Finance Links

Elsewhere on Friday,

- When emerging markets emerge.

- Tinker, tailor, soldier, hedge fund manager.

- Avoid Irish banking’s example, America.

- More on how to shut banks down properly….

Germany takes its fear of financial speculators to new heights by suggesting
it may deploy spies to monitor investors who target currencies.

How refreshing.

A commodity hedge fund on Wednesday stunned metal investors not by denying forced liquidations; but rather by its oddly honest account of how badly it had done…

Angela Merkel challenged Gordon Brown on Wednesday to drop his objections to European regulation of the hedge fund and private equity industry. The German chancellor called for…

Strange but true. One of the highest-yielders in the FTSE 100 is Man Group. Shares in the struggling hedge fund manager offer a prospective dividend yield of almost 12 per cent (in dollar terms)….

The latest news on: Miners, Gold, Hedge funds, Bank

Elsewhere on Wednesday,

- Post-Lehman repos leave a lingering smell.

- Revaluation won’t make China’s imbalances go away.

- Flight of the Bumblebee: or, Japan’s debts….

London’s hedge fund and private equity industry won a last-minute reprieve from contentious new European regulations on Tuesday, after Gordon Brown pleaded that the issue be…

A dramatic eleventh-hour intervention by Gordon Brown saw controversial EU
legislation to curb the powers of hedge funds dropped from the agenda of a
top finance ministers meeting on Tuesday.

A dramatic eleventh-hour intervention by Gordon Brown saw controversial EU
legislation to curb the powers of hedge funds dropped from the agenda of a
top finance ministers meeting on Tuesday.