$$$ House Approves $1T Budget Measure [Bloomberg]
$$$ Moody’s cuts Belgium ratings by 2 notches [Reuters]
$$$ US M&A activity defies European headwinds [FT]
$$$ Watch This Guy Utterly Destroy an Arcade Basketball Machine. It’s mesmerizing. [Kotaku]
$$$ Zynga falters in debut, sheds doubt on IPO market [Reuters]
$$$ Dollar usurps gold as safe haven [FT]
$$$ Sandy Weill’s Holiday Miracle: Buyer to Pay Full $88 M. for his 15 CPW penthouse [NYO]
$$$ Elsewhere, anonymous donors pay off Kmart layaway accounts [AP]
I know the new thing is not to post articles before noon but are we not even posting Opening Bells anymore?
Maybe 'Bess' was a pseudonym?
Gotta hand it to that Eddie, making non-shareholders happy $54 at a time.