Today’s most shared: BlackRock – just doing their homework, or leveraging scale to tilt the playing field? … Bank leverage rules poised for dilution… The value of sell-side research… $50b mortgage bill for banks… Silicon Valley, from insurgent to incumbent… … Read more
Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: Janet Yellen ascends, financial world asks what her era will bring… BlackRock agrees to no longer ask analysts for unpublished views… Lenders mine social media for creditworthiness clues… Bitcoins – the BusinessWeek cover indicator is here… Empirical … Read more
Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: How JPMorgan shorted Madoff, and other followups… Feds probe OTC bond markets – where does puffery become fraud, balance sheet misstatement? … SAC’s primetime moment … Spain needs to borrow big this year… Emerging markets submerge… Low … Read more
Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: $31b in fines just chump change to JPMorgan… Berkshire Hathaway as a consumer brand… Puerto Rico exodus… Hot CEOs get hot share prices… Sleeper ideas for 2014… In the future, everyone will have their own cryptocurrency… Casino … Read more
Leave a CommentI was scanning the news the other day, and someone on Hacker News mentioned that half the items above the fold on StreetEYE were about Bitcoin. And I said to myself, I haven’t seen the neckbeards this excited since the … Read more
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Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: Why Steven Cohen isn’t in jail… Soros: Strong US, weak Europe, China a huge question mark, political challenges dominate… Gross’s annus horribilis… Financial repression… China’s liquidity crisis, and chronic issues… Greatest worries… best tweets of 2013. Why … Read more
Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: Happy New Year! Is Mukhtar Abylazov a thief or a hero? … High end buyers return … Big winners of 2013 … Biggest surprises of the last 25 years… Buffett fails to beat S&P for last 5 … Read more
Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: For our final 2013 linkfest, a look back at a year of risk-on… Stocks beat bonds by the largest margin on record… housing in 10 major markets returned to all-time highs… Private equity shops are cashing out … Read more
Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: Turkey turmoil… Dodging taxes in Dakota… Dating when the crisis turned around – late 2011… Bullishness jumps… Sell side’s worst rated stocks outperformed best in 2013… Tech’s lost year… Treasury yield hits 3%… End of unemployment insurance … Read more
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