“The Canadian currency is considered a commodity currency. When commodities prices are up, investors tend to have exposure to the currency.”
Michael Gregory
“I'm not sure you can even begin to put a price on that kind of exposure for the region. When you've got a professional sporting event televised in your area over two days, everyone benefits -- not just Greensboro.”
Bobby Long
“CMBX has been designed to provide investors with an efficient means to gain diversified exposure to the U.S. CMBS market. The standardized nature of the index, coupled with the fact that trades can be confirmed through DTCC, will pave the way for a liquid and operationally efficient market.”
Kevin Gould
“So investors prefer to trim their exposure to equities a bit and wait and see.”
Alex Tang
“We're still left with an inability to underwrite and price for the exposure - due to largely insufficient data.”
Kim Prather
“When you've got a storm moving up coast, hitting state after state, you could definitely have exposure greater than or equal to hitting one specific area with a battering ram. You'd have flood after flood after flood.”
John Eager
“The downgrade reflects our concerns about Wolverine's exposure to rapidly rising copper prices, which have risen by about 50 cents per pound since the end of the third quarter of 2005 and about 20 cents per pound in January 2006 alone. We expect that higher copper prices would result in a continued drain of Wolverine's liquidity and that Wolverine's credit metrics will remain very poor over the near term as the company continues to face high copper prices.”
Lisa Wright
