Renaissance

Remember the deal which to much fanfare, lots of subsequent Merrill upgrades, and endless boasting by SL Green CEO Marc Holliday was supposed to usher in the second golden age for New York Commercial Real Estate? The deal that was the alleged steal of 485 Lex by a bunch of shady investors which we wrote about first 4 months ago. The deal that SL Green CEO, Marc Holliday said "is a first, but significant step
towards the sale of interests in 485 Lexington Avenue. If ultimately
approved, the transaction would demonstrate that the Midtown Manhattan
office market continues to stand as one of the world's top locations
and that investor interest is once again on the rise." Remember now? Ok. That deal just died. And with it died any hope that the "Midtown Manhattan office market continues to stand as one of the world's top locations," that REITs fairly priced, and that Bill Ackman's recent REIT book talking tour is anything but.

Our friends at dealbreaker have got some fun snippets from today's Citadel... apologies... RenTec all is good call. Explains the rerouting of all Pall Mall deliveries over the last week to East Setauket.

Demonstrating just how massive the ongoing quant (and market) dislocation is, the most recent performance numbers for Jim Simons monster RIEF fund, which is arguably one of the largest quant funds in the world with $100 billion in total capacity (comps being BGI, Getco and Highbridge, the last of which incidentally was responsible for the massive market spike on Thursday afternoon as it force-deleveraged through its owner JP Morgan), indicate that it is underperfoming the S&P by almost 17% Month To Date.

Is anyone else tired of hearing Larry Kudlow's claims that the "Ted Spread is down" (which we assume is the new way of saying a spread is tighter, or alternatively the CNBC grammer nazis could be on strike, as evidenced by such pearls from Trish Regan as "Retail consumer spending changing for the good") will be the reason for the next American golden age?

Is anyone else tired of hearing Larry Kudlow's claims that the "Ted Spread is down" (which we assume is the new way of saying a spread is tighter, or alternatively the CNBC grammer nazis could be on strike, as evidenced by such pearls from Trish Regan as "Retail consumer spending changing for the good") will be the reason for the next American golden age?