Archive - Feb 2009

By the way, that's Nationalization... Just wanted to get that out of the way. So what is so terrifying about nationalization that only the Duo of Doom (Roubini and Taleb) dares to expound on it profusely on prime time CNBC (and engender more boycotts of the otherwise harmless TV station)? Fundamentally, any recapitalization of banks by the government involves stripping or diluting certain asset classes of their value.

Bloomberg reports that Bill Ackman has done the unthinkable and actually apologized for his performance (granted, it was some performance).

Treasury selloff continues. As equities are poised to hit ridiculously high fwd P/E ratios, someone is making sure that Bernanke and Bill Gross hit the Prozac handout line. Hold on, wasn't the Fed buying treasuries? What about the world's biggest bond fund? Based on this chart, seems like sellers are outnumbering buyers by just a tad...

Treasury selloff continues. As equities are poised to hit ridiculously high fwd P/E ratios, someone is making sure that Bernanke and Bill Gross hit the Prozac handout line. Hold on, wasn't the Fed buying treasuries? What about the world's biggest bond fund? Based on this chart, seems like sellers are outnumbering buyers by just a tad...

Treasury selloff continues. As equities are poised to hit ridiculously high fwd P/E ratios, someone is making sure that Bernanke and Bill Gross hit the Prozac handout line. Hold on, wasn't the Fed buying treasuries? What about the world's biggest bond fund? Based on this chart, seems like sellers are outnumbering buyers by just a tad...

Many people have written me with thoughts on Kanjorski's lack of traditional political evasiveness as demonstrated by his C-Span interview. Whereas most are opinion based, and the last thing Zero Hedge tries to do is change people's opinions, one thing seems to be evading most.

Many people have written me with thoughts on Kanjorski's lack of traditional political evasiveness as demonstrated by his C-Span interview. Whereas most are opinion based, and the last thing Zero Hedge tries to do is change people's opinions, one thing seems to be evading most.

Many people have written me with thoughts on Kanjorski's lack of traditional political evasiveness as demonstrated by his C-Span interview. Whereas most are opinion based, and the last thing Zero Hedge tries to do is change people's opinions, one thing seems to be evading most.

As recent scary results out of American Express and other credit card companies demonstrated only too well, it is but a matter of time before consumers decide to not make any more credit cards payments at all. Credit card portfolios, along with pretty much every other security over the past 5 years, got securitized to an insane degree, with subsequent splits into loss tranches (e.g., AAA, A, BBB, etc).

Just out - Ted French, Textron's CFO as well as CEO of Textron Financial, is no longer with the company, effective immediately, after overseeing a 90% price drop in the stock price over the past 8 months. He must have seen the writing on the wall. Next up: Gulfstream, Hawker, Bombardier, Embraer and of course Dassault.

Gotta love the total pro forma debt of $10.4 billion

(Capitalization table from prospectus)

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More great news out of GM

Bob Lutz Moves to Senior Advisor Role; Will Retire at End of 2009
Tom Stephens Becomes Vice Chairman - Global Product Development

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DETROIT, Feb. 9

The secondary market for hedge fund interests seems to follow the general market tick for tick. Last week saw a surprising bid side interest for most hedge funds' LP stakes, although there were the usual pukes.

Week of February 2 - 6:

- 17 investment grade deals done for $20.4 billion, largest issuer was Novartis with $5 billion 10 year notes

Year To Date non-FDIC backed issuance:

- 80 deals, $77.225 billion

January indicative yields:

- Investment Grade average yield of 6.7%, Treasury spread of T+444
- High Yield average yield 11.4%, Treasury spread of T+962