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To: groanup

There’s all sorts of indexes in debt products that you won’t see in the retail market that are created and used by investment banks.

Here’s a CMO index created by Merrill:

http://www.ml.com/index.asp?id=7695_7696_8149_63464_72859_73444


15 posted on 08/24/2008 8:59:32 AM PDT by NVDave
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To: NVDave

But you can’t just short an index. There has to be some sort of contract or security to short.


18 posted on 08/24/2008 10:23:38 AM PDT by groanup (Here, bend over and let me give you my carbon footprint.)
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