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AB Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog

ABS failed (1); ABS securitization market (1); moved entire ABS portfolio (1).

zero hedge Sun 2010-04-25 14:23 EDT

Exclusive: Second Whistleblower Emerges - A Deep Insider's Walkthru To Silver Market Manipulation

A second whistleblower speaks. As the topic of physical delivery has gained prominent attention recently, it is crucial to complete the circle and show how this weakest link in the PM market is (ab)used by the big boys: Phibro and Warren Buffet. Pay particular attention to the analogues between the methods employed in the 90's commodity market and how the PM (and equity) market is being gamed currently. And to think that each new generation of traders believes it has discovered something new...As a market maker in silver options from 1989 to 2000 I was present during both the 1994 and 1997 silver events. They were seminal in my education of gamesmanship in trading and how probabilities can come up short...

Deep Insider's Walkthru; exclusive; Silver Market Manipulation; whistleblower emerging; Zero Hedge.

zero hedge Wed 2009-11-25 10:10 EST

Shadow Banking Topology

A new paper by the IMF provides much needed insights into the nature of Asset Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP) conduits, which amounted to $1.2 trillion in June 2007, a subset of the broader Commercial Paper shadow asset class (which as Bill Dudley discussed a week ago, hit a peak of $2.3 trillion), and the product's role in funding imbalances (and maturity mismatch) at global banks courtesy of the shadow banking system. However, the most useful observation of the paper's addenda include insights into the global shadow banking system's holdings, as well as its changing composition over time, the collapse of the ABS securitization market whose reincarnation via TALF is critical for preventing the CRE market's implosion in 2012, and lastly a comprehensive overview of the entire shadow banking system...

Shadow Banking Topology; Zero Hedge.

Thu 2009-02-26 00:00 EST

FT.com / Capital Markets - Half of all CDOs of ABS failed

by Paul J Davies

ABS failed; Capital Markets; CDOs; com; FT.

Fri 2008-05-16 00:00 EDT

Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Paint Lipstick on this Pig

Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Paint Lipstick on this Pig; Freddie Mac moves 120 billion to level 3 assets; moved entire ABS portfolio into level 3; level 3 assets now 23% of total assets

economic; Market; Paint Lipstick; Pigs; watch; winter.

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