18 October 2013

Linkfest: Taper timing; Shutdown post-mortems; Naming names in FX probe

Posted In: Linkfest

Today’s most shared: The strange case of the fired Fed examiner… Naming names as FX investigation heats up… Fed taper timing… Nobel foundation could have used advice from Shiller and Fama.

1. Anatomy of a shutdown
Politico
shared by @TheStalwart, @ObsoleteDogma

2. Fed isn’t likely to trim its bond buying in October. December and January are on table but unclear
Wall Street Journal
shared by @firstadopter, @ObsoleteDogma, @IvanTheK, Calculated Risk

3. Barclays, Citigroup, RBS FX Messages Said to Be Examined
Bloomberg
shared by @ThemisSal, Here Is The City, @JohnLothian

4. NY Fed’s Fired Goldman Examiner Makes Weird Case
Bloomberg
shared by @LaurenLaCapra, @JEliasof, @EpicureanDeal

5. The Bank Of England Holds Question Time On Twitter
Business Insider
shared by @jasonzweigwsj, reddit/Economics, @Kiffmeister

6. Who let the regulatory clowns out?
Financial Times
shared by @GTCost, @davidenrich

7. New effort to reform US mortgage banks
Financial Times
shared by @MarkThoma, Naked Capitalism

8. McConnell’s Exit Interview
National Review Online
shared by @TheStalwart, @kairyssdal, @reddy, Business Insider, @greg_ip and 4 more

9. New Nobel economist Robert Shiller on the insanity of markets
pbs.org
shared by @ritholtz, The Big Picture, @JacobWolinsky, @wonkmonk_

10. Prosecutors and SAC head toward possible record-breaking settlement, as clock ticks
Wall Street Journal
shared by Business Insider, @nancefinance, reddit/Economics

11. (bonus) How traders might have made money manipulating massive currency markets
Quartz
shared by @JacobWolinsky, @JoeSaluzzi, @ThemisSal

12. (bonus) Nobel Foundation Seeks Charity as Hedge Funds Aren’t Enough
Bloomberg
shared by @hedge_funds, @pkedrosky

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Tags: Bank of England, debt ceiling, Fannie Mae, Federal Reserve, FX, Goldman Sachs, Government shutdown, GSEs, Nobel, SAC, Tapering

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Druce Vertes, CFA

Druce Vertes, CFA, is the founder of StreetEYE, a social news aggregator for financial market news. He previously worked as an analyst, consultant, and IT manager at several major sell-side firms and hedge funds.