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November 02: The WSJ is reporting that Merrill Lynch in a bid to slash its exposure to risky mortgage- backed securities, has engaged in deals with hedge funds that may have been designed to delay the day of reckoning on losses, people close to the situation said. The article goes on to say that "the transactions are among the issues likely to be examined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC is looking into how the Wall Street firm has been valuing, or "marking," its mortgage securities and how it has disclosed its positions to investors, a person familiar with the probe said. Regulators are scrutinizing whether Merrill knew its mortgage-related problem was bigger than what it indicated to investors throughout the summer."
The story is a real negative for an already beleaguered Wall Street and the AUD and other carry trade currencies have been sold against the JPY since the story broke a short time ago.
Watch out Kauri, you'll get a speeding ticket from the ostrich mob with all those D&G snipsand it just keeps on coming...
Cheers
..........Kauri
Watch out Kauri, you'll get a speeding ticket from the ostrich mob with all those D&G snips
Doom & gloom or reality & facts?D&G???? who/what is that???
Cheers
.........Kauri
Doom & gloom or reality & facts?
Think Kauri is just referencing creditable sources that paint the picture as they see it..
SevenFX
Rumours now floating around about the last NFP figures.... D&G or B&Z ??
.........and Barclays...
Cheers
..........Kauri
NFP?non farm payrolls?
D & G?B & Z?
Please explain.
What's the rumour or not prepared to repeat?
Doom and Gloom....Boom and Zoom.. all depends what side of the market you are sat on I guess..
Rumours that Barclays has been quietly dipping into the ECB lending facility for credit but I strongly guess it is someone mischieviously trying to talk thier holding up..
Cheers
..........Kauri
As they see it or as the picture really is.The Fed pumped $41b into the markets yesterday,the second largest one day amount ever.It was reported that this money went mostly to Citi who are in a real bind and could fold.
The fat lady(my apologies)has not appeared on stage yet as other Wallstreeters are expected to have larger exposure.And plenty of people have warned that this will take years to repair and at the same time will provide volatility in the markets worldwide.
Will today be Black Friday in America and the market take another large hit?
As Dan Koenig once said,"The market always has a surprise over the horizon.Firstly,it shows its ugly head and then along comes the tail which seems to have no end."
As they see it or as the picture really is.The Fed pumped $41b into the markets yesterday,the second largest one day amount ever.It was reported that this money went mostly to Citi who are in a real bind and could fold.
The fat lady(my apologies)has not appeared on stage yet as other Wallstreeters are expected to have larger exposure.And plenty of people have warned that this will take years to repair and at the same time will provide volatility in the markets worldwide.
Will today be Black Friday in America and the market take another large hit?
As Dan Koenig once said,"The market always has a surprise over the horizon.Firstly,it shows its ugly head and then along comes the tail which seems to have no end."
WTF SASSA...WHERES THE SOURCE?
WTF SASSA...WHERES THE SOURCE?
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CitiGroup CEO may quit at urgent meeting; Rubin asked to take over
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2007-11-02 22:33. Section: Daily Dispatches
Citi's Prince to Offer to Resign
By Damian Paletta, Robin Sidel, and David Enrich
The Wall Street Journal
Friday, November 2, 2007
Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Charles Prince will offer to resign on Sunday, according to people familiar with the matter.
The development comes as board members are expected to gather for an emergency meeting this weekend, people familiar with the matter said. The meeting comes amid worries of further writedowns and pressure on Mr. Prince.
Robert Rubin, the former Treasury secretary who is the chairman of Citigroup's executive committee, is being considered as a possible interim replacement, but he has balked at taking on the responsibility, those people said. A Citigroup spokeswoman declined to comment.
Citigroup directors in recent months have publicly pledged their allegiance to Mr. Prince, and he received a key vote of confidence in early October from Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the bank's biggest individual shareholder.
But the board's sentiment may have shifted in the wake of Citigroup's dismal third-quarter earnings report last month. Any change of heart may also have been spurred along this week after the board of Merrill Lynch & Co. ousted its embattled CEO, Stanley O'Neal.
Citigroup has lost more than a fifth of its market value since Oct. 12, the Friday before it reported that its third quarter earnings had slumped 57% under the weight of mortgage defaults and this summer's credit scare. The bank's shares ended trading down 2% Friday at $37.73.
In reporting its third-quarter earnings, Citigroup warned that it endured a surge in late payments on consumer mortgages in September, costing the bank $3 billion in higher losses and reserves against future bad loans and hurting the value of loans Citigroup hopes to sell to investors. Chief Financial Officer Gary Crittenden said the trend is likely to continue.
Citigroup also booked $1.56 billion in pretax losses tied to loans and subprime mortgages that were to be repackaged and sold to investors.
Equally important, the bank said its capital levels had dwindled to below the company's internal target ratios. Executives said the company would stop repurchasing its own shares until it rebuilt its capital, a process it hopes to complete by early next year. Some analysts and other experts think Citigroup will have to take more drastic actions, such as selling off assets or slicing its dividend payouts.
The third quarter losses came as Mr. Prince was already under heavy pressure from investors to get revenue up, cut costs and demonstrate that Citigroup's financial supermarket model can pay off. Investors have been frustrated by Citigroup's stagnant stock price.
http://www.gata.org/node/5686
"The smart money is getting out.The financial stocks fell heavily ON HIGH VOLUME, and only recovered on low volume,"wrote a contributor to MarketWatch."The big institutional investors are exiting on high volume points of the day and pumping up prices during low volume time periods,like after hours' trading.That cons inexperienced traders to buy.It's the old classic'pump and dump.'"
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