Interesting study from Stanford GSB about how the introduction of weather derivatives allowed for testing the value of hedging for energy companies, utilities, and other weather-sensitive businesses. If your business or its intrinsic value benefit from certainty of cash flows, energy costs, currency rates, or rain fall, maybe hedging is Read more…
Calling all econ/financial nerds: Pretty good app just released from the US Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis that highlights many current data points and has a calendar for upcoming data announcements. Also available for Android devices. (WSJ Blog)
Calling all econ/financial nerds: Pretty good app just released from the US Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis that highlights many current data points and has a calendar for upcoming data announcements. Also available for Android devices. (WSJ Blog)
While 16 banks submit daily offers for the various tenors of the London Interbank Offered Rates (LIBORs), and the top four and bottom four get thrown out before the remaining eight are averaged, Barclays admitted to attempting to “benefit Barclays’ trading poisitons” by submitting artificially low rates from 2007 to Read more…
Amazing op-ed from resigning Goldman Sachs derivatives director Greg Smith, discussing how the firm’s culture became more about taking advantage of clients as opposed to serving their best interests. Unlike derivatives desks across the spectrum, we have no “axes” to grind here, we don’t hunt elephants, and we don’t advise Read more…