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Greece re-enters Top 10 riskiest sovereigns...sort of 17 Jul 2013 | 07:53 pm
Greek Credit Default Swaps restarted trade in May since when the country's risk profile has trended down versus competitors such as Argentina, Cyprus and Venezuela! But still some ground to make up to...
The curious cases of bond vs bank financing by region 15 Jul 2013 | 12:12 am
Vernimmen produce sharp financial snippets in their newsletters. Regularly, however, they publish something that produces more questions than answers. Take this chart/text of the financing choices ma...
"Cyborg Finance" paper 5 May 2013 | 10:00 pm
Little pre-abstract primer for this paper: Detective Del Spooner: Human beings have dreams. Even dogs have dreams, but not you, you are just a machine. An imitation of life. Can a robot write a symph...
Biggest arb ever recorded ends 20 May... 2 May 2013 | 06:37 pm
Fascinating paper from Robert Treue III’s Barnegat Fund documenting what has been called in the popular press the largest arbitrage ever recorded. In the financial upheaval around the opening of this ...
Thank heavens for auditor research 7 Jan 2013 | 11:32 pm
Original here. Adulterated below.
Congressional reports & Chinese tech companies... 22 Oct 2012 | 08:45 pm
Background here and here.
From Merrill Lynch stock analyst to financial astrologer 7 Oct 2012 | 05:25 pm
Brilliant. Not sure what it says about Merrill Lynch's training methods though. Favourite quote from the 'Transcript' tab (and it was a hard decision): "Knight Capital did not take our advice to dow...
SmackDown time? Porsche 911 vs Honda Fit... 21 Sep 2012 | 08:51 pm
The choice would seem clear enough: But two funny things happened this week to Porsche. The first: CEO, Matthias Mueller, remarked that he anticipated flat demand into 2013 despite great results so f...
Eurozone bank deposits: sell the bleeders 19 Sep 2012 | 06:01 pm
Bloomberg today published this article on deposit flight from weaker to stronger members of the Eurozone banking fraternity. One might wonder if there is a relative value opportunity in this – for ex...
Apple, pairs & Samsung 18 Sep 2012 | 01:16 am
Apple vs Samsung (cointegrated spread w/Kalman filter adaptive beta) Little 'blog-app' for you. Does it truly not take a genius as Samsung suggest? Can 2 million iPhone 5 pre-orders be wrong? Apple...
