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by furiouslol 18y ago
I don't get it. What does that got to do with short selling? If they effect a blanket short sell ban, you're going to see quite a number of business going bust. The ETF business will be derailed. So will the options business. Companies shut
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by furiouslol 18y ago
I would argue that this was a political driven decision rather than an economical one.
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Ok. You'll not only be killing the hedge funds but you'll also be killing the ETF issuers who needs to short sell in order to keep the ETF price in line with the underlying basket of stocks (Some ETF issuers use OTC swaps but at the end of
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by furiouslol 18y ago
I'm totally serious. You can ask anyone who knows about the market and get their candid opinions. I don't know how long they're going to effect this ban but to give you a preview of what banning short sell can do, just take a look at the Ch
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Oh yes, if the hedge funds are forced to cover, this could conceivably lead to some blowups, putting even more pressure on the banks that finance them. Wonderful.
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by furiouslol 18y ago
This is the biggest WTF moment. Ever. Without the ability to short sell, the market can't even function effectively. Convertible/Risk arbitrage people cannot do their job wihout short selling. The risk-free spread is there for the taking, b
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Sounds like what Zopa is doing with peer to peer lending. As long as there is a central clearing organization that guarantees the payoff and assuming this p2p model results in better rates, I don't see why it wouldn't take off. The executio
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Why is it that laymen don't mind writing commands like @john message? I thought people would prefer it if Twitter just add a To: textfield.
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by furiouslol 18y ago
The taxpayers suffer. You have to eat the loss.
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by furiouslol 18y ago
If you want an explanation on why GS and MS are in free fall, look at the money markets. After the Reserve Fund broke the buck yesterday, money market funds are increasingly wary of lending to investment banks in the short term repo markets
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Aftermath of AIG: Goldman & Morgan Stanley in free fall(dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by furiouslol 18y ago|3 comments
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by furiouslol 18y ago
I would think that most of the bloggers got it all wrong. If Google have bought Valve, it would not be for the Android app store. The most obvious reason why Google would buy Valve is that Microsoft is moving aggressively into in-game adver
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by furiouslol 18y ago
I don't wish to make light of the situation but Paulson has moved the US Treasury from nowhere to the top of the M&A league table in just 1 year,
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by furiouslol 18y ago
AIG is getting badly punished for this. They are getting the loan at LIBOR + 8.5%. That's downright punitive. LIBOR + 8.5% is not a rate at which a company with AIG's business model could survive at. AIG lends to people at around LIBOR + 4%
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Here are more complete articles: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/business/17insure.html?_r=... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122156561931242905.html
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Fed takes over AIG(dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com)
84 points by furiouslol 18y ago|188 comments
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by furiouslol 18y ago
I wouuld say you would be more productive with private offices but the culture and the camaraderie within the office would probably be better with an open concept.
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Who Wants to Be a Facebook Millionaire?(businessweek.com)
1 points by furiouslol 18y ago|0 comments
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What MySpace Music means for Amazon(money.cnn.com)
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For VMware, an Uncertain Future(businessweek.com)
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Nouriel Roubini, aka Dr Doom: If Lehman collapses expect a run on all of the other broker dealers and the collapse of the shadow banking system Sep 13, 2008 It is now clear that we are again – as we were in mid- March at the time of the Bea
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by furiouslol 18y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Goldman/MorganS snap up the likes of Wachovia just to stay competitive.
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Ok. Deal is done. Acquisition sealed. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122142278543033525.html?mod=...
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by furiouslol 18y ago
It's confirmed. Lehman to File for Bankruptcy Protection http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/lehman-to-file-...
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Lehman going bankrupt. Bank of America buying Merrill Lynch(dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com)
110 points by furiouslol 18y ago|85 comments
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Sitemeter just launched their new version - https://www.sitemeter.com/viewstats.php?site=sm1giantbikes Definitely a lot "flash"-ier (descriptively & literally) than the previous version that was mainly text-based. I'm honestly surpris
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Best to keep things simple? Backlash from the community(search.twitter.com)
2 points by furiouslol 18y ago|1 comments
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by furiouslol 18y ago
I thought his biggest mistake was thinking that he can sell millions of these keychains with ease. Since the only people capable of buying those volumes are the big retail chains and not those small mom-n-pop stores, he should have gauged t
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by furiouslol 18y ago
For small pieces of data, we can already use cookies as a client-side storage.
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Finding Profits in a Distressed Market (nytimes.com)
2 points by furiouslol 18y ago|0 comments

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