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’It’s a financial blogwar!
The pixels are flying: Felix Salmon at Reuters on Thursday took a gratuitous swipe at The Business Insider’s Henry Blodget, over the latter’s alleged failure to disclose the details of his past wrangles with the SEC and Eliot Spitzer,
Currency ETCs revisited
FT Alphaville has previously delved deeply into the latest product offering from ETF Securities: “collateralised currency securities”, also known as ETCs.
We’re revisiting the topic, but while our conclusions remain unchanged — these are hugely complicated products — we would like to clarify one matter:
The business of financial commentary
We try not to indulge in media navel gazing here at FT Alphaville, but sometimes something comes along that just deserves a wider audience.
Step forward, Felix Salmon, the blog ambassador at Reuters,
All Reuters needs now is a name
Navel-gazing time now on FT Alphaville.
Rattled by the growth of the online financial commentariat – see expansion plans at the WSJ’s Heard on the Street column, Breaking Views, the FT’s influential Lex column and (cough) this humble blog – Thomson Reuters is launching its own opinion service this summer.