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Whalen And Griffin On OTC Derivatives

From yesterday's hearing before the U.S. Senate on Over The Counter Derivatives.


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More Bad News For Boeing: Sea Launch Files For Bankruptcy

Commercial satellite-launch services provider Sea Launch, which is 40% owned by 787 on time manufacturer extraordinaire, Boeing, filed for bankruptcy last night in Delaware (09-12513). The Long Beach company which has used the Kazakhstan Baikonur Space Center for rocket launches in the past, has listed liabilities of over $1 billion.


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Mortgage Vigilantes Beating Death Drums

Even though the market's brief hiccup into green territory was promptly corrected (as expected earlier), it is the mortgage vigilantes' turn to beat the death drum. The 30 Yr Mortgage - 10 Yr UST spread is not helping the new, existing, and otherwise home sale green shoots. And this on top of the Treasury's $7 billion in Open Market purchases of bonds yesterday.


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Mortgage Vigilantes Beating Death Drums

Even though the market's brief hiccup into green territory was promptly corrected (as expected earlier), it is the mortgage vigilantes' turn to beat the death drum. The 30 Yr Mortgage - 10 Yr UST spread is not helping the new, existing, and otherwise home sale green shoots. And this on top of the Treasury's $7 billion in Open Market purchases of bonds yesterday.


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Morning News Recap

Some developing stories:

  • US Justice department says NYT report saying it would drop suit against UBS is "simply untrue" (source BNO)

  • Austria has announced it will sell debt denominated in USD, CHF and JPY. Good to see someone's fair opinion of what is most overvalued in this world.
  • Greece vehemently denies rumors it may drop EURO. Dick Fuld vehemently denied Lehman is going bankrupt two days before it went bankrupt.

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    Snapshot Of The GS Conviction List

    Zero Hedge had some fun recently analyzing the extensive thought process that goes into the decision making that leads to the addition (and, more relevantly, subtraction) of any given stock from the Goldman Sachs conviction list. One could say a case study of exhaustive insight and careful risk management it was not.


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    Snapshot Of The GS Conviction List

    Zero Hedge had some fun recently analyzing the extensive thought process that goes into the decision making that leads to the addition (and, more relevantly, subtraction) of any given stock from the Goldman Sachs conviction list. One could say a case study of exhaustive insight and careful risk management it was not.


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    Goldman Sachs Analyzes Its Risk Exposure

    Until yesterday, the only real risk at the 5th branch of government (4th is the PIMCO/BlackRock two headed hydra) was making sure that 2009 is the year of the biggest bonuses on record (amusingly, now that Cerberus has all but followed Chrysler to its ignominious end (oddly missing from the company's industry expertise page - one would t


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    Daily Highlights: 6.23.09

    • China shares fall on worries about world economy but banks and steel gained.
    • Euro edges higher against dollar as Federal Reserve to start 2-day meeting.
    • Euro zone manufacturing improvement helps recession ease in June.
    • House Democrats to open hearings on a sweeping health care bill.
    • Japan may end $1.5 billion Venezuela loan on seizures.
    • Japan shares fall after Wall Street’s tumble, investors awaits fresh new on global economy from Fed’s policy meeting.
    • Obama set to sign into law an antismoking bill that will give the FDA unprecedented aut

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    Frontrunning: June 23

    • Boeing announces yet another 787 delay, prior delivery date of Q3 2010 scrapped: are those titanium/carbon frame suppliers still alive?

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    All quiet on the western front...

    Well, your favorite macro correspondent is back from his break. It's going to take a few days to get back into the swing of things but I may not have that much time...

    Meanwhile, a quick look at USD should be a good complement to your morning coffee - the vol has been essentially sideways for the past couple of months and the carry unwind risk is back to the middle of Greenspan-era liquidity. Yup nothing to see here folks, move it along. 


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    Guest Post: An Efficiency Revolution Long-Overdue And Real World Implications

    Submitted by Günter Leitold

    I guess there is a very good chance that there will be fundamental changes to global financial markets within the next 5 to 10 years.

    This will not only include adjustments to rules and regulations, the structure of how markets work, instruments and processes, but also include fundamental changes in how participants operate and what the financial institutions of the future will look like.


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    Fast Track Airport Lane Files For Liquidation

    One of the most overhyped and underdelivering companies in the world has liquidated, less than a few years after spending a boatload of capex to purchase uber-expensive machines that ended up being complete garbage and will probably reap 5 cents on the dollar in salvage value. Cardmembers are currently in process of getting their notifications.


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    Fast Track Airport Lane Files For Liquidation

    One of the most overhyped and underdelivering companies in the world has liquidated, less than a few years after spending a boatload of capex to purchase uber-expensive machines that ended up being complete garbage and will probably reap 5 cents on the dollar in salvage value. Cardmembers are currently in process of getting their notifications.


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    Overalottment: June 22

    • Must read: Researching corruption at the Treasury: The PPT 101 (Market Skeptics)
    • NRG suit against Exelon bid dismissed (WSJ)
    • State Street will have something to say about this: Fed in discussions on changing Repo transactions (Bloomberg)

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