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Today’s most shared: Bank of England got early warning of benchmark-rigging. Did Washington beat Wall Street on post-crisis financial reforms? Tapering could cut flows to emerging markets. The Faustian bargain of long hours on Wall Street. Hedge funds led by … Read more

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Today’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Janet Yellen ascends, financial world asks what her era will bring… BlackRock agrees to no longer ask analysts for unpublished views… Lenders mine social media for creditworthiness clues… Bitcoins – the BusinessWeek cover indicator is here… Empirical … Read more