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US Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen announced last week the successful completion of a second cut on a fractured pipe connected to the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico that has spewed forth oil for six weeks now and has become the largest oil spill surpassing the Exxon Valdez incident.
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On March 1, 2010 after many months of work, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and the International Islamic Financial Market jointly issued the first Shari'ah-compliant master agreement for over-the-counter derivatives. Named the "ISDA / IIFM Ta'Hawwut Master Agreement," it provides a framework for the expansion of derivatives activity in the Middle East, South Asia and many regions throughout the world where hedging is not standard practice. Part I focused on derivative transactions within Shari'ah-compliant finance principles, and in Part II, we look at some of the differences between the Ta'Hawwut Agreement and the 2002 Master Agreement.
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The first round of bidding on the Ambac Assurance Corp. auction landed at 27.5 this morning, according to a Web site jointly run by Markit Partners and Creditex. This means protection sellers will likely have to pay out around USD0.725 on the dollar for credit default swaps sold on the holding company that triggered the CDS in March.
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Daiwa Capital Markets is reportedly out front in the running to purchase KBC Financial Products’ warrants and global convertible bond business after Mizuho Securities Asia pulled out of the race last month, say people with knowledge of the matter.
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Buysiders and market makers are getting more active in derivatives on renewable energy certificates, tradable notes representing one megawatt-hour of renewable electricity. Forwards and swaps are the main instruments and there is a quickly-growing secondary market.
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Credit Suisse is marketing three-year notes for institutional investors who are bearish on the long-term prospects of the U.S. dollar. The notes are linked to an equally weighted basket of BRIC currencies comprising the Brazilian real, the Russian ruble, the Indian rupee and the Chinese yuan.