On FT Alphaville this week,
- Dear Cadbury’s…love, Kraft.
- Emergency, securitised CPR.
- British Airways suffered pension tension.
- Santander subordinates took a siesta.
- Cay-man down.
- The UN weighed in on the dollar reserve debate.
- Barcap said speculators were not to blame!
- Kingfisher sprang a leak.
- Will the housing market rescue the UK?
- The rally in paper gold, redux.
- Italy made the Medicis proud.
- ECB secret QE, or not?.
- US consumers’ massive deleveraging was in full swing.
- The US Treasury was downbeat on housing, and there was more bad news for commercial real estate.
- The Black Swan battle kicked off.
- Moody’s launched a hybrid debt attack.
- The fabulous Footsie broke through 5000.
- China discovered the joy of DIY debt.
- A fresh Spanish catastrophe datapoint.
- A Bernie Madoff guide to breaking the law.
- An update on the Fed’s enigmatic CMBS portfolio.
- The world of sporting retail in the UK – was interesting, to say the least.
- Master trusts, slavishly supported.
- The Halabi CMBS wind-up.- Goldman Sachs dismissed deleveraging.
- HFT claimed its first casualty: Van der Moolen.
- The condo collapse felled Corus.
- And we commemorated the fall of Lehman brothers.