• 19 Jun 2009 at 5:25 PM

Write-Offs: 06.19.09

By Bess Levin

$$$ Law firm Wachtell weighs in on possible short selling rules in letter to the SEC. “Selling a stock short in combination with the purchase of such a swap — tied to a company’s ability to pay its debt — can send a false signal into the marketplace,” the letter said. And as everyone knows, market prices are always accurate, right? Oh, yeah…. [Law360]
$$$ JPMorgan expects $1.1 billion Q2 charge after TARP [Reuters]
$$$ Marc Dreier‘s Homes Underperform on the Block [Curbed]
$$$ Bank of America done with Merrill’ bull [The Deal]

Comments (30)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | June 19, 2009 at 5:41 PM

    I love Bess but I miss EP.
    – Snake Plissken

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | June 19, 2009 at 5:45 PM

    1, agreed.

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | June 19, 2009 at 5:54 PM

    write-office?

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | June 19, 2009 at 6:56 PM

    @1 & @2
    Here, a little fix for you:
    http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/06/open-letter-to-secretary-of-department.html

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | June 19, 2009 at 7:53 PM

    Greg = Male EP (right down to the crappy pictures and shameless cut-and-paste of boring articles between dotted lines)

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | June 19, 2009 at 9:45 PM

    @1- me too! disclosure: I love writers completely lacking in humor whatsoever (but who think they’re ripping roaring hilarious) and make us suffer through their conspiracy theories and wingnut garbage.

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | June 19, 2009 at 9:58 PM

    Strip clubs feel the pinch
    http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Extra/strip-clubs-feel-the-pinch.aspx

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | June 19, 2009 at 10:28 PM

    EP is too busy letting me pound her in the ass to post. Sorry.

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | June 19, 2009 at 10:35 PM

    @8- and also posting painful shit under her 948th personality, Marla Singer.

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | June 19, 2009 at 11:24 PM

    too many words

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | June 20, 2009 at 3:35 AM

    6,
    Sorry she doesn’t seem interested in catering to the intellectually neutered. Not all of DB’s core audience is 2nd year analysts playing online poker all day with their severance.
    By the way, any information regarding numbers for your brethren still holding jobs?

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | June 20, 2009 at 7:04 AM

    11 = ep

  13. 13
    Posted by guest | June 20, 2009 at 11:47 AM

    @11- *HUG*
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drOzZ2hYFHI&feature=channel
    SPODE

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | June 20, 2009 at 12:08 PM

    @11
    Sounds like you got a real job after all. You hate us, we hate you back.

  15. 15
    Posted by guest | June 20, 2009 at 1:37 PM

    EP, you are now hated as much as Greg. If I see you on the street, I will promptly kick you square in the fupa.

  16. 16
    Posted by Anal_yst | June 20, 2009 at 1:55 PM

    @15
    EP would likely kick your ass

  17. 17
    Posted by guest | June 20, 2009 at 3:04 PM

    I am a hedge fund manager in Stamford. What is a lawyer?

  18. 18
    Posted by guest | June 20, 2009 at 5:53 PM

    I am a jefferies analyst, what is fupa?

  19. 19
    Posted by guest | June 20, 2009 at 11:24 PM

    TGFD’s favorite video of one of my favorite songs. TGFD likes watching it when I feel like f’n something up.
    I watched it a lot after the trailer blew up. Loud is good too.
    Even better than Twisted Sister’s original.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC7IO2irbwQ
    The Guy from Delaware

  20. 20
    Posted by guest | June 21, 2009 at 1:19 PM

    I’m developing a fetish for women in designer sunglasses who are holding a brick and rioting. Reminds me of Bess; cute little cup cake baked by the Devil who will F you up six ways from Sunday.
    I’m ready to come home Bess. Stop on by the Bodega for a purple drink and a pizza bagel, we can talk.
    SPODE

  21. 21
    Posted by guest | June 21, 2009 at 4:18 PM

    Nice job being on top of the Jobs story.

  22. 22
    Posted by wcburrs87 | June 21, 2009 at 5:03 PM

    Forza Azzuri!

  23. 23
    Posted by guest | June 21, 2009 at 6:24 PM

    @21 go fuck yourself
    -greg michaels

  24. 24
    Posted by guest | June 21, 2009 at 6:56 PM

    @22 Screw the Azzuri….USA baby!

  25. 25
    Posted by guest | June 21, 2009 at 8:28 PM

    @21 nice job considering the fact that DB doesn’t post on weekends and that story came out friday night.

  26. 26
    Posted by guest | June 21, 2009 at 10:56 PM

    some of these iranian girls are hot

  27. 27
    Posted by guest | June 22, 2009 at 12:16 AM

    What’s going on at UBS? I heard everyone’s working late the whole weekend due to the Swiss-IRS tax evasion…Supposedly the whole bank is on the line.

  28. 28
    Posted by guest | June 22, 2009 at 12:37 AM

    @21 what does apple have to do with dealbreaker?

  29. 29
    Posted by guest | June 22, 2009 at 12:41 AM

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLL67013220090621

  30. 30
    Posted by guest | June 22, 2009 at 9:50 AM

    because there’s such thing as an accurate market price…right?

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