Hot or Not : HID Financials

The Swiss Miss Bankers

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:11:34 +0000

Years ago, when Swiss Banks were Swiss banks, they used to charge non-Swiss people for the privilege of keeping their money in Swiss banks; a sort of negative interest.

Heralding The Tribune Jinks

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:22:31 +0000

LESS than six hours after Anorak pointed out that the Tribune Group only had themselves to blame for the inevitable consequences of the lunatically leveraged $13 billion buy-out last year, they filed for bankruptcy.

Lehman Brothers Beaten Again

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:39:53 +0000

YOU want to know how safe your money is?

Shoplifters Of The World Buck The Recession

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:39:06 +0000

It's at times like these when I realise that Britain is not what it was; the NYT reports on 'Silver-Haired Shoplifters On the Rise In Japan' and what are we Brits doing to catch up with our Asian counterparts?

VAT Fraud And Market Dumbness

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:10:09 +0000

IT'S always nice to see the faint glimmerings of comprehension in the old media when it comes to justifying their massive expenditure on business and financial journalists, but I'm disappointed in so many of them missing the blindingly obvious on the 2.5 % VAT reduction.

Oil Will Be Back

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:53:02 +0000

VERY soon the oil in your car's engine will be worth more than the car. And this is not to say that the oil prices are going up faster than a Spanish housing estate.

Obama Bounces Like A Dead Bush

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:37:15 +0000

MAKING money in the credit crunch: Going long on Obamas.

THIS morning the FTSE experience its biggest ever tenth-of-a-second fall. Fact!

Fiddling Big Pharma

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:00:17 +0000

A little off topic, but here's one about big pharma, George Bush and a one-armed violinist:

I don't really have it in for the US Food and Drug Administration, one of the many failed regulators of the Bush/Blair era, but they are in the news once more as oral arguments on Wyeth v. Levine are heard in the US Supreme Court.

Lloyds TSB Calls House

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:57:26 +0000

THERE is a rumour sweeping the City of London that Business Secretary Peter Mandelson might rubber-stamp the Lloyds TSB HBOS merger deal creating Britain's largest bank as early as today.

Bet On The Unsound Pound

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:31:38 +0000

WANT to know how to profit from the weak pound?

And is it ever weak. The pound was valued at $1.55 yesterday after being close to $2 for two years.

School For Bankers

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:51:46 +0000

ONE of the nastier sides of the way the titans of Wall St shafted anyone in sight is emerging; investigative reporters at Bloomberg have put together the sort of story which is so nasty that people are refusing to return their calls.

JP Morgan: A Manga Romance

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:11:23 +0000

We've been closely following this tragedy as it unfolded; the engagement that was broken off, the marriage that was never consummated, but last week we thought that finally they would tie the knot.

Old Money Knows Where To Go

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:22:49 +0000

ELDERLY (that seems to be 50 plus this week) Euro shakers and movers are scrambling to shift their money and interests around today. Not quite being able to make up their befuddled, creaking, ageing minds.

Please Give Generously

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:15:43 +0000

DEAR TRADEFAIR PLAYER:

I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE.

Betting On Another FTSE Crisis

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:39:44 +0000

DID you hear the news? That's right, today no bank went bust. It's just like the 1950s all over again.

Credit due. Best take credit where you can get it.