UBS today announced that it was writing down its sub-prime holdings by a further US$ 10 billion. This brings the total write-down in UBS’s sub-prime holdings to about US$ 13.5 billion making it the biggest loser from the sub-prime crisis. The Swiss banking giant however, managed to raise CHF 13 billion (about US$ 11.5 billion) [...]
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The Basics of Investing:Commodities and Commodity Exchanges
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Commodities and Commodity Exchanges
Firstly, let us start off by understanding what commodities are. Commodities are, well commodities – Anything that can be bought and sold relatively easily, something that can physically be moved or stored. In the financial world, it could mean something as simple as gold,silver,oil,timber,sugar,wheat,cotton etc. It could also mean something as complex [...]
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The Basics of Investment Banking: Corporate Credit Products and Interest Rates
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Before we go on to explore Interest rate swaps, let us get a rough idea of the playing field. Think for a moment that Intel is setting up a bunch of fabrication plants and research labs in China and needs a 1 billion US$ loanfor that purpose. Let us say that it approaches Citibank and [...]
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The Basics of Investment Banking : Interest Rate Swaps
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Moving on to a different example, suppose that Halliburton owes $ 1 billion to a syndicate of banks led by ABN Amro and that the principal amount is repayable after 5 years.Now, assume that the interest is payable annually and the rate is pegged at the 12 month LIBOR + 100 bases points. Suppose the [...]
