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...mortgage-backed bonds, securitized from pieces of mortgages. As such, they can contain varying qualities of mortgages, despite tranches—or divisions of CDOs—that are intended to rank based on risk. Rating agencies are also to blame, because they facilitate the bank’s sale of securities to institutional investors. Many funds are restricted to buying only the highest quality securities with a AAA rating. This motivates the banks to seek these AAA ratings for their CDOs from a rating agency...
...effects of globalization are already visible everywhere in the English Premiership. The majority of the players in England's top flight are no longer English, but foreign stars lured there by the piles of cash accumulated from the lucrative sale of TV rights - networks covering more than 200 countries paid $1.23 billion to air Premiership games over the three seasons starting last fall. And eight of the 20 teams in the league are now owned by foreigners looking to cash in on the marketing potential of what are now global brands...
...There may be an even simpler explanation for the new squeeze on Ukraine, however. "Gazprom is running out of gas reserves," maintains Mikhail Krutikhin, partner and top analysts with RusEnergy, a respected fuel realm Moscow-based analytic service. He notes that the company did not offer any supplies for sale on the most recent auction in Russia's small domestic commercial market, and explains that during its 15-year existence, Gazprom has commissioned just one new field, while rapidly depleted Soviet-era fields...
Asked whether he would back a federal ban on smoking in the workplace or public spaces, Bloomberg said he would, but added, "I don't think the federal government should prohibit the manufacture or sale of cigarettes," but that combatting tobacco should mean diminishing the demand...
...terms of both its stock price and the amount of money Yahoo! is expected to generate. The worse news is, you're not very good at the online-advertising game and you aren't buying anybody who is. Google figured out how to make more money per ad sale, on its own site and others, than either Microsoft or Yahoo! Online advertising is about size and smarts, and you've got only one. Google has both...