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A disconcerting number of Chinese corporate-governance failures have surfaced since the financial crisis — Sino-Environment, Beauty China, Oriental Century, Canton Properties and Fibrechem Technologies are just a few examples in the past year. It’s starting to add up to a trend. Consider the similarities: The scandals have centered on high-growth mainland Chinese companies listed in [...]

In a decade, BRIC has been transformed from a marketing term to an investment craze to a political bloc. Around 2001, Goldman Sachs created the acronym for Brazil, Russia, India and China, nations with rapidly growing economic output. Investors rushed. Shares soared. Packaged products followed. In December 2005, a BRIC index was launched, which allowed [...]

美国医疗改革终于立法，而且与大众认为的其效果要经过多年才会显现的想法相反，这项立法马上就产生了巨大的影响：共和党一蹶不振，民主党则犹如穿上了防弹背心。 华尔街对医改法案通过的反响相当不错，股市冲上18个月新高。引发这一兴奋反应的原因在于，人们发现这项措施为非理性繁荣提供了全面的保护。 中国宣布，虽然3月份的经济反弹已是无可辩驳的事实，但中国却呈现出令人迷惑的相反情形，进口额六年来首次超过出口额。只有极度顽固不化的愤世嫉俗者才会抱怨说，中国的相关数据弹性极大，并会断定在美国政府就重估人民币币值加大向北京方面施压之时，中国刚好出现贸易逆差，这显得很可疑。

Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets, Third Edition (Quantitative Finance) By Stephen Satchell, John Knight Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Number Of Pages: 432 Publication Date: 2007-04-06 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 075066942X ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780750669429 Product Description: This new edition of Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets assumes that the reader has a firm grounding in the key [...]

Data-Based Video Manipulation. How fall of stocks changes expression. Experiment in visualizing data the josef ackermann statement is pitched in relation to the share price value of deutsche bank. Build with processing, data is read from a share price chart image taken from the web.

Regulation of financial and securities markets is intended to protect investors while still enabling them to make personal investment decisions. Psychological phenomena, such as magical thinking, overconfidence, and representativeness heuristic can cause deviations from rational behavior and distort financial decision-making. However, regulation and regulatory bodies, such as the SEC, FDIC, and SIPC, most of which [...]

Introduction to collateralized debt obligations (to be listen to after series on mortgage-backed securities). Does the bailout have a chance of working? Credit Default Swaps Credit Default Swaps 2

Part I of the introduction to mortgage-backed securities Part II of the introduction to mortgage-backed securities More on mortgage-backed securities

This is one of 14 different videos if you have a home, thinking of buying a home or had a home and is now wondering why your living in a box. this is a good explanation of whats going on. When I’ve tired to read books on the subject I just get all con-foozed. because [...]

Citation: G, Cardiff, The 10 books to help you understand the crisis, Jun 2009, Available at: http://tinyurl.com/qsfdoz, Accessed 11 March 2010 Not surprisingly, the number of books about the causes and consequences of the financial crisis has proliferated in recent months. To help our readers keep up, Financial News has compiled the following list of 10 finance [...]