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UBS (UBS) had an awful quarter. The Swiss financial firm reported a fourth-quarter loss of 12.45 billion Swiss francs ($11.3 billion), compared with profit of 3.41 billion francs in the year-earlier...
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Eliot Spitzer, former prosecutor and now governor of New York State, will ape comments made by Deutsche Bank (DB) Chief Executive Josef Ackermann. If bond insurers fail its will create a "financial...
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A lot of smaller companies will continue to report earnings over the next several weeks, but almost all of the really big companies which are on calendar fiscals have put out their fourth quarter and...
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Wikipedia listing "No Exit", a 1944 play by Jean-Paul Sartre, (see also–Delphi’s Chapter 11 problem.) On the way to getting out of Chapter 11, auto parts company Delphi ran into the credit...
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Eric Dinallo, New York State’s insurance regulator, is a clever devil. He has effectively pitted Warren Buffett against the nation’s biggest money center banks to see who will get the chance to...
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According to Reuters, GM (GM) offered buy-outs to workers after posting a large Q4 loss. Reuters writes that Warren Buffett offered to insure $800 billion worth of bonds currently insured by monoline...
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The US Treasury is encouraging several large banks, lead by Citigroup (C) and Bank of America (BAC) to freeze foreclosures for 30 days while they sort out which homeowners should get restructured...
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Bank of America has release a study showing the levels of LBO write-downs that large banks and brokerages may have to take. The figures are based on a "the current series of the U.S. leveraged loan...
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After booking billions of dollars in losses because of actions by a rogue trader and write-offs in its CDO portfolio, Societe Generale went to the market with a rights offering for almost $8 billion....
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Cisco (NASD: CSCO) and EDS (NYSE: EDS) have businesses which point different directions on a compass. But, it is the same compass. In one day, Cisco was able to show that large capex tech spending...
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Short interest in financial stocks generally fell in NYSE figures for January 31. Numbers compare to January 15. Shares sold short in Countrywide (NYSE: CFC) fell 52.7 million to 114.2 million....
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Citigroup (NYSE: C) is trading off over 5% today. Wachovia (NYSE: WB) and JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) are down over 3%. Is it any wonder? S&P today said that its potential downgrade of Ambac (NYSE:...
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Ambac (ABK) and MBIA (MBI) figured they could improve their earnings by putting money into swaps and derivative instruments. For years they were not allowed to. They had to watch big banks and...
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As the selling of bank shares has fallen off, Wall St. has begun to believe that the worst of the global banking crisis is in the rear view mirror. Not likely. If investors are surprised that...
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The head of insurance regulation in NY State is busy as a bee trying to bail out Ambac (ABK) and MBIA (MBI). According to the FT "Eric Dinallo, the New York state insurance superintendent, is being...
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