Topics: SIFMA/LIBOR ratios, SIFMA/LIBOR, tax risk
The Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures (CUSIP®) came up with its alphanumeric protocol in the late 1960s to streamline the dizzying amount of paperwork piling up in the back offices of securities dealers. Despite a few changes since then, the same technology is used today.
Topics: business process, debt profiling, cusip
Topics: financial analysis, financial forecasting
"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." - Woody Allen
Topics: public finance, SIFMA/LIBOR ratios, SIFMA/LIBOR, variable rate
Topics: financial analysis, SIFMA/LIBOR, variable rate, monte carlo
“An Expert is a person who avoids small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.” - Steven Weinberg
Topics: public finance, municipal default, credit
As people soak in the joy (or tragedy depending on your perspective) of the latest apparent tax deal extending current marginal tax rates for a few more years, thought we'd check in and see what the money markets have to say about future tax rates. Many people may not know that swap markets provide a way to assess the almighty market's view of future marginal tax rates. Indeed they do and currently show a near zero value to future tax-exemption.
Topics: SIFMA/LIBOR ratios, future tax rates
