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Goldman Sachs says to sell Merrill Lynch

September 5, 2008 — 1:45pm ET | By Jim Kim
Think Merrill Lynch has put the worst of the credit crunch behind it? Goldman Sachs analysts are not convinced. They are telling clients to sell. After a recent stock run that ended last week,... Read more...

More on JPMorgan's short-term prognosis

August 14, 2008 — 8:37pm ET | By Jim Kim
People are still talking about JPMorgan's disclosure in a recent 10q that it lost about $1.5 billion due to collateralized debt obligations. A MarketWatch columnist notes that the loss occurred in... Read more...

The greatest short bets of all time

August 11, 2008 — 10:06am ET | By Jim Kim
When John Paulson, of Paulson & Co., bet against mortgage-backed collateralized debt obligations, he didn't hold back. His funds shorted the ABX and longed various credit default swaps--and it... Read more...

A look at Merrill's deal on CDSs

August 10, 2008 — 9:16am ET | By Jim Kim
We've heard a lot about how Merrill Lynch's deal with Lone Star valued its collateralized debt obligations at 22 cents on the dollar--and the implications that it might have for Citigroup and others... Read more...

John Thain strikes back

August 5, 2008 — 8:19am ET | By Jim Kim
Merrill Lynch CEO is feeling some heat right. The latest source of controversy: his decision to sell Merrill Lynch's portfolio of collateralized debt obligations at 22 cents on the dollar. That has... Read more...

Commercial mortagage-backed products faring better?

August 4, 2008 — 5:07pm ET | By Jim Kim
As the residential mortgage-backed market fiasco continues to unwind, there has been a lot of fear that the commercial market would come under similar pressure soon. For now, commercial... Read more...

Anatomy of a good deal

July 30, 2008 — 7:52am ET | By Jim Kim
Lone Star Fund's John Grayken is no stranger to troubled assets, notes the New York Times. He made a fortune buying troubled mortgages from the Resolution Trust Corporation in the early 1990s. In... Read more...

The case for CDOs

June 3, 2008 — 7:24pm ET | By Jim Kim

Collateralized debt obligations have become the scourge of the financial markets. And for good reason. But are they so thoroughly discredited that they will simply disappear into some musuem of

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