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On Wall Street: The elephant in the room
The debate over how the GSEs will be regulated remains a long-running saga, writes Michael Mackenzie
Can credit markets pass three Cs test on lending?
There is plenty of money market and pension fund money sitting in cash, waiting to be invested somewhere, at some point
On Wall Street: Banks need to show hedge funds the money
Without leverage, hedge funds will demand better prices and the crisis will rumble on, writes Saskia Scholtes.
On Wall St: Spring’s shoots of hope face bitter wind
A US consumer in full retreat could easily eclipse recent troubles on Wall Streets, writes Michael Mackenzie
Investors notebook: The unfair rap against Wall Street
The standardized narrative on the damage done by financial innovation is slowly, and unfairly, becoming received wisdom, writes Francesco Guerrera
On Wall St: Deleveraging jolts munis toward normality
After the gold rush, municipal bond investors are welcoming a return to a more sensible state, writes Aline van Duyn
Lex: Merging the SEC and CFTC
Shares in CME Group, Chicago’s futures exchange giant, were down 4.4 per cent at one point on Monday. Investors were digesting the Treasury’s call to merge the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Lex: Wall Street regulation
Hank Paulson’s attempt to make sense of the patchwork of US financial services regulators is overdue
On Wall Street: Cleaning up the mortgage mess
A wholesale bail-out of the financial system via the taxpayer would be controversial but talk of a fiscal silver bullet to clean up the mortgage mess is gaining ground, writes Mike Mackenzie
On Wall Street: Like banks, homeowners need leeway
There are ways the US administration could provide the breathing room that borrowers so desperately need
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