So this Bloomberg story on suicidal coke addicts across the pond? Kind of a downer. And while it didn't really illuminate much re: the similarities between trading and having a drug problem that we didn't already know, or do anything...

A gaggle of employees in leveraged finance were told to leave at not come back at HSBC across the pond this afternoon. Severance is apparently 6 months. Asses in the US are so far intact (this morning) but "rumors are...

But not in the British sense of the word (oh yeah, bit of a linguist here). At left, we've got Alexandre Graham, one of the organizers of last Saturday's "Circle Line Party," a soiree held to commemorate the final hours...