America may look good for now. But BoA has just traded in a large chunk of much-needed growth....

May 12 2009 / No comment / Read More »

How Stress Tests Are Stabilizing Banking Sector »

How Stress Tests Are Stabilizing Banking Sector

Against all the odds, it looks like the original plan for government stress tests is actually working out. After causing somewhat of a fracas in the banking sector in April, many firms are reporting that they will be OK....

May 6 2009 / No comment / Read More »

Hedge Fund Start-ups: A Whole New Generation of “Gekkos” »

Hedge Fund Start-ups: A Whole New Generation of “Gekkos”

Recessions, it is said, are great times to start new businesses. It seems that’s as true for hedge funds as it is for widget manufacturers or high-tech start-ups....

May 3 2009 / No comment / Read More »

Is This A “Junk” Rally? »

Is This A “Junk” Rally?

Trash is king," claimed a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, which ran underneath the headline "Can a Rally Last on Diet of Junk?" If that's the case, then the garbage men were out on the street Wednesday...

Apr 29 2009 / No comment / Read More »

ANTI-TRUST

Apple vs. & Google »

Apple <strike>vs.</strike> & GoogleA decade ago, Apple and Google had big plans to usurp Microsoft from its pole position. The trouble is, they succeeded. Now anti-trust regulators want...

May 5 2009 / No comment / Read More »
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ETFs

Taiwan’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Rumored To Sell ETF

Taiwan’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Rumored To Sell ETF

On dealing desks in Asia Friday it was rumored that Taiwan National Fund, Taiwan's $6 billion sovereign wealth fund, was selling two U.S. publically-listed funds, according to a trading note originating in Hong...

Apr 17, 2009 / More »

IPO

Skype-led IPO Market May Help Big Banking Bounce Back

Skype-led IPO Market May Help Big Banking Bounce Back

While the IPO market has been a lackluster event in the past year, the number of new issues is on the up. A big deal such as Skype could cement the ground for...

Apr 16, 2009 / More »

Gold

Why Gold is Headed For $400

Why Gold is Headed For $400

If you've been tempted recently to cash in your gold jewelry for a small commission, do it now. Gold is about to get a lot cheaper....

May 3, 2009 / More »

German Equities

Germany’s Toxic Banking Problems Worsen

Germany’s Toxic Banking Problems Worsen

For a country famous for its efficiency, Germany's banking industry is in a tangle. But stuck as it is between European and American banking models, German banks' problems aren't likely to go away...

Apr 28, 2009 / More »

USA

Hedge Fund Start-ups: A Whole New Generation of “Gekkos”

Hedge Fund Start-ups: A Whole New Generation of “Gekkos”

Recessions, it is said, are great times to start new businesses. It seems that’s as true for hedge funds as it is for widget manufacturers or high-tech start-ups....

May 3, 2009 / More »

Weekly View

Time To Bring Back Investment Banking

Time To Bring Back Investment Banking

Just because it was the investment banks that got the financial system into trouble by designing toxic derivatives, that doesn't mean they are not the models needed to fix it best. ...

Apr 29, 2009 / More »

Behind The Banks

Morgan Stanley’s “Subsidiary Strategy”

Morgan Stanley’s “Subsidiary Strategy”

Most banks appear to be using accounting tricks so that they can get rid of the TARP funds faster - that much is clear. But by entering into offshore deals in Tokyo, and...

Apr 26, 2009 / More »

The Short Side

Analyst: conditions still to deteriorate through 2009

Analyst: conditions still to deteriorate through 2009

Just when bullish momentum is getting behind equities again, some are doubting publically that the about-turn in the economy will be as swift as everyone hopes...

Apr 7, 2009 / More »
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