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“Of the five big investment banks that were in operation at the outset of this year, The Bear Stearns Cos. has already failed and been taken over, and Lehman Brothers is trying to avoid a similar fate.” — Martin Hutchinson
by Martin Hutchinson
Baltimore — (TFN): When Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE:LEH) announced a third-quarter loss [...]
Tags: bear stearns, goldman sachs, gs, investment banks, leh, Lehman Brothers, Martin Hutchinson, mer, merrill lynch, morgan stanley, ms, risk management, western front, world war i
“They are individually too small for institutions to invest in, but cobble them together in a new index that allows you to buy and sell the basket and… well, then you have something.” — Chris Mayer
by Chris Mayer
Baltimore – (TFN): When the stock market turns ugly, the quest [...]
Tags: cyprus, index, Kazakhstan, kuwait, market, merrill lynch, new frontier, pakistan, uae, united arab emirates, vietnam
“We are not in the charity business. Whoever will give me the best price, I will follow him.” -- Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, Oil Minister of Qatar
by Andrew Mickey
Baltimore – (TFN): Qatar is already taking advantage of this situation. And they’re making no qualms about their motivation: make [...]
"Even more troubling than the mortgage crisis is the havoc it is creating in the bond market. Borrowers and lenders that depend on the usually highly liquid and safe municipal bond market are suffering from a market that seemingly dried up overnight. " – Andrew Snyder
By Andrew Snyder
Baltimore (TFN) — Every major economic downturn in this nation's [...]
"Perhaps the investment community is finally discovering what my grandmother could have told you: don’t lend money to people who don’t pay back their creditors." – Stephanie Grimmett
by Stephanie Grimmett
Baltimore – (TFN) You know things are bad when CEOs are sacrificing their yearly bonuses.
In a fit of corporate maturity, the CEOs and [...]
Tags: bankrupcy, bankruptcy, bear sterns, bear sterns (BSC: NYSE), ceo, end of year bonus, executive bonus, goldman sachs, goldman sachs (GS: NYSE), john mack, merrill lynch, morgan stanley, morgan stanley (MS: NYSE), subprime, subprime write down, writedown