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Tag Archives: Insurance
Probability of default — [EUROPE MAP]
Posted in Finance, Financial Markets, Hedging & Insurance, The Global Economy
Tagged CDSs, credit, credit default swaps, debt, default probabilities, default probability, E.U., economy, Europe, Europe's default risk, European economy, European Union, Finance, Financial Markets, Hedging, Insurance, public debt, risk of sovereign default, world economy
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Too Big To Fail — [VIDEO]
Posted in Finance, Financial Markets, The Global Economy
Tagged Andrew Ross Sorkin, Andrew Schiff, bailouts, banking, banking system, banks, Business, democracy, economy, Finance, Financial Markets, global econony, growth, inflation, Insurance, Jim Rogers, oligarchy, plutocracy, recession, riches, US banking system, US banks, US economy, wealth
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Is weather betting legal if you bundle it with auto leasing?
Pride Motors, a Boston area car dealer, is advertising the following special: Lease a car before August 26, and if it’s above 96 degrees at Boston Logan Airport on Labor Day, they will make your first 12 lease payments for … Continue reading
Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Betting, Economics, Gambling, Regulations
Tagged Betting, Eric Zitzewitz, Gambling, Insurance, Jordan Furniture, laws, Pride Motors, Regulations, WeatherBill
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Robert Shiller: Insurance, hedging, risk management, efficiency, etc.
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Posted in Economics
Tagged castatrophe bonds, Economics, efficiency, Financial Markets, Hedging, Insurance, markets, Robert Shiller, volatility
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WeatherBill C.E.O. David Friedberg hopes to persuade [!?] the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (C.F.T.C.) to change the requirement that currently limits weather derivative traders to accredited investors with a minimum net worth of $1 million.
Hummmmmmmmm… Quite a bold ambition. I’m very surprised by his statement. Is he naive? Via our chief economist Michael Giberson. UPDATE: Did the CFTC relax its ECPs requirement for eBOTs?
RAND CORPORATION, the world’s most prestigious think tank, is a NewsFutures client.
NewsFutures’ clients: The world’s largest steel maker. CORNING Display Technologies. Japan’s largest advertising firm. Voted “most innovative” pharmaceutical company in Fortune‘s 2003 and 2004 rankings. The US packaged foods giant. Giant U.S. Pharmaceutical. Leading provider of objective analysis and effective … Continue reading
Posted in Consulting, Exchanges & Markets
Tagged advertising, artificial intelligence, computing, crisis management, Delphi, Display Technologies, electronics, energy, Europe, Germany, Germany's global powerhouse, Giant U.S. Pharmaceutical, health insurance, health services, Insurance, internet brand, Japan, leader, NewsFutures, objective analysis and effective solutions, pharmaceutical, prediction markets, RAND CORPORATION, space systems, steel maker, technology applications, Texas Department of Transportation, then-U.S. Department of Health, United States, ZAR
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What does the TradeSports/InTrade “split” really amount to?
TradeSports has been incorporated as a separate company in the Netherlands Antilles, while Intrade remains incorporated in Ireland, and they have split up the trading categories across the two websites. However, this looks sort of like a BetCRIS/BookMaker split, with … Continue reading
Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Analysis (Industry), Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Regulations
Tagged 866-303-1927, 866-303-1929, Acting Exchange Manager, Beckett Way
Parkwest Business Park, Brian Keating, Carl Wolfenden, CEO, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, chief technology officer, Ed Lenox, exchange manager, exchange products, Exempt Board of Trade, Insurance, InTrade, Ireland, John Delaney, Manager - Compliance, Matt Bonner, Mike Knesevich, Netherlands Antilles, prediction markets, Seamus Rohan, Sinead Kelliher, The Netherlands Antilles, Trade Exchange Network Limited
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Numeria CEO dislikes TradeSports’s real-money prediction markets. – REDUX
On the North Korea Missile scandal, Numeria CEO Peter Leitner wrote: The debate has been passionate on both sides, with some asserting that TradeSports is cheating its members by ignoring the obvious, and failing to acknowledge that a small operating … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry)
Tagged CEO, Insurance, Numeria, Numeria CEO, online gaming, Peter Leitner, public relations crisis
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