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In the March 28th Wall St. Journal, an article appeared describing the recent plunging price activity for an exotic Exchange Traded Note (ETN). An ETN is not to be confused with an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF). ETFs hold actual securi... Read more
We bid goodbye to 2011, a stressful year for most risk investors in which all things fixed income performed best. Click here to see our table that visually presents how various asset classes performed in 2011 and how those same asset classes performed since 200 Read more
Over the last 3 months, US Treasury yields have fallen in sympathy with rising European sovereign fears and concern over a faltering US economy. The term structure of interest rates, also known as the yield curve, has experienced a mark... Read more
You may be legitimately asking – “What the heck is going on out there?” Well, we don't really read or respect articles that try to give an explanation of "today's market activity". Markets are far too complicated to encapsulate ... Read more
Meredith Whitney is a capital markets professional who gained a large amount of recognition as a credit analyst for appropriately predicting in 2007 that large domestic banks, in particular Citigroup, were woefully under-capitalized. Sh... Read more