Selected reads from FT Alphaville this week,
- Credit Suisse’s chief global strategist Jonathan Wilmot guest edits FT Alphaville.
- Camel finance at the Dubai stock exchange.
- Haircuts in Dubai.
- Somali pirates establish their own stock exchange.
- Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid — poet and man.
- GE — the first US mega corporate to sell sukuk bonds.
- Al Maktoum’s yearnings for yearlings.
- Sovereign ponderings at Deutsche.
-`Broad QE‘ in Japanese.
- The Falkland Oillands revisited.
- Na-kheeled over.
- Sovereign CDS liquidity snaps.
- Goldman Sachs – because they’re worth it.
- FX is changing.
- How Goldman sees 2010.
- Hochtief Concessions IPO flop: an autopsy.
- How utilities are just like banks.
- Trichet and the Dubai spectre in low-speed Euroland.
Overheard in the Long Room,
- Institutional clients questioning FX costs too.
- Commercial Mortgage REIT Death Watch.
- A ‘dead government walking’.