This week on FT Alphaville,
- Some speculation about a UK bad bank, surely not?
- A failure of communication at the BoE
- A socialist shopper was born
- Zimbabwe makes a statement: all quiet!
- Vikki Pandit was not having a good Monday
- Were things really that bad in China?
- ‘Gordon’s devaluing, it’s not fair!’, said Ireland
- And so began the sovereign downgrades: hasta la vista Espana?
- Could the last one out please turn off the lights?
- Pot, kettle, black
- A secret ECB devaluation?
- Gold went sub-standard
- Some green shoots in the corporate bond market, ahhh
- A Heathrow land grab
- Bernanke’s exit strategy, at last!
- A little more devaluation
- Hmmm, further speculation about a UK bad bank
- The UK trading trading like it’s 1697, in this day?
- GE that was awful
- Some bad news for Barclays employees
- Another bad day for Pandit
- Oops, HSBC needs $20-30 bn
- Pandit still hoping for a better day
- Yup, things really were that bad in China
- What, an Irish downgrade too?
- Deutsche Bank, we have a prop-lem
- Energy markets were cracktastic
- Oh no, not another downgrade?
- Farewell HBOS, we shorted you well
- Buiter went euro pampheteering
- Uh oh, HSBC still needs $20-30 bn
- Some ECB snooze news
- Russia and Ukraine still at it?
- WTI was just a chocolate oven-glove
- JP Morgan done good
- Another warning from Edwardamus
- Hasta la vista California?
- The curious tale of Madoff, Finra and the woman who would be SEC chair
- Volcker declines to say how to fix the financial system
- Where’s the good bank?
- Another Eastern European meltdown?
- Thoughts on Barc’s 25% share price collapse on Friday afternoon.
- Ken Lewis: Good at what?