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This excerpt taken from the PNC 10-Q filed Aug 9, 2006. MARKET RISK MANAGEMENT TRADING RISK Our trading activities primarily include customer-driven trading in fixed income securities, equities, derivatives, and foreign exchange contracts. They also include the underwriting of fixed income and equity securities and proprietary trading.
We use value-at-risk (VaR) as the primary means to measure and monitor market risk in trading activities. The Risk Committee of the Board establishes an enterprise-wide VaR limit on our trading activities. The following table shows VaR usage for the second quarter of 2006 by product type: This excerpt taken from the PNC 10-Q filed May 9, 2006. MARKET RISK MANAGEMENT TRADING RISK Our trading activities include the underwriting of fixed income and equity securities, as well as customer-driven and proprietary trading in fixed income securities, equities, derivatives, and foreign exchange contracts. We use value-at-risk (VaR) as the primary means to measure and monitor market risk in trading activities. The Risk Committee of the Board establishes an enterprise-wide VaR limit on our trading activities.
The following table shows VaR usage for the first quarter of 2006 by product type: | EXCERPTS ON THIS PAGE:
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