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Stories catching our attention. Bringing those stories to yours. Throughout the week, conversations between Benzinga correspondents and other leading thinkers in finance, economics, and politics get to the heart of real issues we face right now, uncovering the details of news reports and cover stories that are otherwise often overlooked.
Typhon Capital's Koutoulas on the latest from the center of the MF Global case
Typhon Capital Management CEO and attorney James Koutoulas is leading the Commodity Customer Coalition to recover customer funds from the MF Global unwinding.
Feb 24, 2012
26 min
Bloomberg's Yueh on "The Economy of China"
Bloomberg TV economics editor Dr. Linda Yueh discusses common misconceptions about and the major risks with regard to the elusive Chinese economy.
Feb 10, 2012
21 min
PRIME chairman Golden on international financial law, Greek debt talks, regulatory headwinds for derivatives
Professor at the London School of economics, director at MFX Solutions, derivatives lawyer, and chairman of PRIME Finance Jeffrey Golden discusses the new expert panel for resolving complex international financial disputes and weighs in on the discussions surrounding the Greek debt swap talks with creditors.
Jan 31, 2012
19 min
Citi's Wieting on US GDP, economic data, FOMC announcement
Citi managing director Steven Wieting discusses Friday's GDP announcement and the Fed's decision to keep rates on hold until late 2014.
Jan 27, 2012
21 min
Morning Macro Research Wrap 2012-01-26
Soc Gen discusses the euro short, Morgan Stanley bemoans lack of exchange volume as secular, Citi shows three trading scenarios surrounding Greek debt negotiations, and BAML shows the relationship between correlations in sovereign and corporate credit spreads conditional on different rate environments.
Jan 26, 2012
12 min
Trillium's Kron on water risk to corporate supply chains
Trillium Asset Management VP Jonas Kron describes the risks Trillium is identifying in companies heavily reliant on agricultural imputs, specifically hydrologic risks with sweeping long-term impacts.
Jan 17, 2012
16 min
NYU Stern's Altman on eurozone private sector health
NYU Stern finance professor Dr. Edward Altman developed the widely-used Altman Z-score, which was initially designed to estimate the probability of a firm defaulting. Recently, he has reworked his metrics to apply them toward analyzing sovereign risk.
Nov 23, 2011
34 min
Typhon Capital's Koutoulas on the battle to recover missing client funds at MF Global
Typhon Capital Management CEO and attorney James Koutoulas is leading the Commodity Customer Coalition to prevent JP Morgan from getting a lien on MF Global's bankruptcy assets that could take precedent over the return of client funds, which are suspected to have been commingled with MF Global's own money.
Nov 18, 2011
17 min
BoomBustBlog's Middleton on the Eurocalypse
BoomBustBlog author and entrepreneurial investor Reggie Middleton on the eurozone: "In order for any economic progress to be made, the debt needs to be destroyed."
Nov 17, 2011
20 min
Trinity College Dublin's Gurdgiev on European bank deleveraging
Trinity College Dublin Professor of Finance and St. Columbanus AG Head of Research Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev discusses what deleveraging will look like from the perspective of the markets for securitized loan products as well as the developed-market and emerging-market economies interlinked with the eurozone banking system.
Nov 17, 2011
21 min
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