Derivative Securities

For years, the Ravens quietly tried to make the case to the NFL that Baltimore-Washington would function best as a single television market. The current system -- in which the Redskins and Ravens have separate markets -- left some Ravens fans, in...

By Danielle Robinson NEW YORK, May 3 (IFR) - Years of badgering Apple to consider the virtues of taking on debt finally paid off for the investment banking industry last week - and for two banks in particular - when the world leader in consumer...

RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - A recovery in the housing market means the Federal Reserve should think about how to reduce its holdings of mortgage-backed securities over time in order to avoid creating another bubble in real estate, a top central...

* Benchmark Hub well under recent 21-month high * Milder weather in Northeast, weekend demand add pressure * Gas futures edge higher, after big slide on Thursday By Eileen Houlihan NEW YORK, May 3 (Reuters) - U.S. spot natural gas prices slid across...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Flagstar Bancorp Inc said Thursday it would pay $110 million to settle a lawsuit by MBIA Inc accusing the bank of misrepresenting the quality of loans underlying $1.1 billion in mortgage-backed securities. MBIA filed the lawsuit in...

May 2 (Reuters) - American Capital Agency Corp's first-quarter net profit fell about 65 percent due to a loss on the sale of agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and derivatives. The real estate investment trust's (REIT) shares were down 8 percent in...

* Benchmark Hub remains under recent 21-month high * Milder weather in Northeast, cool in Midwest, hot in West * Gas futures sink 7 percent after big inventory build * Coming Up: Baker Hughes gas drilling rig data Friday By Eileen Houlihan NEW YORK,...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Investors chasing yield in this low-rate environment are jumping into alternative vehicles. That's helping closed-end income funds stage a comeback. Such funds, which offer a fixed number of shares and are closed to new capital once...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 2 (Reuters) - Investors including Google Inc are putting $125 million into Lending Club, a service that matches people seeking loans with people willing to make them, Lending Club said. The cash is going to existing venture investors...

By Danielle Robinson NEW YORK, May 1 (IFR) - More than a quarter of the secondary trading in the US corporate bond market Wednesday was in Apple's newly-minted $17 billion issues, as investors started betting that the iPhone maker will end up trading...

* Benchmark Hub remains under recent 21-month high * Cooler weather back in Midcontinent, Texas * Heat hits the West Coast * Coming Up: EIA natgas storage data Thursday By Eileen Houlihan NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) - U.S. spot natural gas prices rose...

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) - The top U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday was poised to propose new rules for the over-the-counter derivatives business of foreign banks, saying it was offering a middle ground in a brewing...