<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>NCB Capital Markets</title><link>http://www.ncbcapitalmarkets.com/eBlog/</link><description>Thoughts On The Industry</description><image /><copyright>Powered by: Blog Copyright 2006</copyright><item><title>Diversification – to divide (investment of funds etc) among different securities to reduce risk.</title><description><![CDATA[<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Last night I had an interesting conversation with a client…..he aggressively tried to convince me that he was “well diversified” because he had repos with several entities!!. This is common among investors…..but the reality is that this strategy still concentrates your exposure to ONE security…..i.e. GOJ.</font></span>]]></description><link>http://www.ncbcapitalmarkets.com/eBlog//default.asp?Display=8</link><pubDate>02/03/2009 11:04:59</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Willie's Views: Have J$ Rates Peaked?</title><description><![CDATA[<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Wednesday’s Treasury-Bill auction saw the average yield on the 6-month Treasury Bill coming in at 24.26%, 19 basis points lower than the previous month.</span></span></span>]]></description><link>http://www.ncbcapitalmarkets.com/eBlog//default.asp?Display=7</link><pubDate>02/03/2009 10:58:35</pubDate></item></channel></rss>