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...very sophisticated investors have lost a lot of money in this market. What is the ordinary investor supposed...
...used to be that if we got an allocation of tax credits, say a million dollars, we could actually get out of the investor about $900,000,” said CHA Director of Planning and Development Terry Dumas. “Now we probably get 780,000, so we’ve lost almost 14 percent of the power of the tax credit program...
...federal-funds target rate were cut to 0.75%, many money-market funds that invest exclusively in government debt would struggle to cover their costs and still pay a positive return to investors. The Fed has a new facility in the works, the Money Market Investor Funding Facility, that's intended to ease these pressures. Once that's up and running, don't be surprised if short-term interest rates keep dropping, even to 0% - as was the case in Japan from 1999 to 2006. The Fed would literally be giving money away...
...home while contemplating some catastrophic losses in the market, while the iconic Porsche logo on their steering wheel stares back at them. That's because the venerated Stuttgart sports-car manufacturer on Monday inflicted losses estimated to be as high as $38 billion on hedge funds, banks and other investors who had been short-selling Volkswagen stock. It was more than just patriotic fervor that got Germans cheering this week when shares in VW shot up to more than $1,276, making it, for a few minutes on Tuesday, the most valuable company in the world. It was plenty...
...volume of Western Union telegrams traveling across the country tripled. The ticker tape ran so far behind the actual transactions that some traders simply let it run out. Trades happened so quickly that although people knew they were losing money, they didn't know how much. Rumors of investors jumping out of buildings spread through Wall Street; although they weren't true, they drove the prices down further. Brokers called in margins; if stockholders couldn't pay up, their stocks were sold, wiping out many an investor's life savings in an instant. So many trades were made - each recorded...