On FT Alphaville this morning,
- On the back of the Bush bail-out:
- Gillian Tett thinks the political subprime finger-pointing is going to get ugly
- Partly because it’s not all just about ‘subprime’
- What a difference a CDO makes – don’t be tempted to generalise amid CDO-panic
- Bungs all round in the latest plan for the Rock
- Meanwhile, there are rumblings of concern about the Crock effect on London
- The latest from the machinations over who should lift Citi’s poisoned chalice?
- Is the decline of the dollar going to deliver an M&A bonanza?
- And Chris Wood introduces us to a new concept in his latest Greed & Fear letter – “Boomophobia”
On FT.com,
- Emap has managed to flog its consumer mags and radio businesses to German publisher H Bauer. But the shares have dropped on the lack of progress in the B2B sale.
- Don’t cry. Several top retailers and dairies are paying fines to settle with the OFT over its investigation of price-fixing in the milk market.
- House price inflation slowed to its lowest rate this year, the FT house price index showed Friday.
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