Archive for September, 2008
Sunday, September 7th, 2008
The New York Times this morning has a lengthy piece by Roger Lowenstein, who authored the excellent work When Genius Failed,which chronicles the demise of Long Term Capital. I had forgotten that this is the 10th anniversary of the fall of Long Term and the Times article today recounts its collapse ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
It is time for bed here but just came across this article which will appear in the Sunday NYTimes. I guess a succinct summary is that regulators concluded that FNMA and Freddie Mac were financial sewers.
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
The new information in this story is that the folks from Morgan Stanley, who are advising the Treasury, had reached the conclusion that FNMA and Freddie Mac were able to meet their capital requirements because of some financial ledgerdemain. Captain Renault was shocked,too, when he found out that there was ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Treasury announcement regarding FNMA and Freddie Mac will come early Sunday afternoon. The government will take temporary control of the firms and will not necessarily make an immediate infusion of capital. As outlined in other stories the companies will be put in ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Representative Barney Frank confirms that the Treasury will take control of Fannie and Freddie. It is hard for me to believe that he does not know the particulars of the plan but that is what he is quoted as having said. The same story from CBS Marketwatch says that the ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/business/06fannie.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
http://nytimes.com/2008/09/06/business/06credit.html
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
The Wall Street Journal carries a report that Hank Paulson will take the bazooka from his pocket this weekend. The only substantive notes in the story is that each would be run in conservatorship by their regulator the Federal Housing Finance Agency. In addition, the current CEOs of each company would be ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Prices of treasury coupon securities posted modest declines today in spite of an employment report which defined and described a very anemic economy. After the release of the data the 2 year note traded to a yield of 2.10 percent. That yield levels and similarly low yields in 5 year ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
The corporate bond market remains comatose. The information which I post here on that market comes from two friends who have been hawking corporates for quite a few years. They consistently report that the secondary cash market is dormant, closed and shuttered.I talked today with a former client who runs ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Agency spreads are a little wider today. Spreads are 2 basis points wider in the 2 year sector and about ½ basis point wider in the 5 year and 10 year sector. The 2year sectors underperformance relates to the expected announcement of a $3billion 2 year note on Monday.
One trader ...
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