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Now I know why the A-Train hates Goldman Sachs so much … looks like all the Goldman alums in guv-mint decided to give them a bigger break than they gave Morgan Stanley in determining worst-case scenarios in the recent stress tests performed by the Federal Reserve. Goldman’s Test Stresses Morgan Stanley Why did the stress [...] Finally, the SEC does something on which I think both A-Train and I will agree. By placing tighter restrictions on failures-to-deliver and by considering reintroducing the uptick rule, the SEC is taking away the ability for short-sellers to manipulate the markets, but legitimate short-selling should not be significantly hampered. Short Sellers Squeezed All Around – [...] A lot of people say that the recent rally in the stock markets is due to a short squeeze, but The Financial Times says that short interest is on the rise along with the markets. A-Train says it’s a sucker rally, but generally a rise in short interest drives the market down, not up. In [...] … and I’ll bet that Art has something to say about it as well, and if not the A-Train, then perhaps the cats over at Mad Dog Media … Turkish? Nothing like giving the guv’mint the right to say “Okay, you’re fucking up, so we’re gonna shut you down and sell you off …” Tapping [...] From KeatingEconomics.com: The current economic crisis demands that we understand John McCain’s attitudes about economic oversight and corporate influence in federal regulation. Nothing illustrates the danger of his approach more clearly than his central role in the savings and loan scandal of the late ’80s and early ’90s. John McCain was accused of improperly aiding [...] This is an interesting twist. Obviously, it means that Morgan Stanley will be subject to more stringent regulation, but I wonder what it fundamentally means for the business model. This will be really interesting to following over the next days/weeks/months. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley To Be Bank Holding Companies – WSJ.com The Federal Reserve said [...] Rescue Me: A Fed Bailout Crosses a Line WHAT are the consequences of a world in which regulators rescue even the financial institutions whose recklessness and greed helped create the titanic credit mess we are in? Will the consequences be an even weaker currency, rampant inflation, a continuation of the slow bleed that we have [...] Wall Street Ponders Extent Of the Woes At Other Firms By SERENA NG and JENNY STRASBURG March 15, 2008 Behind the swift decline of Bear Stearns Cos. is a deepening worry on Wall Street that some financial institutions might not be able to make good on their commitments. Such angst about the health of an [...] |
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