• Cheap tail protection (updated on Monday, 11 April, 2011 - 4:34am)

     Plain vanilla puts are effective, but expensive tail insurance. You can save by adding extreme drop protection to more moderate insurance.

  • The Pirate Economy (updated on Monday, 7 March, 2011 - 3:03am)

     The Pirate Economy

  • Find all large files on a Linux machine (updated on Thursday, 3 March, 2011 - 11:07am)
    Finds all files over 20,000KB (roughly 20MB) in size and presents their names and size in a human readable format:
    find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

    snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1491

  • Ryan Kavanaugh Is Ready for His Close-Up (updated on Thursday, 3 March, 2011 - 11:04am)

    The Relativity Media chief has big hopes—and two Oscar contenders

    Ryan Kavanaugh's emergence as a rising studio mogul was on display at the Golden Globes on Jan. 16 when Christian Bale gave a shout-out to the Hollywood financier as he accepted the supporting-actor award for his role as a drug-using former boxer in The Fighter. Backstage, the bearded actor joked that he singled out Kavanaugh, one of the film's producers, because "he said if I thanked him personally he would actually pay me for my next film."
  • Strategic Puzzle Shifts in Mideast (updated on Tuesday, 22 February, 2011 - 2:51am)

     For more than two decades, the Middle East fell easily into neat strategic pieces like a puzzle: A rock-solid peace treaty tied Egypt and Jordan to Israel; stable, pro-U.S. monarchies lined the length of the Persian Gulf oil channels; autocratic governments across North Africa seemed unshakable.

  • Warrant Monitor (updated on Tuesday, 8 February, 2011 - 12:05pm)

  • S. Korea Wrap Accounts May Double, Advisory Firm Says (updated on Saturday, 5 February, 2011 - 12:03am)

    Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Individually tailored equity portfolios may double in South Korea this year as investors shift cash from index-tracking mutual funds, advisory firm Korea Creative Investment said.

  • On Default Correlation: A Copula Function Approach (updated on Monday, 3 January, 2011 - 8:03am)

    This paper studies the problem of default correlation. We first introduce a random variable called “time- until-default” to denote the survival time of each defaultable entity or financial instrument, and define the default correlation between two credit risks as the correlation coefficient between their survival times. Then we argue why a copula function approach should be used to specify the joint distribution of survival times after marginal distributions of survival times are derived from market information, such as risky bond prices or asset swap spreads.

  • Dim Sum Bond Top Underwriters See Sales Doubling: China Credit (updated on Sunday, 2 January, 2011 - 10:59am)

    By Shelley Smith

    Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) -- HSBC Holdings Plc and Standard Chartered Plc, the biggest foreign underwriters of yuan bonds sold in Hong Kong, say sales will double in 2011 as demand outstrips supply and the yuan appreciates.
  • Big Gas Find Sparks a Frenzy in Israel (updated on Friday, 31 December, 2010 - 11:38am)

     By CHARLES LEVINSON And GUY CHAZAN

    TEL AVIV—Two years ago, Ratio Oil Exploration LP, an energy firm here, employed five people and was worth about half a million dollars.
    Operations in Noble Energy's Leviathan gas field, the world's biggest deepwater gas find in a decade.
    Today it sits at the center of a gas bonanza that has investors, international oil companies, Israeli politicians and even Hezbollah, Israel's sworn enemy, clamoring for a piece of the action.

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