$$$ Google Shares Fall on Premature Earnings [WSJ]

$$$ Google and the send button … [footnoted]

$$$ “To be fair, we released our earnings yesterday afternoon on Google Plus.” [@PendingLarry via Deal Journal]

$$$ Smallest Stock Traders Hardest Hit as Commissions Decline [Bloomberg]

$$$ Blackstone Swings to Profit of $622 Million in 3rd Quarter [DealBook]

$$$ “Americans who say they work 75 hours a week tend to be exaggerating by 25 hours.” [Qz]

$$$ BlackRock is looking for a Sales Training Program Manager for their iShares division in San Francisco [DBCC]

$$$ Sprint Nextel assumes majority stake in Clearwire [Reuters]

$$$ In Insider Trading Case, Drawing In David Ganek [DealBook]

$$$ Ex-GE Bankers Jailed in Rigged Muni Bond Case [CNBC]

$$$ William Cohan on Greg Smith: “He conned Grand Central Publishing, which paid him a reported $1.5 million for his ‘tell-all’ book about how the culture at Goldman Sachs had deteriorated during his 12-year tenure into something he no longer recognized, when really Goldman has always been a stinging scorpion. (Disclosure: my wife is the editor-in-chief of Grand Central Publishing, although she had nothing to do with editing Smith’s book, and neither of us has read it.)” [Bloomberg]

$$$ Republicans Pulling Money Out of Soup Kitchen Where Paul Ryan Pretended to Wash Dishes [DI]