Friday, April 9, 2010

Friday Night Linkfest

Well what can I say?  Studying for the CFA is making it difficult to post as much as I would like.  Here is some weekend reading for inquiring minds.

Greece moves to make it more difficult to short their debt by eliminating naked shorting of Greek bonds.  Fair enough.  Story here.

Regulators of Fannie Mae claim that the business was felled its the business model.  Hmm I thought it was tragically comedic risk management practices?

UBS' risk appetite indicator is approaching extremes, indicating that downside risk is building in the equity markets.

Citi's Prince and Rubin get excoriated on Capitol Hill, while maintaining that Citi had the best risk management on Wall Street? Now there's a tough sell.

James Chanos argues that China is on the 'treadmill to hell'.  His hedge fund was among the first to spot problems at Enron and he claims that 60% of China's economy is dependent on construction. Claims definitely worth following up on.  I will post the link to the full Charlie Rose interview when it becomes available.

Interesting chart detailing the maturity/yield trade-off for various asset classes.

The Economist weighs in on Greece.

Fitch downgrades Greece to BBB- from BBB+.

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