derivatives

As current events make crystal clear, derivatives -- whose main purpose is to hedge risk for specified parties -- not only undermine a nation's real economy but they also undermine global financial stability.

Groupe Caisse d’Épargne said that it had incurred the losses as a result of unauthorized derivatives trading by a team on the bank’s own account.

The deregulation and use of derivatives long had a great supporter in the person of Alan Greenspan.

Has it all become a giant Ponzi scheme, with the U.S.

Schaeffler has won control of a larger rival, Continental, using an unusual derivatives transaction that analysts said could leave other German firms vulnerable to similar raids.

The bond insurer said that quarterly net income rose to $1.7 billion on gains on derivatives, but said that business had suffered from downgrades by Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s.

Warren Buffet's timeless quote, "Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction" is such a proper way of putting it.

I never get tired of hearing it. But I do get nervous when I read about them in the paper. So does the Mogambo...read more about it.

"Is it better to let Bear Stearns fail and risk setting off a market collapse that costs a million jobs?" The answer, of course, is no.

Bear had about $13 trillion of derivatives deals with counterparties, according to its most recent financial filings.

The bailout of Bear Sterns delayed a catastrophe...but it may not have prevented it. The complex web of derivatives that are managed and owned by many key players make any possible failures suicidal for the entire financial system.

Its the End of Beginning for Closed-End Fund Holders; Lawsuit Includes Mississippi, Chicago, and Fairfax County VA, with 37 Financial Service Firms Being Sued for Alleging Price-Fixing and Bid-Rigging in Municipal Derivatives via ClipSyndicate