Welcome to Credit Lime. In my spare time I also contribute to a financial reporting site called www.CreditLime.com which provides in-depth analysis and reporting on news and events in the financial, derivative and credit default swap marketplace. I have over a decade of experience in the financial markets and have traded a variety of equity and fixed income products including but not limited to stocks, bonds and derivatives like credit default swaps (CDS). For the sake of brevity as far as disclosures go, all readers can assume that I hold positions in all the companies I mention or talk about. You can visit and read some of my other postings or reports at: CreditLime (http://www.CreditLime.com/) Credit Lime http://seekingalpha.com/user/580274/instablog http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/580274-credit-lime/118935-analysis-what-happened-to-pershing-square-s-bp-swaps?source=feed 118935 Pershing Square's latest third quarter investment letter covered a number of past, present and future investments - with one notable exception: BP CDS.

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]]> Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:07:26 -0500 Pershing Square's latest third quarter investment letter covered a number of past, present and future investments - with one notable exception: BP CDS.

What happened?











]]> bp ec tlm fur ceo Apache Bill Ackman BP Bridas British Petroleum CDS CNOOC Credit Default Swaps CSO Ecopetrol PAE Pan American Energy Pershing Square Peter Cooper Village PSW Puma Energy Stuyvesant Town Talisman Energy TNK-BP Trafigura Beheer BV Tubular Bells William Ackma http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/580274-credit-lime/118925-metlife-buys-sovereign-cds?source=feed 118925 MetLife joined the growing body of investors in making a large $200 million credit default swap trade to buy protection on Portugal sovereign debt.





]]> Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:11:15 -0500 MetLife joined the growing body of investors in making a large $200 million credit default swap trade to buy protection on Portugal sovereign debt.





]]> met met.b met.pa meu aig aig.pa aff bac jpm ms wfc ewp snf grdow eirl irl ewi AIG Alico American International Group American Life Insurance Company CDS Credit Default Swaps Metropolitan Life MetLife Portugal Steven Kandarian http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/580274-credit-lime/118924-credit-default-swaps-get-another-temporary-exemption?source=feed 118924 The SEC recently extended “temporary” exemptions from the Securities Exchange Act for credit default swaps to allow for the anticipated implementation of the new Dodd-Frank Act which is meant to address gaps in current financial regulation.




]]> Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:08:07 -0500 The SEC recently extended “temporary” exemptions from the Securities Exchange Act for credit default swaps to allow for the anticipated implementation of the new Dodd-Frank Act which is meant to address gaps in current financial regulation.




]]> bac jpm gs mer ms bcs db ubs cs c wfc usb nmr rbs bnpqy.pk scgly.pk crary.pk CDS credit default swap regulation Credit Default Swaps Dodd Frank Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act Rule 436(g) SEC Securities Act of 1933 Securities and Exchange Commission temporary exemption http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/580274-credit-lime/118923-weekly-spain-dominates-november-trading?source=feed 118923 Spain has clearly been the most actively traded CDS during the month of November.






]]> Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:02:38 -0500 Spain has clearly been the most actively traded CDS during the month of November.






]]> ewp san swcey.pk mer mer.i mnl fte tef az azsey.pk agngf.pk mbi ti bnpqy.pk eongy.pk crary.pk aig aig.pa snf Banco Santander Swiss Reinsurance Merrill Lynch France Telecom Telefonica Allianz Assicurazioni Generali Deutsche Telekom MBIA Telecom Italia BNP Paribas E.ON Credit Agricole American International Group http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/580274-credit-lime/118921-usa-gets-downgraded-again?source=feed 118921 Chinese credit rating agency Dagong Global Credit Rating is back in the news again after having downgraded American sovereign debt earlier this month from AA with a negative outlook to A+ with a negative outlook.






]]> Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:57:54 -0500 Chinese credit rating agency Dagong Global Credit Rating is back in the news again after having downgraded American sovereign debt earlier this month from AA with a negative outlook to A+ with a negative outlook.






]]> spy dia qqq iwm mkh wfvk iyt bil tlt shy American sovereign debt Dagong Fitch Moody’s S P Standard Poor’s USA downgrade http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/580274-credit-lime/118919-european-sovereign-cds-have-been-hitting-new-highs?source=feed 118919 Given the frequency of some of these upward movements in the credit default swap prices of some European countries, this could be an almost daily headline.



]]> Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:41:36 -0500 Given the frequency of some of these upward movements in the credit default swap prices of some European countries, this could be an almost daily headline.



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