As long-term readers of Wall Street On Parade know well, we have regularly warned that the failure of Congress to meaningfully reform Wall Street by restoring the Glass-Steagall Act poses a national security threat to our nation in times of crisis…
Banks Sink – Throwing More Cold Water on All That Talk that Megabanks Are a Great Investment…
There are apparently stock-picking analysts across Wall Street pumping out buy recommendations on stocks to the public who have never cast their eyes on those chilling derivative charts published quarterly by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency…
Rehypothecated Leverage: How Archegos Built a $100 Billion Portfolio Out of Thin Air… And Then Blew Up…
One week after the biggest, and most spectacular hedge fund collapse since LTCM, we now have an (almost) clear picture of how Bill Hwang’s Archegos family office managed to single-handedly make a boring media stock the best performing company of 2021, but then when its luck suddenly ended it was margin called into extinction, leading to billions in losses for the banks that enabled what Bloomberg has dubbed its “leveraged blowout.”…
Morgan Stanley Has Been Strangely Quiet On Its Exposure to Archegos Capital, the Hedge Fund That Blew Up Last Week. Here’s Why….
On March 9 Morgan Stanley announced that it had been “recognized for industry-leading risk management technology.” Three weeks later it has landed in the middle of one of the biggest hedge fund blowups since the financial crisis of 2008, raising serious questions about how it manages risk…