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...Writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman were the same team that had been praised for the endearing teen pregnancy story Juno (2007) but Young Adult was altogether less adorable....
...He was a hard-drinking, hard-driving Special Boat Service operative who in an earlier era would have featured in an H. Rider Haggard novel....
...A quick look at this handy ratings reckoner (H/T Stacy-Marie Ishmael) unsurprisingly shows that a Caa1 rating carries “substantial risks”....
...(H/T Sam Jones) Related links: The hypocrisy of Steve Schwarzman, FAS 159 edition – FT Alphaville A few words on Schwarzman… – FT Alphaville When Stephen eats a banana – FT Alphaville...
...And a big H/T to Stacy-Marie Ishmael for sending the note in. Related links: A (hard) Greek restructuring by the numbers – FT Alphaville Who’s selling Greek CDS? – FT Alpahville...
...Hundreds of Bangladeshi garment factories supplying western buyers such as Walmart and H&M gradually reopened on Wednesday, after days of violent protests by tens of thousands of labourers demanding higher...
...(H/T Tony Tassell) Related links: SocGen: Mustier’s holiday reading spelled trouble – FT (2009) SocGen’s Mustier on the irrational world of investor anxieties – FT Alphaville (2007) ‘Let’s remain confident...
...(H/T @stockjockey and @ClevelandFed) Related links: Bailout watch, US Federal Housing Administration edition – FT Alphaville ‘The Federal Housing Administration is not in the long-run self supporting’ –...
...(H/T TB) Related links: Yes-we-Kan effect disappears in JGBs – FT Alphaville Japan’s post-Hatoyama outlook: ‘Shades of drab’ – FT Alphaville JGB update: Is Japan the next Greece?...
...(H/T @moorehn) Related links: The flash crash and why CEOs should worry – FT Trading Room ‘Flash crash’ shows need for price discovery and safeguards – Duncan Niederauer / FT Regulators decline to blame...
...(H/T Aline van Duyn) Related links: Rating agencies, Dodd-Frank and the ABS market - FT Alphaville Why repealing Rule 436(g) violates the first amendment and other rating agency guff – FT Alphaville Impact...
...(H/T Joseph Cotterill) Related links: Die Leerverkäufer sind kaputt (updated) – FT Alphaville Short-selling rules, the world tour - FT Alphaville The scale of sovereign short-selling - FT Alphaville BaFin...
...(H/T @CMEGroup) Related links: Lumber Prices Indicate Next Wave Down Underway – Nathan’s Economic Edge Timber, but not as we know it – FT Canada curbs lending to check housing boom – FT Timber!...
...(H/T sepp) Related links: Germany to extend short-selling ban – FT Die Leerverkäufer sind kaputt (updated) – FT Alphaville BaFin statement on Germany’s naked short selling ban – FT Alphaville Short-selling...
...(H/T @shannonpareil) Related links: April industrial production: Brazil’s bubble gets bigger – FT beyondbrics An own goal in Brazil’s capital controls? – FT Alphaville Brazil nuts?...
...(H/T @EconBizFin) Related links: Goodbye to the risk-free rate rate – FT Alphaville How Greece is contaminating European financials- FT Alphaville On the not-unlimited investor appetite for government bonds...
...(H/T @KidDynamiteBlog) Related links: David Einhorn vs the bloggers on credit default swaps – FT Alphaville Einhorn v Lehman, congressional hearings edition – FT Alphaville From the desk of David Einhorn...
...(H/T @pkedrosky and various Tweeps) Related links: Dear Wall Street: join me, or else – FT Alphaville What was at stake in the spat between Henry Luce and Harold Ross?...
...Legal types around the world, on your marks… (H/T @_alea) [UPDATE at 16H ET with Moody's] Looks like Moody’s beat Fitch to this one....
...(H/T Paul J Davies) Related links: US lawmakers free to continue their short selling, speculative ways – FT Alphaville BaFin says no evidence of malign Greek CDS speculation – FT Alphaville The CDS inquisition...
...(H/T Tony Tassell) Related links: Warren Buffett Plays A Guns N’ Roses Rock Star – Time...
...(H/T Paul J Davies) Related links: Foreign bankers accuse Myners of bullying – FT Myners enters the HFT debate – FT Alphaville MPs call Myners ‘bloody naive’ – FT Myners warns of risks from private equity...
...(H/T Josh Reviews Everything) Related links: China property bubble: Real or imaginary?...
...(H/T @pkedrosky) But there’s a caveat, and it comes in the form of the Australian government’s move to impose a 40 per cent tax on profits generated by resource companies from July 2012, as the FT reported...
...(H/T FT Tilt’s Stacy-Marie Ishmael for the report) Related links: New stock on the block – FT Facebook is worth $52 billion, and that’s not a good thing - MediaFile...
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