Top 25 Most-Favored Stocks In High Frequency Trading
From Institutional Investor, comes this list of favored HFT names: > Favorites High Frequency US Trading Stocks, 2008-10 Company Name...
Muni Stress
•New York Times – Obama Presses for Aid to Cities and States President Obama on Saturday implored Congress to provide more aid to...
Forced selling puts European debt under pressure
Due to forced selling by investment grade managers, Greek bonds are down sharply following the belated downgrade of their credit rating...
Moody’s Downgrades Greece (Also, Kennedy was shot)
On Monday, Moody’s downgraded Greece’s government bond ratings to junk status of Ba1 from A3. As legislators debate new...
Bankruptcy Won’t Help BP Avoid Costs
“It’s highly unlikely the claims would be so large that BP would pay any valid claims less than in full. The environmental claims and...
Volcker: End of the Too Big to Fail?
Discussing the future of financial regulation, with Paul Volcker, former FOMC chairman Airtime: Mon. Jun. 14 2010 | 7:00 DT ET Hat tip Jay
Monday Readings
A few interesting reads that caught my eye: • Calling a Bear a Bear (Barron’s) • The most discussed article of the day: U.S....
Risk vs. Reward
Discussing whether we really are in a double-dip recession, with Lakshman Achuthan, Economic Cycle Research Institute. Jun. 11 2010 |...
The Physics of Oil Spills
Nice explanation of how Oil spreads and decomposes, from MSNBC. There are 8 steps involved: Spreading, Evaporation, Dispersion,...