ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
CBC News – British Columbia – New mortgage rules take effect Federal mortgage rules implemented two months ago aimed at turning down the heat on Canada's red-hot real estate market took effect on Monday. (tags: Canada housing mortgage) Atlanta’s affordable housing ranking low – Atlanta Business Chronicle: The four most expensive major markets for housing … Read more
PBS Newshour aired a segment on Tuesday’s show called “Mortgage Defaults” as part of its “Making Sense” financial series (click here for video, segment aired 25:45 to 35:00). I highly recommend that anyone interested in real estate watch this segment. Newshour picked three example Floridians who are dealing with defaults on their mortgages: A restaurant … Read more
What Put Call Ratios Are Telling Us | Minyanville.com We could have a similar pause to what we saw when Greece broke in January. (tags: options technical_analysis trading_strategy) Volcano casts cloud over European economy – CNN.com "While safety remains a non-negotiable priority, it is not incompatible with our legitimate request to reconsider the present restrictions," … Read more
I have a lot of respect for fund manager Doug Kass. His latest piece, “The Ramifications of the Goldman Sachs Case,” contextualizes the current push for financial reform, and it provides a succinct indictment of the practices that helped ignite the recent financial panic. However, I disagree with Kass’s casual link between the SEC’s charges … Read more
China Steps up Fight Against Property Speculation – ABC News Apparently, China (unlike the U.S. and many other countries) has a working definition of a bubble and is trying to be proactive in preventing its real estate market from overheating (and imploding) [my editorial] (tags: China mortgage real_estate bubbles)
The news has rippled across the globe that the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) finally got around to charging Goldman Sachs with fraud: “The SEC alleges that Goldman Sachs structured and marketed a synthetic collateralized debt obligation (CDO) that hinged on the performance of subprime residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). Goldman Sachs failed to disclose to … Read more
Greek bailout plan signals new world disorder – The Globe and Mail The world's borrowing woes are shifting from developing economies to their advanced counterparts, many of which are exiting the crisis shouldering heavy debt burdens. Tackling those burdens is a war that a host of governments will fight for years to come, with or … Read more
This morning, Research In Motion (RIMM) announced that it completed its repurchase program through a third-party transaction (emphasis mine): “Research In Motion Limited…announced today that it has agreed to purchase for cancellation 2.0 million of its outstanding common shares, representing approximately 0.36% of its common shares outstanding at April 5, 2010, pursuant to private agreements … Read more
The Future of American Jobs – Robert Reich …even if we enjoy a vigorous recovery that produces, say, 300,000 net new jobs a month, we could be looking at five to eight years before catching up to where we were before the recession began. (tags: unemployment economy recession)
I had forgotten all about bond insurer Ambac Financial Group (ABK) – one of the many hobbled poster children of the recent financial panic. I sure did not realize the company is still limping along and even trading on the NYSE. So, imagine my surprise when I learned that ABK doubled on Monday to add … Read more