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...Costco operates under this simple principle: the more, the better. So if you're looking to stock up on food for the looming exam season, you can buy bulk through Market...
...swaps, and that market for bond insurance has been battered by the rising defaults in home loans and other debts. Worse, some politicians and regulators, irked by the huge losses rung up by AIG in CDS contracts, have talked about creating a central exchange, much like the New York Stock Exchange, where the bond insurance would trade. Some have proposed doing away with CDS all together. Those changes would significantly curtail, or wipe out, Cantor's profits in its CDS business. What's more, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has subpoenaed Cantor and other traders of CDS contracts...
...with an eye toward building out its high-yield-debt sales and trading business. Other areas Cantor is looking to for expansion include the business of offering advice to troubled companies on how to refinance their debt. The firm is also hoping to break into the business of underwriting stock and bond offerings. "I am very happy I made the move to Cantor," says Teevan. "This place has been rebuilt and it is thriving...
...went up in the quarter as investors fretted about Citi's solvency, so Citi was able to book $2.5 billion in gains. Got that? Without that boost, Citi's $1.6 billion in quarterly profit would have been more than wiped out. As it was, holders of Citi's common stock still had to take a $966 million loss because of accounting adjustments related to the planned conversion of preferred shares owned by the U.S. government and other investors into common stock. Again, got that...
...would be unwise to put much stock in the shifts in polls less than two years into a five-year, reform-focused term - especially when you add in a nightmarish global recession few people expected. Still, Chirac must secretly be enjoying the moment. After his own 12 year presidency limped to an end with approval ratings at times dipping below the 20% mark, Chirac was left to watch his one-time protégé-turned-rival take over the Elysée and thrill a mesmerized French public. Where Chirac's leadership was criticized as plodding, unfocused, and ready...