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NY Times: First Comes the Swap. Then It’s the Knives Like a homeowner’s policy that insures against fire or flood damage, credit default swaps are intended to cover losses to banks and bondholders when companies that have issued debt are unable to pay it back. The nominal value of the insurance outstanding is now $62 trillion, up from $900 billion in 2000. During a Feb. 22, 2007, phone call, Paramax contends in the filing, it was informed by Mr. Rothman that “UBS set its marks on the basis o

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High Food Prices for the Next Decade zogger Sat May 31 21:26:00 -0700 2008 Science The Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN has issued a new report on commodities with a basic prediction that high prices for food products will persist over the next decade, although there should be some easing soon from extreme peaks. They caution though that even with a slight easing, there could be unexpected volatility because of the nature of the global markets,and a huge number of

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Determining Yield On Bonds Determining Yield On Bonds Ignoring the maturity value, we say the “current yield” is the annual interest, $40, divided by the price, which gives five percent. But at maturity, this bond will have a value $200 more than its current price. The “yield to maturity” includes the prospective change in value as well as the annual interest. At present, the […]

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Microwave Is Redirected to Kill Shipboard Pests Chris Gash What do you use your microwave oven for? Reheating coffee? Making popcorn? Baking potatoes? Dorin Boldor, an assistant professor at Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, has another use for that modern marvel of the kitchen: fighting invasive species. He and his colleagues have developed a microwave system to continuously heat the ballast water in cargo ships to kill off alien algae or other organisms. As they unloa

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Words from the Wise: Gone Fishing Prieur du Plessis Writes: At the moment I am attending Rob Arnott’s Research Affiliates’ annual gathering of its advisory panel at Laguna Beach, California. A rather full schedule will unfortunately result in my not being able to put together “Words from the Wise” for the past week. My apologies for any inconvenience caused, but rest assured that the normal blogging service will be resumed this week. Please visit my website (by clicking on the heading above)

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It’s safe to say that the war on speculation has now officially entered the realm of Minority Report: Bloomberg: CFTC to Examine Oil Traders’ Intent, Ex-Officials Say An investigation of oil trading by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission will likely target evidence that traders intended to manipulate markets rather than just schemed to make money, former officials of the agency said. That being said, Minority Report was a great

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced yesterday that they are looking very hard at possibly closing a regulatory loophole that allowed some extremely large commodity index funds to get around position limits. For those not familiar with the concept of limits, it basically works like this. No trader or fund is allowed to own more than a specific amount of a commodity traded on the futures exchange. This limit varies from commodity to commodity and exchange to exchange. The point i

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Beat the Market with a Contrarian Strategy | Contrarian Profits wrote an interesting post today on
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De-Mystifying Those Oil Prices Why is the price of oil so high? And how can you get a cut of the action? The price of oil is mainly affected by four factors: 1) demand, 2) supply, 3) the value of the U.S. dollar, and 4) the performance of the stock market. Demand Right now demand is high because we all need oil to function. Not only to fuel our cars and planes, but also to create anything made out of plastic. Plus, consumer behavior doesn’t change that fast. Even now that gas costs 4 bu

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