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To ring-fence the ECB in Greece… or not - FT Alphaville (blog)
“The ECB's holding will be the story to watch in the next few months,” a person close to bondholders said. …You potentially have a legally, and politically, explosive precedent. All of it centred around the ECB's (technically, the Eurosystem's) ...
Come back, sovereign feedback loop! - FT Alphaville (blog)
Italy and Portugal, among other European governments, are leaning on their banks to continue buying—or at least to stop selling—government bonds, according to people familiar with the matter. The report quotes an unnamed Italian banker and another ...
TPG makes it fifteen for Yahoo - FT Alphaville (blog)
The private equity firm TPG Capital has signed a nondisclosure agreement with Yahoo, making it one of the first potential suitors to begin formal due diligence work on the company, which is weighing a sale, people briefed on the matter told DealBook on ...
Meanwhile, in Chinese gyms - FT Alphaville (blog)
A spokesman for Nirvana who declined to give his name told China Daily he did not want to comment on the recent closures. However, shortly after Nirvana ...
Another squall in the periphery - FT Alphaville (blog)
... forcing the government to implement further spending cuts to bring its fiscal reforms back on track, a senior government official said Thursday. ...
More intrigue in the wonderful world of potash - FT Alphaville (blog)
The report quoted a person close to the situation saying Sinochem's move is preliminary and “doesn't mean the Chinese company has decided to make a ...
The AIG e-mails, or, 250000 pages of bail-out oddity - FT Alphaville (blog)
But two people with direct knowledge of the negotiations between AIG and the banks, who requested anonymity because the talks were confidential, ...