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Late Tuesday Headlines

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/04/2009 02:04 -0500



  • Good summary of Obama's first two weeks in office (New Editor)
  • Live Nation and Ticketmaster merging (NY Post)
  • Kyrgyzstan to force closure of airbase critical to US Afghanistan presence (NYT)
  • UBS tried to sell Paine Webber as recently as few weeks ago (
 
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Early Feb 3 Headlines

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/03/2009 13:30 -0500



  • UPS Freezes Salaries and Suspends 401(k) match on biggest volume drop in decade (PR)
  • Credit Suisse cutting bonuses by 55% (Bloomberg)
  • Fitch is starting to sniff for a general obligation California downgrade (MarketWatch)
  • $4.8
 
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Late Monday Headlines

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/03/2009 02:38 -0500



  • 20 million jobs lost in China from downturn to date - this is actually a very big deal (FT)
  • FDIC running out of cash, asks tripling of Treasury credit line to $100 billion (Reuters)
  • UBS alienates all current brokers with ridiculous new hire bonuses (
 
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Early Feb 2 Headlines

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/02/2009 13:21 -0500



  • First aggregator bank plan, now Stimulus bill potentially in tatters (FT)
  • Bidding war for future CDS clearinghouse (Bloomberg)
  • Violent anti-government rallies all over Russia (
 
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Late Sunday Headlines

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/02/2009 03:13 -0500



  • More on Alvarez & Marsal's intrepid raking in of Lehman billable hours (WSJ)
  • Charter Communications to file for bankruptcy any minute (NY Post)
  • South Carolina penitentiary inmate No.
 
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Early Jan 30 Headlines

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/30/2009 13:06 -0500



  • GDP: Q4 annualized report out at 8:30 am: Consensus at -5.5%, Actual at -3.8%: someone forget to carry the 1?
 
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Late Thursday Headlines

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/30/2009 01:30 -0500



  • Obama calls bonuses shameful, Dodd to seek legal recourse (Bloomberg)
  • Bloomberg to cut $1 billion worth of services to reduce budget (CBS)
  • Blagojevich removed from office (
 
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Early Jan 29 Headlines

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/29/2009 13:36 -0500



  • Economy on the brink: durable goods orders plummet, unemployment benefits hit record high (Bloomberg here and here)
  • Citi follows in Merrill footsteps, cancels boondoggles, cuts down on trips (NY Post)
  • Ford burns $5.5 billion in cash, changes tune, might need bail ou
 
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Late Wednesday Headlines

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/29/2009 02:53 -0500



  • Ruble rubble - currency crashes Wednesday by record 2.5% (Moscow Times)
  • Latest "reflexivity" ruminations by George Soros (FT)
  • House passes stimulus bill; not one republican votes for (Brutally Honest)
  • Doom and gloom: economic pain to be "worst for 60 years" (
 
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Early Headlines Jan 28

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/28/2009 13:11 -0500



  • Schwarzman can't wait to burn through more money (Bloomberg)
  • Bill Miller in urgent need of an appointment with Ari Kiev (Bloomberg)
  • Crisis could cost 50 million jobs (
 
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Late Tuesday Headlines

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/28/2009 03:06 -0500



  • Exxon cut to Neutral from Buy at UBS
  • 78,000 fired today (NY Post)
  • Thain called to testify on Merrill bonuses, hires spin doctors (FT, NY Post)
 
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Early Headlines January 27

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/27/2009 14:13 -0500



  • Bill Dudley to become new NY Fed President (Bloomberg)
  • Delta losses widen (Press Release)
  • Good article on why everyone who claims CDS are the reason for the current debacle, is a little slow (
 
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Late Monday Headlines

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/27/2009 02:29 -0500



  • Iceland government crumbles sending country into total chaos (Stratfor)
  • Endowments 101: How university endowments are about to have their worst year ever (Bloomberg)
  • Russian Finance Minister pushes for world financial watchdog (Moscow Times)
  • Merrill's 16,800 brokers on verge of mass exodus (
 
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January 26 Early Headlines

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/26/2009 13:12 -0500



  • Caterpillar stock plunges 20% premarket after outlook and job cuts (Bloomberg)
  • ING Group laying off 20,000 (NY Times)
  • Barclays says all good despite $10 billion writedown, we don't need your stinking bail out (
 
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Late Sunday Headlines

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/26/2009 02:45 -0500



  • Pfizer Offers $66.8 Billion for Wyeth (Bloomberg)
  • 8x levered auto supplier at 16 pts up CDS anyone?
 
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