Tuesday, June 19, 2007

RPT-UPDATE 2-Trichet: Hedge funds not irrationaly exuberant

(Reuters) - Asked whether the highly-indebted investment instruments
represented the same sort of "irrational exuberance" described
by then-Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan regarding the stock
market in the 1990s, Trichet said: "I would not repeat the words
of Alan."




Trichet said he supported a hands-off mechanism of
self-regulation for such funds, which would allow them to
determine benchmarks for the industry without the coercion of
regulators.


Read more at Reuters.com Government Filings News

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