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...Scott Nuttall and Joseph Bae, co-chief executives of the New York-based group, told the Financial Times they were seeing an improvement in activity to take portfolio companies public....
...Allan Levine will stay on as chairman and chief executive after the deal completes early next year....
...Elsewhere on Wednesday, – A longread from Reuters (via Levine) on how Wall Street’s self-regulator blocks public scrutiny of firms with tainted brokers, including: At Long Island-based Joseph Stone Capital...
...For the bitcoiners out there considering a Bitfinex holdout path, meanwhile, we do recommend Joseph Cotterill’s pari passu series....
...Vestager was in New York last week as well, where she spoke at an #EUDiscussion with Joseph Stiglitz from the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs....
...Dumb Yahoo math with Matt Levine (Bloomberg) Ivan Glasenberg, CEO, Glencore: Rescue cash call within a year of a $1bn share buyback. Smart....
...Much sounded different, however, thanks to the presence of James Levine on the podium....
...former spokesman to get back his company Blackberry after he allegedly threatened to “take down” the firm with press leaks… …Now read the lawsuit: (Click for the full doc) Here’s the bit where Adam Levine...
...: TPG claims Mr Levine has been leaking information and excruciating internal videos to the press....
...Matt Levine points out that one problem here is that Argentina needs third parties to identify who even holds its bonds. Moreover, the penalty here could be contempt of court....
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...Also recently, readers of the Independent (and Matt Levine) would have come across what must be one of the most pointlessly complicated derivatives transactions ever — and also involving a Portuguese company...
...Confronted by the likes of Sartre, de Beauvoir, Ginsberg, Bergman, Godard, Athol Fugard, John Berger and Joseph Beuys, Dumas found her ways of seeing indelibly changed....
...Joseph Cotterill, FT Lex, takes your questions on the sovereign debt trial of the century – or anything else sovereign debt-related....
...More from Matt Levine here. Related link: What’s email? – FT Alphaville (2009)...
...Matt Levine considers. - Oh, to be a Chinese VIE. ROUND-UP The usual pre-Fed volatility....
...FURTHER FURTHER READING - The FX ‘manipulation’ thing: thoughts from Matt Levine, Kid Dynamite, and Felix. - “High collateral haircuts increase the risk of large price falls.” Discuss....
...LVMH’s acquisition of young British designer Nicholas Kirkwood during Milan Fashion Week, and Kering’s investment in new American designer Joseph Altuzarra during the New York shows, sent the fashion rumour...
...- Matt Levine vs Bloomberg on that $83bn bank subsidy, encore. - Scott Sumner on the UK’s recoveryless jobbification. - Why US new home sales “suggest significant upside over the next few years”....
...- One-sided contest du jour: Matt Levine vs Bloomberg editorial, on banks. - Sequestration: the view from inside the defence machine. - Talking trees and US housing....
...- Apple vs Einhorn gets the Matt Levine treatment....
...(Read Matt Levine on this.) After all, the US alleges that investors lost “in excess of $5 billion… when the ratings were ultimately downgraded and the CDOs defaulted.” (Emphasis ours.)...
...Matt Levine weighs in. - A market monetarist flies to Iceland, by way of Singapore. - “And even Warren Buffett can’t consistently outperform the market any more…”...
...FRIEDMAN Update – Brilliance from Matt Levine at Dealbreaker (the background is that Leucadia will be spinning out a Napa-based winery company as part of the Jefferies deal): Still, I like it: you can...
...- Matt Levine on why shadow banking makes regular banking “sound like… Disneyland in Baudrillard.” - Why it’s going to take a very long time to get the measure of Xi Jinping....
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