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$$$ Banks Near $25 Billion Pact on Foreclosure Probe [WSJ]
$$$ Brokers suspended in Libor inquiry [FT]
$$$ Greek Party Leaders Fail to Agree on Bailout Package [CNBC]
$$$ Debt investors regain appetite for Europe’s periphery [FT]
$$$ Goldman Wins Auction for A.I.G. Assets [DealBook]
$$$ Youth Hockey Coach Makes Sick Yo Momma Burn [Deadspin]
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$$$ Greece misses bail-out deadline [FT]
$$$ Europe Bank Eases Way to Greek Deal [WSJ]
$$$ Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock, and three other board members, resigned [AllThingsD]
$$$ Glencore and Xstrata face blocking threat [FT]
$$$ Morgan Stanley,Goldman Clarify Clawback Policies [WSJ]
$$$ Prosecutors Broaden Charges in Insider Case [WSJ]
$$$ “A New York man who was chased away by a naked resident from the Greenwich home he burglarized was sentenced Monday in state Superior Court.” [Greenwich Time]
$$$ If your firm reads your emails and frowns upon swear words may we suggest “snozzcumber“? [Lists of Note]
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$$$ Greece bail-out funds could be split [FT]
$$$ Greece to Eliminate 15,000 Government Jobs [NYT]
$$$ Stock gains turn hedge fund losers into winners [Reuters]
$$$ Some Europe Banks Shun ECB Loans [WSJ]
$$$ Hedge Fund Manager Releases Sex Tape And Sues Beauty Queen For Kidnap And Torture [BI]
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$$$ Bernanke Says He Won’t Trade Inflation Goal for More Job Growth [Bloomberg]
$$$ Xstrata in Merger Talks With Glencore [WSJ]
$$$ Facebook millionaires eye new exploits [FT]
$$$ Mark Zuckerberg’s exploits could involve going $520,919,997 into debt to qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit [NetNet / John Carney]
$$$ A billionaire polo mogul who ran someone over while driving his Bentley drunk adopted his girlfriend to shield his assets from a lawsuit [NYP]
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$$$ Treasury may let investors pay to lend to U.S. government [Reuters]
$$$ Deutsche Börse-NYSE merger blocked [FT]
$$$ Falcone Brawls With Grassley Over LightSquared [DealBook]
$$$ Tepper protégé forges new fund [AR]
$$$ Bloomberg restaurant critic Ryan Sutton: “I have a pretty high-end clientele, but no one asks me, ‘What’s the most expensive restaurant in New York and how can I spend more money there?’” Get to work on that. [IBTimes]
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$$$ Facebook readies to file US$5bn IPO, could grow [IFR]
$$$ Amazon Profit Beats, But Revenue Falls Short; Stock Slides [CNBC]
$$$ EU Targets Bank Bonuses That Fly in the Face of ‘Morality’ [Bloomberg]
$$$ Gupta Faces New Charges in Insider Trading Case [DealBook]
$$$ Einhorn Case Highlights Britain’s Broader Definition of Insider Trading [DealBook]
$$$ Colbert super PAC reports $1 million in donations [CBS]
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$$$ Victory for Merkel over fiscal treaty [FT]
$$$ Fed Survey Finds Banks Still Cautious to Lend [WSJ]
$$$ Insider Jury May Hear From a Top Aide at Berkshire [DealBook]
$$$ Forget the big bonuses; a pay squeeze is coming [FT]
$$$ “At his first rally of the morning, Newt Gingrich rolled out a new attack line: Mitt Romney took kosher food away from elderly Jewish people.” [Politico via DI]
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$$$ Citi to Cut Bonuses in Investment Bank About 30% [Bloomberg]
$$$ Fitch Cuts Italian, Spanish Ratings [Bloomberg]
$$$ Goldman’s Blankfein gets stock from prior award [MarketWatch]
$$$ EU avoided ‘major, major credit crunch’ [FT]
$$$ Proposed Mortgage Deal Said to Be Limited to Foreclosures [Bloomberg]
$$$ Every self-important anonymous jerk who can’t handle rejection is supposedly a “hedge fund manager” [Gawker]
$$$ Except this guy: Jilted City banker ‘bought crossbows and gun and disguised himself as a doctor to launch deadly attack on lover who spurned him’ [Daily Mail via BI]
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$$$ Cameron rebukes euro leaders over crisis [FT]
$$$ BofA to Limit Cash Bonuses for Bankers, Traders [Bloomberg]
$$$ Bank of America: The turnaround challenge of the century [Term Sheet]
$$$ How Allen Stanford kept the SEC at bay [Reuters]
$$$ In case you were wondering: Poll Shows Dropping Support for Paterno Firing [AP]
$$$ Packages containing 40lbs of cocaine were found at UN headquarters [NYP]
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$$$ Fed Expects Low Rates Through 2014 [WSJ]
$$$ IMF Warns of Hit to Creditors on Greece Deal [WSJ]
$$$ U.S. Banks Face Pressure on Margins [Bloomberg]
$$$ “Allen Stanford, the Texas banker accused of running a $7bn Ponzi scheme, changed the numbers in one of his annual reports after they failed to add up, a former employee testified on Wednesday.” [FT]
$$$ People are better at thinking outside the box when there’s a big box in the room and they stand outside of it. [Ideas Market]
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$$$ Apple returns to form, blows Street targets away [Reuters]
$$$ ECB under pressure over Greek bond hit [FT]
$$$ At BofA, Moynihan Grapples With Past [WSJ]
$$$ Obama Hosting Buffett’s Secretary in First Lady’s Box for Speech [Bloomberg]
$$$ Cop: Circumcision proves I didn’t flash woman [NYP]
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