How Derivatives Work
by Chris They are accounted for using a “net” position. Example: Imagine that DB has sold a credit default swap to party A, but then also bought a credit default swap from party B on the same underlying position. Let’s …
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Has the derivatives volcano already begun to erupt?
via DAVID P. GOLDMAN The cure for the last crisis always turns into the cause of the next one. The economies of southern Europe – Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal – nearly collapsed in 2011, and Europe’s monetary authorities responded with …
Deutsche Bank’s Market Cap Down to $23B; Still Has $54T in Derivatives Exposure
via wallstreetonparade: Spasms in big Wall Street bank stocks have been happening on a serial basis over the past three years. (See here and here.) Yesterday offered another one of those bank warning signs to a Congress intent on further deregulation of an already …
Australia’s $37 Trillion Derivatives BLACK HOLE! Could Collapse the Entire Financial System!
$37 trillion debt. 25 million population. What could possibly go wrong? Oh and g’day from Perth, Australia When we look at Australia, we tend to find that they are following in the same path as the U.S., Canada, the …
JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank & Derivatives! (Bix Weir)
by Thinker Tough times for the big banks are upon us. The summer of 2018 will be remembered for a long, long time as the Summer from Hell for the legacy financial system! https://youtu.be/VmHzDpcnh14 Germany and the ECB will need …
Max Keiser & Craig Hemke: False Prices, Derivatives and ‘Ticking Time Bombs’
Max Keiser & Stacy Herbert, Sputniknews, Released on 5/22/18 Click Here to Listen to the Interview https://ria.ru/aurora/flv/file.aspx?ID=6958280&type=mp3 As the Pope warns about the ‘unacceptable’ ethics of ‘gambling on the failure of others’ via credit default swaps, Double Down talks to Craig Hemke of TFMetalsReport about the latest from Italy where …
THIS Company Has $60 Trillion In Derivatives and Near Collapse! ECB Sends Warning!
Who will bail out Deutsche Bank? Derivatives are a funny subject because the average person doesn’t understand them. The average person in the financial industry doesn’t understand them. Only the people who created them actually understand them. When a company …
Subprime Is Back and Bigger Than EVER! Trillions In Derivatives Exposed To Market SHOCK!
Do subprime loans continuously increasing give you cause for concern? Or is this time different? Watch out for the subprime disaster waiting to happen. You would think that banks learned their lesson last time around. Of course not! They have …
Derivatives – A Recipe For Disaster & Systemic Collapse
by Egon von Greyerz Gambling is according to Wikipedia the wagering of money (or something of value) on an event with an uncertain outcome. Three elements are required for gambling, Consideration, chance, and prize. Thus, you make a bet and …
Real Estate Prices Don't Matter! It's Trillions in Derivatives Failing WORSE Than Subprime Crisis!
Underlying all of these ups and downs are trillions in derivative products. Forget about fundamentals. The derivatives will destroy the market. In your opinion, will interest rate hikes collapse the housing market? Today, real estate is about brick and mortar …
CRASH2: More derivatives, no reforms, investors nervous, experts smug. It’s not a good look.
by John Ward One of the fundamental reasons why Bullishness about the global business and markets outlook is so widely believed around the World is the assurances we get on a daily basis that first, there are green shoots appearing; and …
Cracks Emerge in Corporate Debt Confidence, Traders Turn To Derivatives To Hedge Against Potential Losses, NYC Commercial Real Estate Sales Plunge Over 50%!
Cracks Emerge in Corporate Debt Confidence Investors are starting to get worried about the $7.2 trillion U.S. investment-grade bond market. Yes, they are still pouring money into this debt and accepting near-record low yields to own it. But look a …
$500 Trillion in Derivatives “Remain an Important Asset Class”: Hilariously, the New York Fed
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Oh, and the unintended consequences of trying to regulate a monster. Economists at the New York Fed included this gem in their report on a two-day conference on “Derivatives and Regulatory Changes” since the Financial Crisis: …
The Root Cause Of The 2008 Financial Meltdown: Derivatives
by Vics During the financial crisis in 2008, the root cause of the meltdown was derivatives. Specifically, CDOs, or Collateralized Debt Obligations related to mortgages and CDSs, or Credit Default Swaps. Derivatives encompass a wide range of financial products: futures …