205054 Resource 133538 120646 120646 1211892703481 1211893978492 Controlled Spread Bets on UBS Spread betting on individual equities <font size="2"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Spread bets and CFDs on </span><a style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" title="Libor rates, Libor, spread bets, CFDs, spread bets UBS, spread betting, spread betting individual equities, contracts for differences, FTSE 100, financial sector FTSE 100" target="_blank" href="http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/05/ubs-more-mortgage-losses-possible.html">UBS in the stock market </a></font><font size="2" style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">should consider that there may be more trouble ahead for the embattled bank. More mortgage losses are possible for UBS, and that could continue to weigh on the stock -- as well as the rest of the financial sector on the FTSE 100.</font><br /><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><font size="2"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Additionally, the UBS news only causes wider cracks in the Libor rates. </span><a style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" title="Libor rates, Libor, spread bets, CFDs, spread bets UBS, spread betting, spread betting individual equities, contracts for differences, FTSE 100, financial sector FTSE 100" target="_blank" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601083&sid=aAA11bsMpVD4&refer=currency">Bloomberg reports on the problems with Libor rates</a><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">:</span></font><br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Such discrepancies are creating a crisis of confidence in the London interbank offered rate published daily by the London- based BBA and taken from the contributions of UBS, Lloyds TSB and 14 other banks. Rates on corporate bonds, leveraged buyouts loans, derivatives and even U.S. mortgages are pegged to Libor.</font></div> 9 application/xml false CFDs contracts for differences financial sector FTSE 100 FTSE 100 Libor Libor rates spread bets spread bets UBS spread betting spread betting individual equities Spread Bets on UBS on the Stock Market Spread betting on individual equities http://www.gftuk.com/land/index.asp?aid=53 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mmarquit 66.182.71.18 false true false false true 133538 blog blogsite/GFTUK/web