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• Is Dubai a sign of things to come?

  
  Van Santos — Authority: 138
  While the world was caught off guard by the news that Dubai is on the verge of defaulting on their debt, Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum, a family member of the Dubai’s ruling class, noted the decision to announce was carefully planned . I have no doubt the decision was planned; however, what does not add up to ...
  5 hours ago

• The mirage in Dubai

  
  A World to Win — Authority: 126
  Dubai was a property dream literally built on sand and borrowed money, where the rich could enjoy the sun and watch their assets soar in value. But like so much of recent capitalism, it has proved more mirage than substance. Dubai World, the emirate’s main holding company, has asked for a six-month debt holiday ...
  20 hours ago

• Dubai is just a harbinger of things to come for sovereign debt

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Finance Blog — Authority: 669
  Watch out. This may be just the beginning. In the scale of things, the debt problems of Dubai are little more than a flea bite. Dubai’s sovereign debts total “just” $80bn, which counts for nothing against the trillions being raised by advanced economies to plug fiscal deficits.Small wonder, though, that this ...
  21 hours ago

• The Trouble With a Sovereign Debt Crisis

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 550
  The trouble with a sovereign debt crisis is that you just never know what the tipping point is going to be. Things can be travelling along nicely with apparent stability and suddenly you find yourself in the middle of a crisis. For the last month weve been warning about a sovereign debt crisis in the Western Welfare ...
  1 day ago

• Dubai Defaults, Deflation In Action & “The Watched Pot” Theory Revisited

  
  Veritas Vos Liberabit — Authority: 475
  Dubai Defaults – Deflation In Action – Watched Pot Theory Revisited by Michael Shedlock Last night after a 10 hour drive I was up at 5:00AM watching the futures plunge but not knowing why. Now we know: Dubai default fears spook investors Global stock markets endured heavy selling on Thursday as investors ...
  1 day ago

• What Dubai Says About Capitalism: Not Much

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  You sort of just knew Dubai was going to implode.  Or if you didnt, you sure should have. Bloomberg reports: Dubai is shaking investor confidence across the Persian Gulf after its proposal to delay debt payments risked triggering the biggest sovereign default since Argentina in 2001.   The cost of ...
  1 day ago

• Dubai World Seeks Debt Delay, Owes $59 Billion; Default Swaps Soar .... SCHADENFREUDE....

  
  immobilienblasen — Authority: 120
  I have to repeat myself More Bad News For Dubai ...... Muß mich da wohl erneut wiederholen More Bad News For Dubai ...... Dubai World Seeks Debt Delay as Abu Dhabi Provides $5 Billion Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Dubai World , the government-owned holding company struggling with $59 billion of ...
  2 days ago

• At what point, some financial analysts ask, do rating agencies downgrade the United States?

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  They don’t. They’re not foolish enough to incur the wrath of the government. At least no ratings organization based in the US is going to downgrade US sovereign debt. They don’t need to, though. Everyone able to do rudimentary math knows what’s going to happen. When do lenders price additional risk to federal ...
  3 days ago

• Investors Begin To Seriously Worry About Sovereign Defaults On Government Debt

  
  OHOMEN171 — Authority: 138
  Bets rise on rich country defaults By David Oakley, Capital Markets Correspondent Published: November 23 2009 02:00 | Last updated: November 23 2009 02:00 The mounting level of debt in the industrialised world is prompting investors to use the derivatives market to bet on the chance of rich governments ...
  4 days ago

• Place Your Bets – Which Nation Will Default First?

  
  Stock Market Analysis, Trading, And Financial Commentary - Rebel Traders — Authority: 136
  The amount of money being placed on the ‘ wheel of nation defaults ‘ has risen quite remarkably over the past year. Some investors are using the derivatives market to place bets that the United States, Japan, and/or the United Kingdom will default on their bonds at some future date. It all comes down to the ...
  5 days ago

• Sovereign CDS Are On The March Again

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  With todays news out of Ukraine, which may or may not be a dud (although with the economy hardly functioning courtesy of massive quarantines and business shut downs) sparking off what may or may not have been a a huge dollar squeeze (we are still waiting to hear back from the ICE), one observation is that sovereign ...
  1 week ago

• Borrowing and Paying Back in a Foreign Currency

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 550
  The electricians are working furiously to restore power to our headquarters here in St. Kilda. But in the meantime, your editor sat down at 6:30 this morning and did things the old fashioned way. We bought a cup of coffee from the Grocery Bar, bought a few newspapers, and began chortling and taking notes. In todays ...
  1 week ago

• Mexican BBB Downgrade By Fitch Imminent, Claims JPMorgan

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Those leaches stuck to the groin of Wall Street, the rating agencies, may make a repeat appearance, (and, oh no Mr. Geithner, they may have a destabilizing statement - quick, bail out AIG again before it is too late!) when Fitch today downgrades Mexico to BBB. Or so JP Morgan believes. Both Fitch and S&P rate ...
  1 week ago

• Home Builders Receive Massive Windfall (Bailout)

  
  Stock Market Analysis, Trading, And Financial Commentary - Rebel Traders — Authority: 136
  Once again we see another disguised bailout. Remember that Obama said the bailouts were over, instead they just disguise them. On Nov. 6, President Obama signed the Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Act of 2009 into law, extending unemployment benefits by 20 weeks and renewing the first-time homebuyer ...
  1 week ago

• Finding Assets that Out Run Inflation as Bond Yields Move Up

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 550
  The week began with your editor wondering how the bond market would choke down another $81 billion in U.S. Treasury debt. On Monday, it swallowed $40 billion in three-year notes with gusto, and even belched in satisfaction. Demand, analysts said, hadnt been that strong since 1990-when the bond vigilantes used the bond ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Worlds Most Important Trading Desk Is Not At Goldman, But Is On The 9th Floor Of 33 Liberty Street

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Even though our good Samaritan friends at One New York Plaza may take offense to this designation, the trading desk that controls the formerly free world is not located anywhere on the premises of Goldman Sachs, but is instead situated on the 9th floor of 33 Liberty Street, also known as the home New York Fed. From a ...
  2 weeks ago

• United Kingdom Sovereign AAA Rating At Most Risk

  
  Stock Market Analysis, Trading, And Financial Commentary - Rebel Traders — Authority: 136
  This evening Fitch Ratings issued a statement that the AAA sovereign rating of the United Kingdom is the most at risk to lose that sovereign rating. Fitch also stated that Japan is being watch carefully and Fitch is concerned about Japan issuance of JGB which would prompt a rating review. The United States rating ...
  2 weeks ago

• Michael Milken On The Five Biggest Systemic Threats

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 143
  Michael Milken , Jedi of Junk Bonds and fall-guy cum Darth Vader, weighs in on systemic threats to the US financial system. This article is a guest contribution from Tyler Durden, of the Zero Hedge Blog. Time to start loading up on those sovereign CDS. Today Michael Milken provided some insight into what the ...
  3 weeks ago

• U.S. Government Must Roll Over $3.4 Trillion in Debt Over Next Four Years

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 550
  Its Melbourne Cup day. A few years ago we didnt really believe it was the race that stops a nation. But these days we know better, and the keyboards are mostly silent at our new HQ across the street from the Prince of Wales. Ours, however, clacked away. There are some pretty big issues we left hanging with yesterdays ...
  3 weeks ago

• Guest Post: Bucking The Trend

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Submitted by Contrary Investor It should be absolutely plainly obvious to everyone at this point that the direction of the dollar and many an alternative financial and physical asset class have been very highly negatively directionally correlated for some time ...
  4 weeks ago

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