Word: defaulting
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...have taken on greater urgency, since it turns out that AIG has become the banking industry's ATM, essentially passing along $52 billion of TARP money to an array of U.S. and foreign financial institutions - from Goldman Sachs to Switzerland's UBS. Those firms were counterparties to the credit-default swaps (CDSs) that AIG FP sold at least through 2005, and the companies were collecting on the insurance-like derivatives. AIG paid out an additional $43.7 billion to many of the same banks, which were also customers of the securities-lending operation run out of AIG's insurance division...
...handle massive portfolios of business, real estate, and consumer loans - especially credit cards. That fact seems to have been lost on investors buying bank stocks during the last week. Most money center banks have substantial exposure to debt in Eastern Europe. A lot of that debt may go into default if the economies of the small countries in that region fall apart. They do not have institutions like the Federal Reserve to flood their countries with liquidity. (Find out 10 things to do with your money...
...students see an opportunity here, much to their credit, to re–double their efforts–to start companies or join startups where just a year ago they would primarily have joined multinationals firms almost by default,” he said...
...Rating: AAA*. Quincy’s default risk is as close to zero as any house. No matter what your persuasion, Quincy will satisfy. So if you get The People's House, just imagine all the people ...who wish they'd blocked with...
Moreover, investors and banks that hold credit-default swaps do not necessarily own the tranches of mortgages and bonds that the CDSs insure. AIG may have even written multiple swaps over the same mortgages and bonds. It would be as if an insurance company had sold earthquake insurance on one house to multiple investors. When the house falls, so does...