Category Archives: Derivatives

Walls street banks and derivative ban proposed

April 24, 2010 – 12:20 pm

Senate aides inched closer Friday to combining separate bills that would establish oversight of the vast market for derivatives, an effort central to the ongoing push to revamp the nation’s financial regulations.

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Derivatives have no value of their own

April 24, 2010 – 7:52 am

Derivatives are invented securities such as futures contracts, collateralized debt obligations, and credit-default swaps that are related to real assets or events but have no inherent value of their own.

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Derivatives loopholes are a clear and present danger

November 14, 2008 – 11:39 am

This is a classic case of too little too late from the U.S. government. For a problem that was a clear and present danger to the United States years ago, the Bush administration took action Friday (November 14, 2008) to strengthen government oversight of derivatives trading and close the loopholes that have allowed these complex [...]

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