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Eliot L. Spitzer, is back

…disclosure various trading products should provide. Three overarching priorities should guide government actions in the new structure. First, we need better control of systemic risk. Second, investors must be protected…

WaPo on AIG

…will only have an unpleasant surprise similar to 2000. However, if everyone thinks they are beating the market, because of their clever derivatives trading strategies, the moment of truth for…

Not Since Mother Courage and Her Children…*

…them from defaults. Making matters worse, according to Mr. Pickard, who helped write the original rule in 1975 as director of the SEC’s trading and markets division, is a move…

We have part of an answer

…New York-based adviser to financial-services companies. “If they’d bet against the stock, they’d also be likely to minimize their exposure to their prime brokerage and trading over-the-counter derivatives with them.”…

Roubini’s not wrong, but…

…or near-junk credit in August of 2007 (5-yr notes at 245 over), when the stock was still trading at levels well north of 100.** LEH debt at the time was…

Report on oil speculation

…be out probably by tomorrow from Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Of course, there has to be an ulterior motive: Critics said Mr. Masters is trying to buoy his own investing…

2 Banks Will Buy Back $17 Billion in Securities

…by several groups of regulators. But unlike Citigroup, UBS faces additional accusations that at least one of its executives engaged in insider trading. Citigroup shares were down about 3.5 percent…

Trade policies and the campaign

…However, such these labels do not accurately describe either candidate. And it does not fully portray the candidate, Mr Obama, who has the more optimistic vision of trade. The conventional…