Elsewhere on Tuesday,
- Superprime squeeze.
- Freddie Mac may slow the economy purchases of mortgages.
- FNM and FRE mortgage bonds are “an excellent buy“.
- Counterpoint: the dangers of touching mortgage debt too early.
- Bailouts: “taxpayers are always the losers“.
- Wall Street bonuses to fall by 20% in 2008.
- “Roche is attempting to capture Genentech’s significant future growth on the cheap.”
- “Roche may find it tough going to get Genentech directors to accept an $89-a-share bid, but can take comfort that at least financing shouldn’t be hard to find.”
- “MF Global’s performance since its IPO, when it was spun out from UK-based Man Group, has been an unmitigated train wreck.”
- Hedge fund seeks coin tosser quant. Benford’s law?
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