Cost of Hedging Treasury Bond Exposure Still Low, but Rising
The chances of a debt ceiling deal The Intrade prediction market enables participants to bet on whether Congress will approve an increase in the U.S. debt ceiling to $15.1 trillion on or before three...
View ArticleHedging Update — Default Watch Edition
Credit Suisse on the consequences of a default On Thursday, Credit Suisse’s global strategy team said that a U.S. default was still unlikely. However, they predicted that if the U.S. did default,...
View ArticleHedging Update — Post Debt Ceiling Edition
Hedging costs after the debt deal Last week, with the debt ceiling negotiations dragging on, we looked at the costs of hedging a handful of equity index, gold-, Treasury bond-, and dollar...
View ArticleMe in the FT, and a little more AYSI
– I neglected to mention this at the time, but I picked up a few more shares of AYSI on Thursday at $0.75. No new news on it, but when I saw it hit .75 I entered a limit order which was partially...
View ArticleMaking Sense of Mandates
For the most part, I’ve avoided writing about politics on this blog, sharing my opinions instead in 140 character bursts on Twitter. But since tweets seem to be more ephemeral than blog posts, I’m...
View ArticleTweets of the Week
Micro blogging is quicker than regular blogging, but tweets are also more ephemeral: it’s pretty common for someone to read a blog post you wrote a day or a week ago, but not so common for someone to...
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Some Potential Winners And Losers If The Senate Immigration Bill Becomes Law
Gang Of Eight Disgorges Draft Immigration Bill Early Wednesday morning, the so-called “Gang of Eight” — United States Senators Schumer, Flake, McCain, Menendez, Rubio, Graham, Bennett, and Durbin —...
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