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According to people briefed on the proposal, Jana and its partners own 8percentt of CNet's voting stock and an additional 8percentt nonvoting economic interest through derivatives.
Enron owes the two banks anywhere from $800 million to $900 million each, although some of it may be hedged through derivatives contracts, analysts estimated.
Let's not forget Hayman Capital, which reportedly has bought both a big undisclosed equity stake and taken a bullish bet on the retailer's loans through derivatives.
This has been a big issue in Europe, where Porsche surprised investors in 2008 by suddenly announcing that it had accumulated 74 percent of Volkswagen through derivatives.
Others counter that most such exposures can be neutralised these days through derivatives markets.The second flaw is the sheer lack of understanding of some instruments.
At this point "it doesn't really matter what their exposure is" to subprime products through derivatives, said Alistair Thompson, the deputy head of Asia-Pacific equities at First State.
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"On the other hand, the BBC should not chase ratings through derivative or copycat programming.
They hedge their own exposure to interest-rate risk through derivative contracts.Both firms are helped by their ability to finance their acquisition of mortgages by issuing debt that financial markets believe to be backed by the federal government.
Hitherto, such defeats have been rare.Minority investors have seldom howled as loudly as in 2008 when Porsche, a German car firm, announced that it had openly bought 43% of the shares of Volkswagen, another manufacturer, and a further 32% secretly through derivative contracts.
But I find it inconceivable that "smart and sleazy" bankers, in Mr. Brooks's words, didn't comprehend that housing prices were grossly inflated, and that even a modest correction in housing prices would cause the default of a great many mortgage-backed securities and huge payouts by financial institutions that had agreed to insure such securities through "derivative" contracts.
A new global stochastic search, guided mainly through derivative-free directional information computable from the sample statistical moments of the design variables within a Monte Carlo setup, is proposed.
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