MaxedOutMama
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
PS: Your SIV Is Working Like A Sieve
To set the tone, a rather good WaPo article on the Great SIV Caper.
Remember everyone talking about "panic" and "hysteria" back in August? The assets were fine, we were told by the financial cowboys. It's just that a surge of irrationality has hit the investor herd (somebody flapped an umbrella or something), and when they all calm down everything will be fine again.
Not exactly Prozac for the investing masses:
Remember everyone talking about "panic" and "hysteria" back in August? The assets were fine, we were told by the financial cowboys. It's just that a surge of irrationality has hit the investor herd (somebody flapped an umbrella or something), and when they all calm down everything will be fine again.
Not exactly Prozac for the investing masses:
Cheyne Finance Plc, the structured investment vehicle managed by hedge fund Cheyne Capital Management Ltd., may not be able to pay its debts, receiver Deloitte & Touche LLP said today.Next up, Shiva makes an appearance in SIV form. This is not the third event, but it moves us closer to the brink. There's a surge of commercial construction loan defaults beginning, and it is going to be very hard to get savvy investors back in the ABCP corral without guarantees of performance. Super SIV ain't gonna do it.
The receiver declared an ``insolvency event,'' it said today in an e-mailed statement.
