Thursday, April 19, 2012

How Much Risk is in the Derivatives Market

I found this link on ZeroHedge.com.  It gives you a real world comparison of how big the exposure is for the banks to the Derivatives market.  It's hard to get your head around how much money a trillion dollars is.


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http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/derivatives/bank_exposure.html

1 comment:

  1. Derivative market trading are nicely suited to speculate on the prices of commodities and other financial assets or on market variables like interest rates, market indices etc.

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