• Gordon_Gekko
    03/11/2010 - 07:29
    Evidence seems to be mounting that we are headed towards some sort of implosion in the paper Gold market, and perhaps the currency/bond markets in general. Got physical Gold?
  • madhedgefundtrader
    03/11/2010 - 00:26
    Investing in Russia is a double edged sword. Shareholder rights are virtually unknown. Cross the government, and they’ll through you in jail. But the land of Lenin and Red Square has the cash to finance a serious growth spurt. GDP is flipping from a -7.9% rate in 2009 to an expected 3.2% this year. Russians have no credit card debt, no home mortgages, and terrible housing, but the resource wealth to buy what they need. Just watch out for the knock on the door in the middle of the night.(RSX)

Potential Ukrainian Default Spooking Markets

Tyler Durden's picture




Are the dominoes about to start falling? From Morgan Stanley's London desk:

Ukrainian Railway defaulted on a Barclays bond. They have another, government guaranteed obligation with DB. If DB accelerates the payment & IF it is then not paid, it will count as a government default.

We are closely following the releases out of S&P and Moody's analysts to see if they have gotten into the office after their leisurely orgy at the nearest Turkish bath insider info leak session. Potentially nothing actionable just yet, but that a government-backed bond can't make its payments, should prompt the IMF apparatchiks to promptly take the next Textron Cessna straight into Kiev (after they get 20 Goldman flu shots each) and spend a few more billions in US taxpayer money and/or sell more gold to quickly stuff even more corpses under the carpet.

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