$$$U.S. confident its $5 billion S&P lawsuit was not retaliation [Reuters]
$$$Burger King in Talks to Buy Canadian Chain Tim Hortons [Bloomberg]
$$$Burger King deal could be a tax dodge whopper [CNBC]
$$$Ackman’s Pershing Square Makes $203 Million on Burger King [Bloomberg]
$$$A Rum Executive's Weight and Interval Workouts [WSJ]
$$$Finance gets its downward dog on [CNBC]
$$$Amazon Reaches a Deal for Twitch Streaming Service for Gaming [NYT]
Growth of fintech forecast to spur almost 2m banking job cuts; Bill Gross is pissed; Erin Callan speaks; Mississippi cheerleader admits she tried to join ISIS; and more.
$$$ Eurozone delays Athens rescue funds [FT] $$$ Loans to Banks Cool Debt Crisis [WSJ] $$$ European Leaders Challenged by Rise in Joblessness [NYT] $$$ An explanation of that Barclays tax trade, with cartoons [FTAV] $$$ Sofa King can no longer advertise prices that are "Sofa King low" in the UK [Language Log] $$$ Mitt Romney has worn a garbage bag for rain gear $$$ Fed's Dilemma: Markets Want Both Growth—And Stimulus [CNBC] $$$ Facebook seeking bigger credit line [Reuters] $$$ Unlike other types of complex financial transactions, insider trading prosecutions usually do not require jurors to develop sophisticated knowledge of the financial markets or securities valuation. There is not a statutory definition establishing its parameters, so it can be applied to a wide variety of transactions, and the crime does not have complicated requirements for proving a violation. Prosecutors are cracking down on insider trading because there's no law telling people what's illegal and unsophisticated jurors will convict [DealBook] $$$ Oprah's Book Club makes people read less [MR] $$$ The personal assistant of Paris Hilton's sister's hedge funder ex-husband Todd Meister was maybe dating him while she was stealing $1mm from him, or something like that [NYP]