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  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    OTC dérivatives wrong number!!!!

    www.isda.org/

    Regular OTC Derivatives Market Statistics
    19 May 2009

    The BIS is releasing today its semiannual statistics on positions in the global OTC derivatives market for end-December 2008. The statistics cover the notional amounts and gross market values outstanding of the worldwide consolidated OTC derivatives exposure of major banks and dealers in the G10 countries.

    The total notional amount of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives contracts outstanding was $592.0 trillion at the end of December 2008, 13.4% lower than six months earlier. The decline is the first since collection of the data began in 1998. Credit market turmoil and the multilateral netting of contracts led to a contraction of 26.9% in outstanding credit default swaps (CDS). The second half of 2008 also saw the first significant decline of OTC derivatives contracts outstanding in the interest rate market (8.6%) and in the foreign exchange market (21%).

    Despite the drop in amounts outstanding, movements of financial market prices in the second half of 2008 lifted gross market values 66.5%, to $33.9 trillion. Gross market values measure the cost of replacing all existing contracts and are thus a better measure of market risk than notional amounts outstanding.

    The statistical release cites the following trends in the second half of 2008:

    * CDS volumes continued to contract
    * Commodity derivatives markets declined by two thirds
    * The market value of interest rate products almost doubled

    Comprehensive explanatory notes in the release define the coverage of the statistics and the terms used in presenting them.
    Oct 08 12:56 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Mark-to-market changes
    is the worse manipulation banksters have been done with administration help.
    toxics assets value are close to zero, now they are able to increase and sell these ones to Fed payable with taxmoney payers.
    well done !!!!! but not for long time.
    Apr 03 10:21 am |Rating: +1 -2 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    G-20
    sarkosy is like king or emperor ( napoleon), small guy, nervous and completly inefficiant to understand and resolve financial crisis.
    promise many things, do nothing!!!
    Apr 01 10:08 am |Rating: +2 -5 |Link to Comment
  • 1100 Tonnes Now in the GLD Trust [View article]
    no audit, please read ;

    www.marketskeptics.com...

    parts 5


    On Mar 21 10:44 AM econ_base wrote:

    > Is this 1100tonnes figure audited to be physically sitting in the
    > GLD vaults? How frequently is the audit and who is the auditor?
    Mar 21 13:47 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • 1100 Tonnes Now in the GLD Trust [View article]
    skipper
    read this data about GLD:

    www.marketskeptics.com...
    Mar 20 17:00 pm |Rating: +4 0 |Link to Comment
  • 1100 Tonnes Now in the GLD Trust [View article]
    Skipper
    you buy paper not from someone else, only to ETF's and in this way you help them to short the gold.
    best way is solid gold, small coins and is this case gold comme from someone else.
    forget paper, all ETF's print more paper that they have real gold is their vaults.
    Mar 20 12:54 pm |Rating: +2 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    National Debt $11,042,553,971,450.47 treas.gov
    New all-time high

    banksters, are you happy?

    www.treasurydirect.gov...
    Mar 19 16:39 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • What the Fed's Announcement Means for Gold  [View article]
    yes, gold increase in $ and become stable in €, that means gold follow € not anymore $
    Mar 19 08:56 am |Rating: +1 -3 |Link to Comment
  • What's Another $1.15 Trillion? [View article]
    that is like money game inside a family, not really productive.
    Mar 19 08:52 am |Rating: +1 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    problem is; "Rambo" Fed , there are IV or V versions, they forecast the same ?
    Mar 19 08:41 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Geithner said "if we don't get the world moving with us,then we face some prospect of a deeper, longer lasting recession in the United States..
    this desaster come from US not the people but your financial sytem.
    sorry to taxpayers, US will pay for that, not all countries around the world.
    increase stimulus will be done by Geithner no one else!!!
    Mar 12 13:05 pm |Rating: +3 0 |Link to Comment
  • Gold: An Investment Market Update [View article]
    in a stock exchange, never say, never again.
    we are close to bank collapse du to insolvability.



    On Mar 05 02:36 PM Paul&Shark Yachting wrote:

    > 1030$ never again
    Mar 06 12:06 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • The Citigroup / Gold Ratio [View article]
    why compared C to Gold, crazy!!!
    DJ and Gold ratio Yes, nothing else, when you see DJ 5000 Gold 2500 is time to sell, or little bet early.
    Feb 23 11:44 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • A Simple Post on Gold [View article]
    yes, Maxe

    Everyone i read about on here assumes gold is a "sure thing, one way bet", this alone is enough for me to start thinking of selling gold. It looks as though gold will be the "last bubble".

    but not before 2011

    because too many TARP kill the treasury bonds
    Jan 30 09:10 am |Rating: +1 -2 |Link to Comment
  • Why Gold Will Decline More than the Markets [View article]
    Asset prices in US$ and other currencies too have fallen in half.
    no, look the oil, gold and all commodities, none of those follow the $ now, why?
    do you have an idea?
    from my side, I think the world like to leave $ as commodities currency
    Nov 18 13:05 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
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