$$$Argentina Found in Contempt of U.S. Court in Bond Dispute [Bloomberg]
$$$Pimco deletes all Bill Gross tweets [BI]
$$$Bond Traders Are Fading Away [BusinessWeek]
$$$New Pimco chiefs aim to calm waters [NYP]
$$$Feds: NYC Mailman Hoarded 40,000 Pieces Of Undelivered Mail In His Home, Car, Locker [TSG]
$$$Icahn weighs $100M bid for Taj Mahal; refutes union [AP]
$$$Bank of America Settles S.E.C. Case on $4 Billion Accounting Error [Dealbook]
Greece still thinks it has a chance; Apple is the new Pimco; Uber banned in the Hamptons; "Finally, a knife that toasts bread as it slices"; and more.
$$$ Fed Is 'Playing a Game With Us:' Pimco's Gross [CNBC] $$$ Bundesbank steps up pressure on Draghi [FT] $$$ Broker departures accelerate at Merrill Lynch [Reuters] $$$ The head of credit trading at Credit Suisse has been fined £210,000 for disclosing confidential information about a forthcoming €2.5bn bond issue after inviting a UK fund manager to “play charades” and guess the identity of the issuer. Nicholas Kyprios encouraged a fund manager who had been invited by Credit Suisse to a roadshow in November 2009 for an unnamed company to guess the issuer, using phrases like “you’re getting warmer”, the Financial Services Authority said. [FT] $$$ How would you like to be a Fixed Income Business Management Analyst for BlackRock in New York? [DBCC] $$$ Goldman Hires a New P.R. Chief $$$ Euro Zone Split over Financial Transaction Tax [Der Spiegel] $$$ Fred Wilpon's lawyers have planned a whole range of distractions for their Madoff trial [WSJ, related] $$$ Robert Lacoursiere, the Paulson & Co. partner who oversaw the $23 billion hedge fund’s team of banking analysts, quit last week after four years to start his own fund, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. [Bloomberg] $$$ Manhattan madam's 'sidekick' turns herself in, released on $100K bail [NYP]
