Tuesday, May 22, 2012

An $8bn Loss Or Was JPMorgan 'Unhedged, Long-And-Wrong' Post-LTRO2?

The full set of DTCC data is in (that is the repository for reporting CDS data) and reading between the lines provides us with some significant color on what was occurring at JPM's CIO office. For the Cliff Notes' version - see the summary at the bottom...

First things first, the position does not appear to have any HY9 tranche involvement at all, but a modest short HY credit index position was unwound in mid-Feb (we suspect related to the IG9 tranche unwind - since the delta ratio

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