Watson's Ramblings - December, 2006

it offered everyday practicality with genuine supercar pace. Launched with a 3.0 litre 270 bhp engine, it was modified rarely during its lifecycle - an increase in capacity to 3.2 litres in 1997 and a six speed gearbox fitted and a headlight redesign in 2002 being the main changes.

The NSX never sold in great numbers in the U.K., so it can be difficult to track down used examples. Honda Chiswick

http://www.chiswickhonda.com

are an authorised NSX dealer, and usually have several example in stock

Wiki article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_NSX

U.S. forum

http://www.nsxprime.com/

U.K. forum

http://www.nsxcb.co.uk/

Specifications year by year

http://www.hondanews.com/catid3047?html=acura2005.html

Clarkson - best handling cars - mid 90's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVJePPjxX2E

VBH looks back over NSX history and drives a late example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAbvmLsAsdg

NSX (S Zero) beats 355 over quarter mile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYjUZV4OP8c&mode=related&search=

Good NSX book

http://www.amazon.co.uk/NSX-Hondas-Supercar-Brian-Long/dp/1904788432

Best place for sales

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/list.asp?s=328

Cars

Friday, December 15, 2006 8:24:41 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Bloomberg tickers

We have reached the painful stage in our project where we are mapping Bloomberg tickers to CDS entities. As can be seen from the CDSS screenshot below, the tickers are not exactly intuitive.

For example "CAB1E5" is Abbey Senior 5 year

so you would assume that 1 equals senior, and the E5 equates to 5 year maturity, but this is not always the case. Why they couldn't use a combination of markit ticker (or red code), seniority and tier is beyond me.

Example for the above could be: ABBEYSNR5

Anyway CDSD, option 17 can be used to download all Bloomberg CDS tickers