Monday 10 November 2008

Letting Lehman Fall | ForexGen News


The government’s decision to let Lehman go marked a turning point in the way investors assess risk. When the Fed stepped in to engineer the takeover of Bear Stearns by J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in March, Bear’s shareholders lost most of their investments, but bondholders came out well. In the financial hierarchy of risk, this wasn’t surprising, since bondholders have more contractual rights to get their money back than equity holders. But it created a false impression among investors that the government would step in to rescue bondholders when the next bank ran into trouble. By letting Lehman fail, the government had suddenly disabused the market of that notion.

The reaction was most evident in the massive credit-default-swap market, where the cost of insurance against bond defaults shot up Monday in its largest one-day rise ever. In the U.S., the average cost of five-year insurance on $10 million in debt rose to $194,000 from $152,000 Friday, according to the Markit CDX index.

During this time, it was a fact that any currency pair contains USD whether as a base or counter currency was suffering fluctuation because of the bad conditions the dollar passing by. However, as ForexGen has the greatest providers and financial advisers, ForexGen was providing all clients with the best solution. ForexGen provided its clients with the best timeframe to trade their pairs. And because ForexGen cares for the benefit of its clients and because ForexGen seeks the general profit of all, ForexGen experts were making their studies and updating for it to help ForexGen sending the right time for ForexGen clients to perform their trading activity successfully without the loss of either ForexGen or the clients. And so, the majority of ForexGen clients avoided loss and great fluctuations happened at that time.

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