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Business Buzzwords: Credit-derivative Trades

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Fourteen high profile Wall Street investment banks, including a former Federal Reserve regional board member, have gathered in New York to tackle the growing monster of unmatched credit-derivative trades, so Wall Street might ultimately fix this derivatives time-bomb before it explodes.

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The company recorded a provision for risk of (34.7) million euros, mainly generated by the discontinuation of production at the Bernin site and focus of the optical business on foundry services, the badwill resulting from acquisitions, a litigation with one customer and employee severance costs.

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The bear call spread can be seen as writing a call with protection against an unexpected rise in the market; in this instance, the trader may write a call around the money, and take a call out-of-the-money, which effectively provides a ceiling to the potential loss if the market should rise.

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In a Mortgage Dollar Roll transaction, the investor sells the securities that he was to receive from the dealer in the front month for one price and buys the same securities from the dealer at a lower price for settlement in the next month: the difference between the two prices is known as the drop.

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