Goldman Looks At European Systemic Risk, CDS Concerns

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Mark Melin
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Systemic risk that was recently dormant is stirring, noted an economics research piece from Goldman Sachs. As credit spreads spike and pressure on bank equities has been building for weeks, it all just might be signaling a “reactivation of systemic risk concerns in markets.” That said analysis from Charles P. Himmelberg notes “fewer systemic concerns than credit markets are pricing.”   Yellen: Too Big To Fail still Too Big To Fail The “systemic concerns” of credit markets are perhaps most emblematic based on the soaring Deutsche Bank credit defaults swaps, which increasingly appear to be pricing in disaster as Fed…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.