The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth
by Nicolas Niarchos · 20 Jan 2026 · 654pp · 170,150 words
were driven by financial motives as well as the desire to do business with Gertler: They were set between 3 and 7 percent over the London interbank offered rate (LIBOR), which sometimes pushed them into double-digit territory. These were hardly low-interest loans, the firm argued. “Glencore has made loans to companies associated
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Petit. See Hamze, Alex Hayssam LeVine, Steve, 179 LFP. See lithium iron phosphate LG, 108, 109 LG Chem, 179, 239 Libération (newspaper), 116 LIBOR. See London interbank offered rate Li Daqian, 107 Likasi, 18, 88, 175, 288, 299 Lincoln Laboratory, 79 lithium, 1, 279 Apple’s use of, 6 price fluctuations, 92 lithium cobalt
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(NMC) battery, 177–78, 246 cobalt in, 180–81 Lithium Triangle, South America, 92 Liu, Betty, 193 Lobito Atlantic Railway, 298, 299 Lobito Corridor, 300 London interbank offered rate (LIBOR), 275 London Metal Exchange, 246 London Stock Exchange, 274–75 Long Hard Road (Murray), 91 Longley, Alan, 362 Los Angeles, 58 Louisiana, 62 Lualaba
Stigum's Money Market, 4E
by Marcia Stigum and Anthony Crescenzi · 9 Feb 2007 · 1,202pp · 424,886 words
. Today, swaps are quoted at Treasuries plus, with the understanding that the Treasuries plus rate is the fixed rate for a swap against LIBOR, the London Interbank Offered Rate for Eurodollar deposits (there are many LIBORs—3-month LIBOR, 6-month LIBOR, and so on, but for most swaps 3- or 6-month LIBOR
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detail in Chapter 18. LIBOR, LIBID, LIMEAN The rate at which banks in London offer Eurodollars in the placement market is referred to as the London Interbank Offered Rate, LIBOR for short. The rate at which Eurodollars are bid goes by the acronym LIBID, the London Interbank Bid Rate. LIMEAN is the mean of
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have dollars deposited in commercial banks outside the United States. These deposits are known as Eurodollars. Over two decades ago the widespread use of LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate) as a reference rate for dealing in Eurodollar deposits led many to think that a Eurodollar futures contract had the potential to be the most
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VRCD is set at some fixed spread to a particular base rate, which is usually a composite secondary market CD rate, a T-bill rate, London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), the prime rate, or some other variable rate. The major buyers of variable-rate CDs in the early days were money market funds. In
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the leased equipment, borrowing the rest from another lender. LIBID (London interbank bid rate): The rate for Eurodollar time deposits of a given tenor. LIBOR (London interbank offered rate): The rate on Eurodollar deposits traded between banks. There is a different LIBOR rate for each deposit maturity. Different banks may quote slightly different LIBOR
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business banks/banking Eurodollars letter repos portfolios leverage banks/banking futures repos liabilities/assets, corporate finance liability swaps LIBID (see London Interbank Bid Rate) LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate) Eurodollars interest-rate swaps lifting a leg, swap books LIMEAN, Eurodollars limits, Eurodollars LIONS (investment opportunity notes) liquidity commercial paper Eurodollars futures loan participations reverse
The Investopedia Guide to Wall Speak: The Terms You Need to Know to Talk Like Cramer, Think Like Soros, and Buy Like Buffett
by Jack (edited By) Guinan · 27 Jul 2009 · 353pp · 88,376 words
mainly for continuity purposes in swap contracts dating back to preeuro times and is not used very commonly. Related Terms: • Debt • Interest Rate • Money Market • London Interbank Offer Rate—LIBOR • Singapore Interbank Offered Rate—SIBOR Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) What Does Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) Mean? A type of closed-end mutual fund that
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the LIBOR, which is set daily, based on the average rates on loans made within the London interbank market. Related Terms: • Euro LIBOR • Interest Rate • London Interbank Offered Rate—LIBOR • Federal Funds Rate • Singapore Interbank Offered Rate—SIBOR Interest Coverage Ratio What Does Interest Coverage Ratio Mean? A ratio used to determine how easily
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similar. Related Terms: • Breakpoint • Mutual Fund • No-Load Fund • Front-End Load • Net Asset Value—NAV 166 The Investopedia Guide to Wall Speak London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) What Does London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) Mean? An interest rate at which banks borrow funds from other banks in the London interbank market; the LIBOR is fixed on a
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filtered average of the world’s most creditworthy banks’ interbank deposit rates for larger loans with maturities between overnight and a full year. Investopedia explains London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) The LIBOR is the world’s most widely used benchmark for shortterm interest rates. It is important because it is the rate at which
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in the Asian economy are quoted or denominated in SIBOR plus a number of basis points. Related Terms: • Cash and Cash Equivalents—CCE • Euro LIBOR • London Interbank Offered Rate—LIBOR • Money Markets • Swap Small Cap What Does Small Cap Mean? Stocks of companies that have a relatively small market capitalization; the criteria for small
Barometer of Fear: An Insider's Account of Rogue Trading and the Greatest Banking Scandal in History
by Alexis Stenfors · 14 May 2017 · 312pp · 93,836 words
International Capital Market Association IMM International Monetary Market IRS interest rate swap ISDA International Swaps and Derivatives Association KLIBOR Kuala Lumpur Interbank Offered Rate LIBOR London Interbank Offered Rate LIFFE London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange NIBOR Norwegian Interbank Offered Rate OIS overnight index swap OPEC Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries OTC
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fragments and observations that I thought were important, and that had bothered me deeply for a while. One such observation I introduced in the heading ‘London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR2) manipulation’. Another was ‘Foreign exchange (FX) order books’. Both of these outlined how the foreign exchange and money markets were systematically manipulated, how it
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of norms’. Michigan Law Review, 96, 338–433. McAndrews, J., Sarkar, A. and Wang, Z. (2008) ‘The effect of the term auction facility on the London Interbank Offered Rate’. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, 335. McCool, G. (2009) ‘Merrill bonus names are not secret: NY judge’. Reuters, 18 March. Available from
EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts
by Ashoka Mody · 7 May 2018
Corporation Free Democratic Party Federal Open Market Committee Gross Domestic Product Global Financial Stability Report IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG International Monetary Fund Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau London Interbank Offered Rate La République En Marche Long-Term Capital Management Longer-Term Refinancing Operations Member of the European Parliament Monte dei Paschi di Siena North Atlantic Treaty
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percentage point. A higher premium indicates a perception of higher default risk. The term premium for US dollars is the difference between the three-month London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and the Overnight Indexed Swap (OIS). The difference between the three-month Euro Interbank Offered Rate (EURIBOR) and the Euro Overnight Index Average (EONIA
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International Settlements 2008b, 95. Armantier, Krieger, and McAndrews 2008, 2. Bernanke 2015, 139–140. The premium is measured as the LIBOR-OIS spread. LIBOR (the London Interbank Offered Rate) indicates the rate that a large bank pays to borrow from another large bank. The OIS (Overnight Indexed Swap) contract entitles the borrowing bank to
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Liikanen, Erkki, 416 Lincoln, Abraham, 8 Lindner, Christian, 426, 427, 435 Lipsky, John, 258, 262 Lisbon Agenda, 170 Lithuania, 433 London Debt Agreement (1953), 415 London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), 196f longer-term refinancing options (LTROs), 304–306 LTROs. See longer-term refinancing options Lucidi, Federico, 366 Lundsager, Meg, 258 Luns, Joseph, 31 Luxembourg
Broken Markets: A User's Guide to the Post-Finance Economy
by Kevin Mellyn · 18 Jun 2012 · 183pp · 17,571 words
in the interbank-lending market began to get very nervous about the creditworthiness of one another and ramped up prices (the key one being the London Interbank Offered Rate [LIBOR]) while cutting back supply.The market froze up and has never become completely unfrozen since; it’s down 60 percent from its pre-crisis
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partnerships, 87 separation of functions, 87 shareholder-owned banks, 87 small-town banks, 87 Life-line banking, 70 R Liquidity trap, 72 Ring fencing, 88 London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), 102 Rules-based regulation, 59, 61 M S “Market-centric” financial system, 110 Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS), 108 Regulation process “Anglo-Saxon” world
The City
by Tony Norfield · 352pp · 98,561 words
.28 Furthermore, the nature of the UK banking and credit market is very different from that of the US. Far from US dollar LIBOR – the London Interbank Offered Rate for loans between banks in US dollars – being ‘effectively the internationally “traded version” of the Fed’s interest rate’,29 it is a rate that
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This was because the London market had (and has) a large number of banks performing these wholesale market operations. That is why there is a London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), which gives the interest rates for borrowing in this active interbank market in unsecured term loans, and why there is no such thing as
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leverage ratios American 131 banks 131–4, 133, 134, 138 liberalisation 13–14 Libya 2 living standards, working-class 154–5 London, geographical location 37 London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) 15, 46, 48, 216 London Stock Exchange 34, 113, 182, 221 Big Bang reform 66–70 Luxembourg 4, 70, 174–5, 178, 184, 205
Commodity Trading Advisors: Risk, Performance Analysis, and Selection
by Greg N. Gregoriou, Vassilios Karavas, François-Serge Lhabitant and Fabrice Douglas Rouah · 23 Sep 2004
Standard and Poor’s monthly return series as underlying. As proxy for the risk-free rate, we took the one-month U.S. Dollar (USD) London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR). RESULTS Nonnormality of Returns We test for nonnormality of returns with the Jarque and Bera (1987) test (see Greene 2000). Analyzing the samples, we
The Blue Cascade: A Memoir of Life After War
by Mike Scotti · 14 May 2012 · 287pp · 92,118 words
anymore. I don’t care about signing bonuses or networking or generally accepted accounting principles. About half-Windsor tie knots, proper Excel formatting, or the London interbank offered rate. Then a tap-tap-tap on my shoulder. “Sir, are you friends with that gentleman over there?” “Yes.” “I’m sorry, sir, but he is
The Making of Global Capitalism
by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin · 8 Oct 2012 · 823pp · 206,070 words
, 229 Inter–American Bank, 72 interbank market, 153, 179, 206, 215, 249, 254, 311–4, 325–8, 334 Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS), 153 London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), 312 Interest Equalization Tax (IET, 1963 ), 125 inter-imperial rivalry, 2, 5, 13–14, 43, 79, 134, 218 International Association of Securities Commissions, 235
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