Write-Offs: 10.05.12
$$$Lehman Units Settle $38 Billion in Claims [WSJ]
$$$ When will PE firms exit from all their "golden age" buyouts? [Fortune]
$$$Hedge funds love affair with leverage still on hiatus, for now [Reuters]
$$$Russian cyber gang said to be organizing a ‘mega heist’ of US banks [Qz]
$$$GE Capital Said to Near Systemic-Risk Label in Review [Bloomberg, related?]
$$$World’s Least Fun Person Removing One-of-a-Kind Slide From Apartment He Just Bought [DI]
$$$That's it for us today. We'll be off for the holiday Monday, see you back here on Tuesday!
$$$ A New York multi-strat hedge fund is looking for a junior collateral manager [DBCC]
$$$Moody’s warns on Portugal’s bailout plan [FT]
$$$ On jobs report, "what we might be seeing is an evolution of seasonal patterns — people starting school and leaving their summer gigs earlier in the summer — which has big implications for how the Labor Department digests and reports the monthly jobs data." [Economix]
$$$After JPMorgan, Hannam Said to Focus on Afghan Gold Mine [Bloomberg]
$$$'Price is Right' finds first male model in show history [NYP]
$$$Is Quebec's Stolen Maple Syrup Stashed in Stomachs? [Bloomberg]