LSE : You Were Warned !
Nearly 2 [two] months ago.
Project BOAT, ICAP and LSE
My take : another bad day for the “information is reflected instantly into prices” school of thinking.
Link : Exchange Wars
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Recent Entries - Volatility Remains Elevated…
- Russian Oligarchs Lose $230 Billion
- Lehman CDS Auction: Final Result
- Lehman CDS Auction: Initial Results
- 401-Keg
- Morgan Stanley CDS
- Don’t Panic
- OIS-Libor
- Repos Fails
- #Links
- Is a Credit Default Swap (”CDS”) a Contract of Insurance?
- Records Everywhere
- PIMCO/CPFF
- AIG: Additional $37.8 bn Cash
- This Is Not Iceland
- #Links
- Fed $ Swaps Outstanding
- Quote of the Day
- U.K. To Recap Banks
- TAF Undersubscribed
- Super-SIV: It’s Alive
- Return of the Currency Peg
- Fed’s New Plan: Unsecured Loans
- A Strange Lender of Last Resort
- Fannie/Freddie CDS Auctions: Final Prices
- Fannie/Freddie CDS Auctions: Initial Results
- Carry Trade Bloodbath: AUD/JPY
- Fed: We Are Doing This ‘Cause We Are Tapped Out
- Fed To Pay Interest on Required and Excess Reserves
- TAF: Up to $900 bn by Year-End
- OIS
- #Links
- Hypo Big Loser: J.C. Flowers
- Euro Bailout: It’s Back on the Table
- Early Dollar Trades
- That Was Quick…
- #Links
- Forms of Federal Reserve Lending to Financial Institutions
- #Links
- Libor: Quote of the Day
- Liquidity
- OIS-Libor
- Gazumped !
- From AIG Blog Relations Dept
- Some Good News
- Fed “Other Loans” Jump to Record: $400 bn
- Rate Cut
- CDS of the Day: Landsbanki Islands hf
- Dollar
- OIS-Libor
- Nobel Economics Prize Forecast
- #Links
- Warren Buffett Bailout of the Day: GE
- Bailout: Europe Edition
- Seventeen Principles and One Hundred Forty Seven Subprinciples for Sound Liquidity Risk Management and Supervision
- International Transmission of Liquidity Shocks and Liquidity Spirals
- Some Lessons from the Financial Market Correction
- Mark-to-Market Relaxed
- Soros on Paulson
- The Housing Meltdown: Why Did It Happen In The United States?
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