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• Lehmans London Unit Pays More to Keep Staff

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  In an effort to stop employees from defecting, Lehman Brothers is hiring bankers and paying generous bonuses in London, The Financial Times reported.
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• ‘More bad news’ on bank CDO exposures to come, BofAML says

  
  FT Alphaville — Authority: 688
  FT Alphaville wrote in October 2008 that, by and large, banks’ holdings of synthetic corporate CDOs had yet to be written down. Fast forward to December 2009, and it looks like the same might still be true for the majority of those holdings. Recall that synthetic CDOs are not backed by tangible collateral (RMBS,...
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• Bonuses for Lehman UK staff

  
  FT Alphaville — Authority: 688
  The European arm of collapsed US investment bank Lehman Brothers is hiring bankers and paying generous bonuses in London, as it recruits middle and back office staff to help administrators PwC check millions of transactions that must be reconciled with clients and trading partners. A judge overseeing Lehman’s US ...
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• Study Finds That Of All Factors Determining The "Bailoutability" Of Crappy Banks, Ties To The Federal Reserve Are Most Critical

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 741
  Adam Smith, Charles Darwin and George Washington are not only rolling in their graves, they are dancing the macarena. A new study by the UMich School of Business has found what everyone has known since the crisis began, if not centuries prior: that the biggest, crappiest banks were guaranteed to get more bailout ...
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• Doug Kass Predicts 2010s Big Colored Swans And Turkeys

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 741
  A list which contains both some quite interesting swans and turkeys:    1. There is a glaring upside to first-quarter 2010 corporate profits (up 100% year over year) and first-quarter 2010 GDP (up 4.5%). It grows clear that, owing to continued draconian cost cuts, coupled with a series of positive economic releases ...
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• Reinsurers to Take it on the Chin: Rates Likely to Fall 9% in January

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 763
  The Jan. 1, 2010, reinsurance renewal is approaching fast, but a quiet year for catastrophe losses is causing the annual ritual to proceed slowly. Insurers and reinsurers are still dancing around an agreement on next years rates, and an insider at a major reinsurance intermediary tells me that the process could extend ...
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• 2010 to witness devastating Food Crisis

  
  Global Crisis News — Authority: 115
  According to a recent analysis by Eric deCarbonnel from MarketSkeptics.com, “overwhelming, undeniable evidence that the world will run out of food next year”, which will result in “US economic disintegration”.The report details how the financial crisis which led to the collapse of the real estate market and ...
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• This decade’s current affairs: 2005 – 2009

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 580
  In the first half of the decade we watched as terror and fear took a stranglehold over the media and the world’s population, with the second half of the decade we asked would this trend continue or would there be a light at the end of the darkness?2005 wanted to be the year that everyone would remember for great ...
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• Super Banks: Structured To Fail

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 129
  So, while bank examiners comb through every loan transaction, collateral documentation, and performance history, the greater risks, those largely institutional as opposed to transactional, and the incentive to take those risks, goes largely unchallenged.New YorkIn the two decades since repeal of Glass-Steagall, ...
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• London Stock Exchange ready to join forces with Turquoise

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • The merger will make trading of large blocks of shares easier • LSE will secure a 60% stake in the new holding company The London Stock Exchange is on the brink of sealing an investment in new rival trading platform Turquoise, securing a controlling stake in the specialist operator. The deal, is ...
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• Executive at Barclays Defends Pay

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Robert E. Diamond Jr., the well-compensated president of Barclays Capital, at Chatham House.
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• Fears On Bank Reserves Overblown, Fed Study Says

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  Concerns over the surge in excess reserves in the U.S. banking system and its potential to fire up inflation are "largely unwarranted," according to two New York Federal Reserve economists.
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• Reuters BreakingViews: Exxon Learns From Rival’s Takeover Blunders

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  The oil company is acquiring XTO Energy for a price that is more than 30 percent below its June 2008 high.
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• I don’t pretend to understand the bond market. So, from the master…

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 543
  Pimco’s Gross Boosts Cash to Most Since Lehman Failed (Update3) Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) — Bill Gross, who runs the world’s biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., cut holdings of government debt and boosted cash to the most since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed in September 2008. Gross ...
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• Ex-Lehman Brothers staff to share $50m bonus bonanza

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 967
  A group of former Lehman Brothers employees working to wind-up the remnants of the collapsed investment bank are in line to share in a $50m (£31m) Christmas bonus pot.
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• Lehman Gets O.K. to Put $100 Million in Bank Unit

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  A U.S. bankruptcy judge said Lehman Brothers could inject another $100 million into its Aurora Bank unit so that it does not fall below the required regulatory capital level.
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• Stocks Seen Notching Up More Gains in 2010

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  Stocks should score a second straight year of gains in 2010 as an economic recovery brightens the profit outlook, extending the markets rebound from the depths of a punishing financial crisis, according to a Reuters poll.
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• Goldman and GLG Funds Win Lehman Ruling

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  Hedge funds controlled by Goldman Sachs and GLG Partners came out on the winning end of a London court ruling over how to distribute billions in clients money held by Lehman Brothers when it collapsed.
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• Goldman, GLG funds win UK case

  
  FT Alphaville — Authority: 688
  Hedge funds controlled by Goldman Sachs and GLG have won a vital UK court ruling over billions of dollars of clients’ cash held by Lehman Brothers when it collapsed. The High Court on Tuesday ruled money that was not properly ring-fenced by Lehman’s European arm could not be claimed out of a $1bn pool controlled ...
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• UK to unveil bank safeguards

  
  FT Alphaville — Authority: 688
  The UK Treasury will on Wednesday unveil plans to increase protection for clients and counterparties of failing investment banks, in efforts to prevent a repeat of the legal wrangling accompanying the collapse of Lehman Brothers. In one proposal to be announced by Lord Myners, City minister, banks would have to keep ...
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