On FT Alphaville Thursday morning,
- Punch drunk at Punch Taverns.
- The return of merchant banking.
- Fishing for QE clues.
- Cisco-Tandberg: bump, dump or trump?
- Greenback down, Aussie up.
- Spanish banking crises, then and now.
- How the Basel II capital cliff begets resecuritisation.
- The Eurozone also rises.
- Financial collapse in one sentence in Further reading.
- Charts to take stock of it all in Pink picks.
- Watching Sainsbury soar in Markets Live.
On FT.com,
- Xstrata walks away from Anglo bid.
- RHJ to buy Kleinwort Benson for £225m.
- AB InBev sells central Europe assets to CVC.
- Crude oil at fresh year high over $75.