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The Rating Agency Endorsed BoomBustBlog Big Bank Bash Off Starts In 3…2…1…
Bloomberg reports: Morgan Stanley, UBS, Goldman May Be Cut by Moody’s Quote: UBS AG, Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN) and Morgan Stanley’s credit ratings may be cut by as many as three levels by Moody’s...
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The Goldman Grift Shows How Greece Got Got
Greece will burn economically because of financially engineered, grifted ways and it most definitely will not be the only country in the EZ to do so. I have made this unequivocally clear since...
View ArticleBank Stress Tests and Other Acts of Faith
First it needs to be said that the Fed deserves credit for conducting these stress tests, flawed as they may be. Would that the Fed had followed policies over the past 30 years that made this...
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Taking a Look at the EverBank IPO
News reports indicate that EverBank is bringing a rare IPO in the financial institution sector. Needless to say, the Sell Side is very excited about this private-equity sponsored deal, but let’s...
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Who Will Be The Next JPM?
So, in today’s news we have Greek bank runs (again), remnants of JP Morgan yield grab gone bananas, and European Banks Battered As Reality Sets In. I know there has to be at at least a small...
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FirstMerit + Citizens Republic: Call it Zombie Love (or Financial Repression)
In our last episode, we talked about the IPO of Capital Bank Financial (CBF), a small FL bank holding company which was once known as North American Financial Resources....
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Frontrunning: March 6
5 Things to Watch in February’s Jobs Report (WSJ) Draghi Declares Victory for Bond-Buying Before It Starts (BBG) Apple Pay Sign-Ups Get Tougher as Banks Respond to Fraud (WSJ) As World’s Hottest...
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Volatility Is The Square Root Of Time & Fat Tails
Authored by Russ Certo of Brean Capital via David Kotok of Cumberland Advisors, Russ Certo of Brean Capital has penned a superb research note (PDF here). Readers may note that this is a technical essay...
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