Greece's biggest holdout, dealt with? FT Alphaville (blog) Goodbye to one massive FT Alphaville bugbear, anyway? An interesting story from Stephen Fidler of the WSJ/DJ FX Trader: The idea is for the ECB, in effect, to exchange its Greek bonds for bonds of the European Financial Stability Facility, ...
Foreign Filmmaking Legends Impact Magazine Two personal favourites are Alphaville and Bande à part, both entirely different, one a sci-fi, the latter a romantic thriller complete with incredible shots of Paris. Both, however, capture the very essence of Godard as a director and will interest ...
Train Reading: Have Earnings Peaked? Wall Street Journal (blog) Real TIme Economics Does a multimonitor setup increases productivity? ? NY Times The natural gas market has always behaved a little oddly. But now investors have to contend with fracking too. ? FT Alphaville Will the government put money market funds ...
Understanding the Demand for Safe Assets CNBC.com Cardiff Garcia at FT Alphaville outlines the findings of a paper presented at the annual meetings of the Allied Social Science Associations a couple of weeks ago in Chicago. The paper's authors ? Gary Gorton, Stefan Lewellen and Andrew Metrick ...
Carnegie, Rockefeller, Carter? Jay-Z's American Dream New York Magazine (blog) And now that I've seen him in a tuxedo doing ?Young Forever? to stacked balconies in a concert hall ? Alphaville's eighties slow-dance music pinging sentimentally off the walls, people in formalwear ? I think we could add ?cruise ship entertainment ...
An exhaustingly entertaining ride The Daily Star None is more impudent than Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 ?Alphaville, Une Etrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution? (Alphaville: A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution). This rigorously unconventional movie, which walked away with the Golden Bear at that year's Berlin ...
4 Cheap Dividend Plays With Limited Upside Seeking Alpha Fourth quarter results may be weak, but the company is appropriately de-risking the business by shifting away from Tenda and towards Alphaville. In addition, management is securitizing receivables to further limit cash flow burn. Based on my analysis, ...
The ECB Is Plugging Holes Seeking Alpha The market usually focuses on the marketable assets portion of M3, M3-M2, as a representation of funding access ? here's an FT Alphaville post highlighting as much. In December 2011, M3-M2 declined 0.2% over the year, its first annual decline since ...
Live: Jay-Z Takes Over Carnegie Hall Village Voice (blog) While the official set list closed with "Young Forever," the sorta-uplifting-but-not-really Blueprint III track that interpolates Alphaville's prom staple "Forever Young," Jay had other plans: He wanted to go up and perform with the people.
Morgan Stanley's most mysterious footnote ? Part 1 FT Alphaville (blog) All the other banks (and FT Alphaville) certainly want to know? Unfortunately the bank isn't talking. No matter, FT Alphaville has a few ideas and so does IFR's Chris Whittall, who has been up to his usual expert sleuthing. More on that in a moment.
Guest post from OWS: Too Big to Fail is Too Big to Ignore FT Alphaville (blog) As with the prior note published on FT Alphaville, we present it ? without comment ? as a document for understanding the aims of OWS. As a presidential candidate, Jon Huntsman proposed a six-point plan to address the critical and important problem of ...
The Vix feedback loop, analysed FT Alphaville (blog) In a soon to be published report about the structure and effects of volatility trading, seen by FT Alphaville, Chien discusses the realities of these much speculated about effects. As Chien notes, the big question really is whether the growth of VIX ...
Flame Burger Factory in Chandler, AZ Central.com Overhead speakers play a steady stream of '80s tunes from artists like George Michael and Alphaville. You order at the counter, behind which a mesquite charcoal grill anchors an open kitchen. Food: The menu is small but wide-ranging, ...
Rebellious cinema, revolutionary age The Daily Star Among the greats of the cycle is Jean-Luc Godard's dark opus ?Alphaville, Une Etrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution? (Alphaville: A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution), which won the Golden Bear at the 1965 Berlin International Film Festival and stars ...
Today's Best Money Blogs CNBC.com So no Felix Salmon, FT Alphaville, or DealBook. These are the sites that have struck out on their own, untethered to the ?mainstream media.? Some of them ? like Business Insider or Minyanville ? have become so successful that we almost disqualified ...
Kitschy take on Shakespeare Times LIVE With 1970s kung fu movies, pop hits such as Charles Douglas's disco dance tune Kung Fu Fighting , Alphaville's 1984 Big in Japan , David Bowie's 1983 China Girl as well as a few references to contemporary animation (the adorable actor in the panda suit ...
City Spy: Saatchi rivals are working together Evening Standard FT Alphaville - the entertaining financial news blog headed by Paul Murphy - has an extra participant this week. Just after its Markets Live broadcast began at 11am yesterday, Murphy spotted a fat mouse under his colleague Bryce Elder's desk.
Morgan Stanley's most mysterious footnote ? Part 2 FT Alphaville (blog) To this FT Alphaville would like to suggest a few additional possibilities. Our first thought when we saw the press release was that the Italy trades were novated, ie another party was found to take Morgan Stanley's side of the trade in exchange for a ...
It's bonus season, so what's the meaning of life? FT Alphaville (blog) In order to assist in annual life debate, FT Alphaville would like to share with you some excerpts from a rather interesting blog post on The iBanker about why people tend to get into investment banking to begin with. First a handy diagramme (click to ...