It’s not clear regulators are taking their own worst-case scenarios list seriously.
See the original post: What will cause the next financial crisis? Don’t ask regulators.
It’s impossible to time a stock market crash, but the chances that ‘something’ bad will happen should always be on investors’ minds. Here are four wild, yet plausible, blowup scenarios.
See the article here: 4 ways the market could really surprise you
It’s impossible to time a stock market crash, but the chances that ‘something’ bad will happen should always be on investors’ minds. Here are four wild, yet plausible, blowup scenarios.
Read more: 4 ways the market could really surprise you
Category : Stocks
The Federal Reserve released the details of three economic scenarios it will use to judge the health of the nation’s largest lenders.
See the original post: Fed details new round of stress tests
Nouriel Roubini gives an audience no shortage of scenarios to keep them up at night, but his number one worry right now is the looming threat of Iran building nuclear weapons.
Go here to read the rest: Roubini: Iran is the greatest looming threat
Category : Stocks
This column originally appeared on Real Money Pro at 7:41 a.m. EDT on April 10.
NEW YORK (Real Money) — I am fine-tuning my S&P 500 fair market value calculation.
As a reminder, my starting point in determining exposure is valuation: My fair market value calculation is based on four different economic scenarios and assigning probabilities to each result.
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Link: A Fair Market Value Update
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Don’t look now, but the smart folks who made a boatload of cash by shorting your house in 2006 are now going long mortgage debt. They say some mortgage bonds are so cheap that they can make money even in worst-case scenarios. 
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