Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Even with the little setbacks we’ve had in the last week or so, I still believe we are in the first phase of an ...
Simply sign up to the Davos myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As news of a possible bail-out of the monoline industry trickled out on Wednesday night, one senior investment banker in ...
Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Andy Smith is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), licensed realtor and educator with over ...
AS AMERICA's subprime-mortgage tempest spreads, Wall Street's latest parlour game is to bet on who will be next to get caught in the storm. A fair few have placed their chips on the so-called monoline ...
The credit markets must be getting tired of watching the unthinkable happen. But when Fitch Ratings finally downgraded monoline insurer Ambac on January 18 it sent shock waves through the market that ...