Telegraph Business:
It is human nature to look for patterns. They are how people make sense of the world and it would be unusual if investors differed in this regard from anyone else. (Read More)
Financial Times:
The top three US credit ratings agencies are accused of 'wreaking havoc' on US financial markets by providing inflated ratings and costing state funds hundreds of millions of dollars. (Read More)
Bloomberg:
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Nick Calamos, chief investment officer of Calamos Asset Management who helps run the Calamos Convertible Fund, and Dan Brady, options trader at Entropy Capital LLC, talk with Bloomberg's Matt Miller about U.S. stock and bond markets and the economy. (Source: Bloomberg). (Read More)
Bloomberg:
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Deborah Cunningham, chief investment officer for taxable money markets at Federated Investors Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Matt Miller about Federal Reserve and European Central Bank monetary policy and the outlook for global interest rates. Cunningham also discusses the Fed's consideration of the use (Read More)
Bloomberg:
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Kevin Hassett, director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and a Bloomberg News columnist, talks with Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton about a Republican lawmaker's call for U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to resign. Hassett also discusses the potential impact of U.S. ta (Read More)
FT.com - World, Europe:
Football scandals had seemed to be increasing even before Friday's news of what Uefa, the sport's governing body in Europe, called "without a doubt the biggest fraud scandal to ever hit European football". (Read More)
FT.com - Capital Markets News and Data:
Bank of America plans to sell $460m of commercial mortgage bonds backed by properties owned by Fortress Investment Group as this battered market begins to show signs of life, people familiar with the deal said. (Read More)
Financial Times:
Markets have signalled high hopes in the 'billion-dollar' Dutchman who will lead the British high-street retailer Marks and Spencer. (Read More)
Times Online:
Was it worth the wait? The Digital Economy Bill has finally been drafted after two Digital Britain documents, umpteen Ofcom reviews, endless news stories and a mounting sense of cluelessness. What once was expected to be a major review of media and communications policy has come down to a fairly short Bill, which has only a (Read More)
Financial Times:
The move comes after the UK corner-shop payments processor said its Romanian operation, the group's first foray into European markets, would break even next year. (Read More)
Financial Times:
Global Markets Overview: Talk that the dollar could be near its nadir leads to a growing sense of caution ahead of what could be a pivotal trading session in Europe. (Read More)
World News from Times Online:
Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing around 60 people to sell their fat on the blackmarket for cosmetic use in Europe, authorities say. (Read More)
Bloomberg:
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Douglas Elliott, a fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington and a former investment banker, talks with Bloomberg Television about the proposed overhaul of U.S. financial regulation. (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg). (Read More)
Bloomberg:
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Michele Steele reports on the performance of the U.S. equity market today. U.S. stocks extended a global drop as concern grew that the rally has outpaced the prospects for economic growth. The yen and the dollar strengthened, oil tumbled and yields on Treasury three-month bills turned nega (Read More)
Financial Times:
Emerging markets fail to compensate for decline in beer sales in the developed world for world's second-largest brewer, but UK bucks the trend. (Read More)