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« Agosto 2007 | Main | Octubre 2007 » Septiembre 21, 2007 Beginning of this year there were two main disequilibrium challenging the international financial stability: one was the US current account deficit and the second one was the growth of credit derivatives. From April this year, we started seeing the dangers of the former that exploded during August in the form of the mortgage sub prime crisis. The sub prime crisis is just a focal point in a wider problem, the growth of unregulated credit derivatives. Credit derivatives had been praised buy many (among them Alan Grenspan) and it truly has its virtues if credit risk is really diversified. But what we have seen recently is that this diversification has not worked out effectively and most of the credit risk is turning back into the books of their initial originators, the banks. Central Banks are trying to weather the storm, either through smoothing the reassessment of risk taking place (through liquidity injections) or by altering their long-term policy views and lowering the reference rates (as it has happened in the US). Once the turmoil is over, government and Central Banks should turn their eyes to the true root of the problem: the lack of regulation and information on credit derivative origination. Septiembre 20, 2007 Los warrants funcionan en esencia de la misma forma que las “opciones”, por ello existen dos tipos fundamentalmente de warrants: Warrants call y Warrants put. Continue reading 'ESTRATEGIAS CON WARRANTS (I)' Septiembre 13, 2007 ¿De qué manera lo educaron a usted? ¿Debía tomar notas de las clases dictadas, memorizarlas y presentar exámenes? ¿Sus profesores rara vez entregaban un programa del curso, clase por clase? ¿Tenía usted que leer o estudiar antes de cada clase, o era un estudiante pasivo? El modelo educativo tradicional, centrado en el que enseña y no en el que aprende, es hoy el más común en España y latinoamérica, pero está muy controvertido en el mundo. En este sentido, el proceso de Bolonia implica un nuevo modelo educativo basado en el trabajo del estudiante y no en las horas de clase, centrado en el aprendizaje de los estudiantes y no en la docencia de los profesores. Continue reading 'Libro de casos practicos' Septiembre 12, 2007 En la última semana los bancos centrales de las principales economías han revisado sus políticas, recurriendo a un conjunto de instrumentos alternativos para aliviar las tensiones en los mercados monetarios. El Jueves pasado el Banco Central Europeo aplazaba la subida de tipos de interés, a pesar de considerarla necesaria, porque la resolución de las tensiones en los mercados monetarios constituye un requisito indispensable para la instrumentación de su política económica a medio-largo plazo. También el Jueves el Banco de Inglaterra decidía no alterar los tipos de interés de referencia, y en un gesto poco común, lanzaba un comunicado señalando la necesidad de vigilar la evolución de los mercados de crédito. Continue reading 'Medidas para aliviar tensiones en los mercados monetarios' Septiembre 04, 2007 Over the weekend I read this speech by Paul Tucker of the Bank of England. It is pretty interesting and premonitory. The speech was delivered in April and addresses the two main imbalances he foresaw in the global economy at the time he delivered the speech: US current account and the increase of credit risk transfer (what he calls vehicular finance). He considers the possibility of shocks on these two fronts and reviews the policy implications. A good reading that foresaw the policy actions taken by the Fed and the ECB in mid August. Septiembre 03, 2007 Bernanke expected speech in Kansas City Fed's annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming calmed markets. Bernanke in his speech on the 31st of August was very specific on the role of the US Federal Reserve (Fed) in dealing with the sub prime rout: “the Central Bank will do what's needed to stop this month's credit market rout from wrecking the six-year expansion”. Markets interpreted the statement as a validation of the cut rates currently been discounted by the Fed’s fund futures. Though given the short history of Bernanke as Fed governor this is not guaranteed. We will have to wait till the 18th of September meeting to see how things evolve. In the meantime fresh news on credit markets might change the background. So any final decision is still uncertain even if fully priced by markets. Continue reading 'Two courses of actions for the Fed' |
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