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...there is the beginning of an attempt to do so. Over the years, the judgment of ratings agencies has become enshrined in countless laws and private contracts; ratings are a key yardstick in how state and federal regulators determine the safety of banks, insurance companies, money-market mutual funds and other parts of the financial system. Over the summer, the SEC proposed some rules that would start the reform movement at home, undoing the agency's own dependence on the ratings agencies. (Read "A Brief History Of: Ratings Agencies...
...pictures of the stock-market crash...
...risk the firm used to take on a daily basis at the beginning of the decade. And that may even be understating the amount of risk Goldman is really taking on. Hendler says Goldman computes its VAR by looking at what the firm could lose in relatively normal market conditions. Factor in today's wild market swings and Hendler figures that based on Goldman's recent exposure, the firm could lose as much as $340 million on a really...
...Market Watch: Engaged to James Foreman (Harvard College '04) (FlyBy apologizes to all of the hearts that just shattered...
...Market Watch: Married to Grace Jones Byrd (Also a Resident Tutor in Dunster House...