So from a strategic point of view, we believe equity investors want and need to see stronger economic and earnings results to drive indexes higher, while bond investors need just the opposite to calm Treasury yields down.
June 3rd, 2009 | Rob Parenteau | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "commercial banks"
Hell, Meet Handbasket, Part I
Until recently, average Americans were only dimly aware that there were two types of banks – the commercial banks nearby and the major investment banks located in faraway New York. Understanding the bank where they conducted business, with people they knew, was enough.
November 13th, 2008 | Doug Hornig | 2 comments | Continued
Value of Derivatives Held By U.S. Commercial Banks Has Plunged By $8 trillion
There is a new report from the Comptroller of the Currency titled “OCC’s Quarterly Report on Bank Trading and Derivative Activities, Fourth Quarter 2007″, which shows that total bank holdings of derivatives is estimated to be “only” $164.2 trillion, whereas I seem to remember that the global glut of derivatives is upward of $700 trillion, which are both numbers so big that I cannot even begin to comprehend the enormity of them.
April 29th, 2008 | Mogambo Guru | 12 comments | Continued