Caption this, Zuckerberg edition
Via the FT Tech liveblog. Winner possibly gets this…
18/05/2012 (Before-FB)
Is life as we know it gonna change after 11am New York time on Friday?Will Mark Zuckerberg be crowned emperor of the dweebs (just as Napoleon was crowned emperor of the French...
Spanish banks, wider still
A flurry of short-covering, encouraged by rumours that the Spanish authorities might re-introduce a ban on short-selling, saw Spanish bank stocks bounce on Friday.But that “recovery”...
Spanish banks, wider still
A flurry of short-covering, encouraged by rumours that the Spanish authorities might re-introduce a ban on short-selling, saw Spanish bank stocks bounce on Friday.But that “recovery”...
A bund, a bund, my kingdom for a bund…
Zee 2, 5 and 10-year yieldz are still compressing…to fresh all-time lows.At which point will the Buba be forced to intervene and repo-out the state’s German bund stock?Related links:...
Trap door opens under US Treasury yields
1.697 per cent at pixel time. Worries about Europe, collateral crunching, people changing their minds about buying Facebook (which, by the way, priced at $38 a share)… take your pick....
[JPM Whale-Watching Tour] The high yield tranche piece
Coverage of the $2bn $3bn loss emanating from JPMorgan’s Chief Investment Office on its synthetic credit portfolio continues a pace, and FT Alphaville’s tour continues too....
Funnily enough, operational risk is more prevalent in Germany than Greece
Settlement fails.Whether one considers them a systemic problem or not is definitely debatable.A new study by post-trade experts Omgeo (based on a survey by Global Custodian) nevertheless,...
Greece: when the drugs run out
Beneath the political stasis — another sign of a sharp turn for the worse in Greece’s liquidity crisis.The country’s pharmacies are owed €500m by the state-backed...
And contagion is running wild…
Any vague “connection” to Europe is enough to get you hammered:That’s French Connection down 24 per cent. This is getting out of hand.(See here for the...
A flight to quality, charted
That’s German bund futures, on Wednesday. Fresh record.
Oh, Bankia.
The capital monster listed in July 2011 at €3.75 a share. At pixel time, after a heavy fall during Wednesday trading (on this El Mundo report), the shares are hugging €1.20....
