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Herds and rational behavior

…unchanged issues to total issues traded has fallen significantly since July, 2007, so it’s not just decimalization that has led to the shift. Program trading and the inclusion of more…

Nate Silver invades our turf

…frequently, so, I’m not sure this is a problem for him. That is, for all I know, at least one share of every Dow index company was traded every trading

Ratings, Stocks, and Credibility

…dividend. The stock is trading at $12/share as I type. That’s a yield of 10.31%, per MarketWatch. The 30-year Treasury, as I write (presumably the Friday close) is yielding 3.32%….

Real Keynesians understand imbalanced trade

…25 percent higher than it would have been with no adjustment. In his commentary in The Nation, Greider makes a similar point: To put it crudely, Obama’s stimulus program might…

Reads of the Day for the start of 2009

trading up for several more months. If a market “regulates” but no one notices, does it make the WSJ? Brad Setser finishes the destruction of Tyler Cowen’s LTCM “argument” begun…

Barter part 1

…a typical example? Philippine trading manager placing a barter/counter-purchase offer in an Estonian trade site. China and Russia have recently increased use of a barter system on some items for…

How did Lehman manage that ?

Robert Waldmann A commenter over at naked capitalism notes that $110b of senior LEH debt went from trading .95 to .12 in a matter of days …. If you include…

Saying It All

…willing to offer AIG terms that are about 180 bp wide of where Ford Motor Credit is trading. Come to think of it, let’s not ignore the mistakes, for after…