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US CREDIT-Large defaults could test (the $62 Trillion) CDS market (Democratic Underground)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:22:25 GMT

Source: [b]Reuters[/b] NEW YORK, July 18 (Reuters) - The credit derivative market, which has ballooned to over $62 trillion to dwarf the underlying debt market, has yet to experience the default of a significant issuer since its rapid growth. Corporate defaults, however, are on the uptick a...

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Daily Record Turnover On The Derivatives Arm Of The BME - MEFF - 136.860 Contracts On The IBEX 35 Future (Mondo Visione)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:09:25 GMT

MEFF, the Spanish derivatives market (integrated in BME) reached today an all time daily turnover record with 136.860 contracts on the future on the IBEX 35.

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Risk Books (The Complete MoneyScience)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:04:01 GMT

London, GB Risk Books is an established world leader in specialist books on the financial risk management and derivatives markets. We are proud to be a niche publisher that has quality as its top priority. Our mission is to produce books that truly add value by delivering the very best information on our specialist subjects. And with more than 150 different titles currently in print,...

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Counterparty credit risk jumps again as banks pressured (Market Watch)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:02:00 GMT

Counterparty credit risk in the derivative market jumps again as concerns mount about the impact of the housing slump and credit crunch on big banks including Wachovia, Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase.

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Math Lesson: 569,000,000,000,000 (Climateer Investing)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:54:00 GMT

Via The Journal of Improbable Research : Derivatives Market Grows to $596 Trillion on Hedging The market for derivatives expanded at the fastest pace in at least a decade last year as the global credit crisis spurred trading in contracts used to hedge against losses, according to the Bank for International Settlements. Derivatives, including those based on debt, currencies,...

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DTCC Reduces Payment Risk in OTC Credit Derivatives Market (Business Wire)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:00:00 GMT

PermalinkTo save a permanent link to this news, right-click the date and time (Ctl-click on a Mac) and choose the command to copy the link, link location or shortcut.DTCC Reduces Payment Risk in OTC Credit Derivatives MarketCentral Settlement Service Achieves 95% Average Netting Factor for PaymentsNEW YORK & LONDON--()--The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today announced...

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Pricking the Oil Bubble (American Congress for Truth)

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:42:55 GMT

by Jerry Gordon, The Iconoclast, July 11, 2008 Last month we posted articles on the emergence of Congressional concerns about the speculation in energy futures and derivative markets, driven through several ‘loopholes’ and the lassitude of federal commodity trading regulators. Senator Lieberman, as we pointed out in those New English Review and The Iconoclast [...]

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McDermott Recruits ex-CFTC Director of Enforcement (The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:47:36 GMT

McDermott Will & Emery has announced that Gregory Mocek, the former director of enforcement for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), will join the firm's Washington office in September. Mocek will be a partner in the energy derivatives markets...

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CME Group CEO To Discuss Credit Derivatives At Senate Hearing (Mondo Visione)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:32:52 GMT

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, announced that CME Group Chief Executive Officer Craig Donohue will discuss with U.S. Senators today the credit derivatives markets and central-party clearing solutions.

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CFTC Enforcement Chief Departs (Law Blog - WSJ.com)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:04:00 GMT

CFTC enforcement chief Gregory Mocek is departing the agency, which is in the midst of a political battle over its oversight, to become a partner in the energy and derivatives markets practice of law firm McDermott Will & Emery.

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Deutsche Bank expands into Peru (Banking Times: Daily Banking News)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:00:05 GMT

Deutsche Bank has launched its first Peruvian subsidiary, Deutsche Bank (Peru) S.A. Jose Miguel Alcalde, chief country officer for Chile and Peru will manage the office, which is based in the capital city of Lima. Deutsche Bank is now permitted to enter the government bond derivatives markets, foreign exchange and can raise cash by selling deposit [...]

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BM&FBOVESPA Ends June With A 6.6% Increase In Its Derivatives Markets (Mondo Visione)

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:40:16 GMT

BM&FBOVESPA's derivatives market (including futures and options) registered a volume of 35.4 million contracts traded in June 2008, a 6.6% increase in comparison to the same period last year (33.3 million). The average daily trading volume also rose, with 1.69 million contacts, 1.5% higher than the 1.6 million registered in June 2007. Financial volume also increased: BRL2.4 trillion, a 6.6%...

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NYSE Euronext Business Summary For June And First-Half 2008 (Mondo Visione)

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:44:00 GMT

NYSE Euronext No.1 in Global IPOs by Capital Raised and Total ETF Listings y-t-d Busiest June Ever and Record Half-Year for European Cash and Derivatives Markets Cash Equities Volumes: +28.3% in Europe , + 16.1 % in the U.S. y-t-d Derivatives Volumes: +25.1% in Europe , +54.2% in the U.S. y-t-d

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Assessment Of OMX Derivatives Markets As A Central Counterparty, 2007 (Mondo Visione)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:33:56 GMT

OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm AB (OMX STO) is the central marketplace for trading in, among other things, equities, fixed income securities and derivatives instruments in Sweden. OMX Derivatives Markets (OMX DM) is the secondary legal name of OMX STO and is used for operations involving trading and clearing of derivatives instruments. 1 OMX DM is the central counterparty...

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ITV revives Carlton for bond, creates CDS havoc (Reuters UK)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:04:16 GMT

LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - Carlton came back to life as a debtor this week, after not existing as a listed company for years, to provide successor ITV Plc with relatively cheap funding, causing turmoil in the credit derivatives market.

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Bursa Malaysia: Trading On Equities Market Suspended For Morning Session (Mondo Visione)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:21:08 GMT

Trading on the Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad will be suspended for at least the morning trading session from 9:00am to 12:30pm following a multi hardware failure in our core trading system. The derivatives market will continue to trade as normal, however, there will not be any underlying KLCI feed for the FKLI and OKLI trading.

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ASX Monthly Activity Report - June 2008 - Including FY08 Data Snapshot (Mondo Visione)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:08:24 GMT

June 2008 activity levels in Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) cash markets increased on May 2008, although traded value was down on June 2007 despite overall traded volume increasing. Derivatives markets activity was lower compared to the previous corresponding period (pcp). Total FY08 activity levels in both cash and derivatives markets were up on FY07 with the exception...

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COMMENTS TO THE CFTC: What should be expected, next. (Midas Oracle .ORG)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:33:48 GMT

Two prediction market organizations will submit, each, a comment. I suppose that what they will tell the CFTC will say more about their industrial strategy than about the right state of the US regulations on event derivative markets, but I could be damn wrong. Tom W. Bell is working on a comment to the CFTC (that’s [...]

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Term Project Instruction (Thinking made Easy)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:14:18 GMT

Term Project instruction and requirement: 1. Identify a recent/current development in derivatives markets such as impact of financial risk management on the value of the firm. 2. Use journals such as: financial analyst journal, journal of investing, journal of portfolio management, journal of derivatives, derivatives quarterly, review of futures markets,...

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FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES: 415.2 TRILLION DOLLARS AT END OF 2006 (Cambridge Forecast Group Blog)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:04:39 GMT

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) publishes statistics on the notional amounts outstanding in the OTC Derivatives market. At the end of 2006, this was USD 415.2 trillion, more than 8.5 times the 2006 gross world product. However, since the cash flow generated by a swap [...]

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