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That's right. There's a really bad sentiment towards some of the companies in the TA25 these days (7 pct. down today). All in all, I've had much (much) more intensive days adjusting derivative positions.

Approximate fees for Better Place's service in Israel were published today. 1,300NIS\month (around 370USD), for 26*1000[Km]/year. 3 years ago, in a presentation I attended to, Mr. Agassi said that the costumers would only pay that monthly fee. As far as I understood from the paper, the clients would actually buy the car. Well, paying 35K$ for a car that might appear to have no market after a few years, when one wants to sell it... sure. :P

:D Gotta love those rocket surgeons.

Couldn't care less about the looks (It is a website, not a girl ;)). As long as the information I need is there, and when I needed some help from the IR of Odyssey, they promptly replied with answers and relevant data. To me, that's more important than a fancy design.

Oh wow, totally skipped my mind! Thanks, that would be useful. :) As for Fairfax: What I was able to get from the annual reports, was the amounts held & sold by period, plus the profits. Hoped that there was some source in which the notional amounts were breaken down by reference entities.

Hi all, If I'm not mistaken there was some presentation back than, explaining a little bit about Fairfax's CDS position. But couldn't find it on the company's site. I'm supposed to present a subject about credit risk (30 minutes), in a course I'm taking, and trying to gather all the information I can about FFH's trade. So far, I only got the AGM presentations, annual letters and reports. Along with some interviews from the globe and mail. Today my professor told me that: How those swaps work, and things like ways of reducing counter-party risk, are being covered in the course (which means that a significant part of my presentation is being cut, and I need to feel the gap). Any help would be very appreciated. Sorry about my English. :-\ Many thanks.

Hello. :D

Packer I would add that in case the options are deep in the money, the dividend yield and the hurdle rate of the debit, should be taken into account as well. I will second that. The solution and the assignment manuals are both very useful, for better understanding.

As long as you have hair...

The Junior Achievement organization, might be able to help you there. Here's a link to the european site, with the available programmes for the relevant age group: link Back in the junior high, i took a part in what seems to be the "Company Program", although i think they've changed it (it used to be a way longer). our team won the european contest. But hardly made any money. Took it again, during high school, with 3 other guys who also were a part of the former company. Didn't win any contest, only focused on making money, and so we did. ;D I'm sure there's an equivalent (probably even better) organization in north america.

International equities: HCC FFH PVD LZ AKO.A RLOG BIP BAP CEDC CPL LEAPS (long only, to lock the number of shares my money in the Israeli market could buy.): XLP WMT CLX JNJ CL Israeli securities [CPI indexed corp. bonds, derivatives (both long and short), microcaps].

That might be a little off topic: I'm really not familiar with the oil industry. in such cases, does a company like BP have the ability to deal with the spill, on their own. or do some companies benefit from services and materials they provide to BP?

Oh sorry, your link was all right. I mean in general. never found any direct link from the articles in heb., when i wanted to forward the english version to someone who didn't read hebrew. Happy holiday. :)

Is there any fast way to get to the english version of an article, from the hebrew one? didn't find any link. Thanks.

printing to PDF should do the trick.

The derivatives market would be more liquid. Negative expectancy of newbies (most likely), means more money to the participants who take things seriously, and to the brokers.

I was very surprised. I'd expect much better results, from any institute of technology.

Hull's "Options, futures, and other derivatives".