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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: saveslivesbyday who wrote (77589)11/19/2007 3:18:21 PM
From: lifeisgood  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 94695
 
"JPM is not doing as bad as CITI"

They're just not in the headlines yet.

I read somewhere they have 50 trillion in derivatives value,
something like 30x their total assets.

More like 30,000 times their assets (book value around $37).

best...

LIG



To: saveslivesbyday who wrote (77589)11/19/2007 3:19:27 PM
From: Real Man  Respond to of 94695
 
The majority of OTC derivatives are held between the large
banks. These are offsetting positions, so there should be
huge winners who can't collect and insolvent losers -g-


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