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Posted by Sam Jones on FT's Alphaville : Forget the short-lived buzz of $300bn in TARP stimulus, pain for the banks is far from over. Real deleveraging is only just beginning to gather speed; the world economy has yet to enter its worst months, and there are certainly more writedowns to come. Oppenheimer’s Meredith Whitney is - when it comes to banks’ capital positions - the analyst to turn to. And...
P osted by Sam Jones on FT Alphaville : It might be imperceptable to the naked eye, but the nature of credit is changing. The seismic changes on the Fed’s balance sheet are going to be felt in a myriad of ways: most obviously as the yield curve flattens out and effective rates begin to zero. Most worrying for the Fed in the short term will be the danger of repo failures. The repo market is a huge,...
From "Clutching at Historians" posted by Sam Jones at the FT's Alphaville : From the University of Reading: Research by a team of academics at the University of Reading’s ICMA Centre has established clear parallels between the events of King Edward I’s time in the late 13th century and today’s credit crunch. Not too much dissimilar in leading to the work of historian Philip Kay, of Oxford, who in November...
Still recovering from some type of GI thing. Hopefully, I’ll have something thoughtful and intelligent to say tomorrow with Israel invading Gaza, the economy is still in the tank, oil prices are increasing again. Finally, the jazz great Freddie Hubbard has died. From Wiki: Hubbard started playing the mellophone and trumpet in his school band, studying at the [...] ShareThis
Spike TV developing college football comedy FOX is taking another spin into the supernatural, ordering a pilot script for a dramedy about a group of friends who are also werewolves.
NC State’s football recruiting has been on a tear over the last couple of weeks as Coach O’Brien has been adding commitments and quickly moving toward a full class for the year. It is no surprise that offensive line continues to be a primary need for the Wolfpack’s recruiting; and, tonight State added two [...]
Dock Ellis passed away yesterday. (Hat tip to BBTF.) Few realize this, but, while Ellis was best known for his days with the Pirates, he was a member of one of the best Yankees starting rotations in terms of wins. Via Baseball-Reference.com’s Play Index Pitching Season Finder, here are the only Yankees teams where more [...]
HERNDON, Va., 15 Dec. 2008. Northrop Grumman Corp. won a task order under the U.S. Army's Field and Installation Readiness Support Team (FIRST) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to provide logistical support to Fort Polk, La., and the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC). The task order is valued at more than $90 million over five years.
Indianapolis -- Jet engine maker Rolls-Royce said it will recruit 100 experienced machinists at a job fair today. Candidates will be screened at the Rolls-Royce training center from 8 to 11 a.m. Candidates are advised to take three copies of their resumes showing they have machining experience of at least one year.
If you've got cash to burn this holiday season, turn to Nordstrom. The retailer has just announced its first-ever Ultimate Gift Collection , which stocks one-of-a-kind gifts by Tory Burch, Juicy Couture, artist Ruben Toledo, and celebrity photographer Sam Jones. For $15,000, you can get a custom silk Ikat couch designed by Burch or an armoire designed and stocked by Juicy (below). What's the justification...
Posted by Sam Jones on FT Alphaville : The FSA’s voluminous banking liquidity “consultation paper” is available here. It contains, among other things, a whole raft of new standards for UK banks to conform to. Central to those are what appear to be rigorous new rules over banks internal modelling of liquidity risk. There are literally pages of new modelling requirements. Plenty to keep quants busy for...
Two men were indicted Thursday on charges of firing a shotgun at another man in October. Bryan resident Myron LeKeith Chambers and College Station resident Mari ...
