Capital Markets

Just Price Carbon

Jon Anda | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Carbon, Energy, Climate Policy, Carbon Price, Capital Markets, Global Energy, Climate Change, Carbon Tax Energy Carbon, Green News

Blame it on the recession or natural gas prices or politics or whatever else. But we cannot deny that we are in green financial crisis, and one that is steadily worsening.

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2012 Predictions: What to Expect in Capital Markets

John Bates | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: High-Frequency Trading, Financial Terrorism, Capital Markets, Predictions, 2012 Predictions, Rogue Trader, Volcker Rule, Sef, Business News

Here are nine capital markets predictions for 2012.

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Mideast Braces Itself for a Multi-Year Transition

Masood Ahmed | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Inclusive Growth, Economic Downturn, Capital Markets, Macroeconomic Stability, International Monetary Fund, Oil Exports, Oil Prices, Jobs, Risks, Imf, Imfdirect, Regional Economic Outlook: Middle East and North Africa, Business News

2011 has not been an easy year for many countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The combination of domestic unrest and external uncertainty has resulted in a marked downturn in economic activity, and this is expected to pick up only gradually.

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Standing Up to China, the Obama Way

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Obama, Western Capital Markets, Hu Jintao, Darfur, South China Sea, United Nations, Chinese Currency Appreciation, Chinese Expansionism, Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Diplomacy, China, Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, Chinese Intransigence, Pla, Chinese Unemployment, Chinese Pragmatism, Incrementalism, G8, State-Owned Enterprise, Gradualism, Chinese Anxiety, China's Territorial Unity, Xi Jinping, Exports, China Social Cohesion, China Territorial Cohesion, People's Liberation Army, Liu Xiaobo, Capital Markets, Harmony, Macro-Economic Policy, Inflation, Communist Party, Security Council, g20, Chinese Middle Class, India, Hillary Clinton, Sudan, Currency Appreciation, Buddhism, Peaceful Rise, China's Economic Rebalancing, North Korea, World News

As the senior leader of one Chinese state-owned enterprise said to me, "I used to think [Obama] was nice. Then I realized he was intelligent. Now I know he's shrewd, just like Hu Jintao. Your leader is a strategist."

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Martin Wolf: How To Fight The Currency Wars With China

ft.com | Martin Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Germany, Currency Wars, Yuan, Martin Wolf, Government Bonds, China, Japan, Chinese Currency, Capital Markets, World Trade Organization, Lombard Street Research, David Hume, Remnibi, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Business News

Has the time for a currency war with China arrived? The answer looks increasingly to be yes. The politics and economics of an assault on Chinese excha...

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Why I'm Not Singing the Metro Blue Line Blues

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LA Times, Milken Institute, Capital Markets, South LA, Washington, Transit-Oriented Development, 30/10, Metro, Subway to the Sea, Congress, Blue Line, Los Angeles, Public Private Partnerships, Uli, Los Angeles News

Changing the way LA commutes and lives is not just a pipe dream. All over the city people and organizations are working in positive ways to make life here better.

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A New Spin on Bank Fraud: Banks Defrauding Their Investors, Auditors and Regulators, Which Also Helps Delinquent Mortgagees

Reggie Middleton | Posted 05.25.2011

Last week, I made clear to my readers and subscribers that the bank malaise is not over, despite what may appear to be encouraging moves by the exec...

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Darth Goldman: The Enterprise Value Strikes Back

Norb Vonnegut | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Abacus, Goldman Sachs, Sec, Robert Khuzami, Wall Street, Financial Reform, Cdos, Capital Markets, Business News

Yesterday, Goldman Sachs settled fraud charges associated with Abacus CDOs for $550 million. Not surprisingly, the settlement excluded Fabrice P. Tour...

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The World Applauds the New Financial Regulation

Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Capital Markets, Senate, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, FInancial Markets, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Banks, United States, Credit Cards, Dood-Frank Act, Europe, Bernie Madoff, Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, Business News

Many market participants were actually waiting for the US legislation to look at the architecture of finance in the 21st Century. That is exactly what was delivered last week.

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Financial Reform: Who's the Fox in the Henhouse?

Norb Vonnegut | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Magnetar, Hedgistan, Cdos, Capital Markets, Business News

What's worse -- alleged fraud by an investment bank or unchecked profiteering by hedge funds using toxic securities?

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Goldman Sachs and the Tourre de Toxic

Norb Vonnegut | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Financial Scandals, Banks, Bailouts, Fabrice Tourre, Capital Markets, Business News

I'm no apologist for Goldman Sachs. But everybody in this trade--the banks, Goldman Sachs, Paulson's hedge fund--was guilty of financial privateering in one form or another.

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Restricting Bank Funding for Hedge Funds: Paul Volcker Does Not Go Far Enough

Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011

While Alan Greenspan has been busy denying any blame or foresight into the financial crisis, Paul Volcker has been working to dissociate the speculative risks of hedge funds from banking. But "The Volcker Rule," does not go far enough.

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Travel Advisory: The Cats of Amsterdam

Norb Vonnegut | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Travel, Amsterdam, Capital Markets, Comedy News

Here's what happened three weeks ago to the day -- March 17, 2010. The signs were all there. I should have seen it coming. It was a Wednesday, a Worst...

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Greece: the Brussels Compromise Compromises the Euro

Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, India, Eurozone, United Kingdom, Brazil, European Union, Argentina, U.S., President, Lisbon Treaty, Monetary-Fund, Switzerland, Capital Markets, Ecb, Ukrain, Greece, Lenders, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Jean-Claude Trichet, Treaty of Maastricht, Reserve Currency, Bond, Imf, President of European Central Bank, Portugal, Financial Stability Pact, Notary, China, World News

The fact that an agreement was found is a tribute to the capability of Europeans to compromise. But their agreement compromises the status of the Euro as a reserve currency.

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Does Orrin Hatch Want to Bail Out the Hamptons?

Norb Vonnegut | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wall Street, Hedge Funds, Carried Interest, Hedgistan, Orrin Hatch, Wealth Management, BP Oil Spill, Capital Markets, Business News

It's not about "belly up" as Senator Hatch suggests. It's about "pony up" and our nation's need to make tax laws more even-handed.

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Financial Reform and the Fungus Five

Norb Vonnegut | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wall Street, Banks, James Inhofe, Sam Brownback, Financial Reform, Bankers, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Jim Demint, Flash Crash, Capital Markets, Politics News

Here are five "amendments" that have nothing to do with sub-prime debt or banking leverage. In keeping with the petri dish metaphor, I've dubbed them the "Fungus Five"

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Microfinance USA puts Savings on the Table

Ben Mangan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Capital Markets, Earn, Equity, Microfinance, Accion USA, Opportunity Fund, Business News

The nation's premier event on domestic Microfinance - Microfinance USA - opens here in San Francisco on May 20th. I have the privilege to speak on a ...

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Financial Reform: What Crawls Out of the Petri Dish?

Norb Vonnegut | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sec, Wall Street, Financial Reform, Capital Markets, Business News

When no one knows what will crawl out of the regulatory petri dish, it makes more sense to focus on a core issue, like getting our exchanges right, before financial reform on multiple fronts.

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We Don't Need a New Version of the Glass-Steagall Act

Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Securitization, Credit Derivatives, Capital Markets, Equity Positions, Derivatives, Restructuring, Fixed Income, Federal Reserve, Banking Sector, Glass-Steagall, Business News

I tend to believe that the Glass-Steagall approach, an institutional way to address the question, overlooks the importance of a market response.

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Economist Jared Bernstein Crunches The Candidates

JB Powell | Posted 05.25.2011

The current economic meltdown can be traced to McCain's financial adviser. McCain wants to further deregulate capital markets and cut taxes. McCain-onomics are Bush-onomics, but more so.

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