This week on FT Alphaville,
- Catching up after the long weekend, it seemed the Fed had suddenly become the ‘buyer of last resort’
- Iceland was the latest cause for concern
- Along with the repo market
- Meredith Whitney was back to her usual tricks on Wednesday
- While the FSA was concerned that we know all about their filing systems
- We discovered a Real Share Hustle
- And there was some alcohol-fuelled M&A chatter
- By Thursday, bad news. The monolines had reappeared
- But you can invest terror-(if not anxiety)-free
- Deals were dying on Friday. No wonder M&A’s at a four-year low
- Was the apparent lack of interest in the Fed’s latest liquidity gift a good sign? Or not.
- And what next, internment? The “bank robber” hysteria spirals further out of control
Have a good, and most importantly rumour-free, weekend.
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