$$$Swiss Boards Command Top Pay as Members Refuse ‘Peanuts’ [Bloomberg]

$$$Tim Cook Speaks Up [BusinessWeek]

$$$QE was a ‘nonevent’: Billion-dollar bond manager [CNBC]

$$$Raymond James reports strongest recruiting year since 2009 [Reuters]

$$$A Memphis divorcé who left his wife a year ago broke into a dance at a Bank of America branch last week after paying the last of his alimony payments, an online video shows. "I am done!" he exclaims with his check in his right hand. "Thank you Jesus, I am free at last! Free at last! Wooo!" [NYDN]

$$$Regulators: Financial ‘whizzes’ turn out to be fiction [NYP]

$$$Jobless Claims Remain at Historically Low Levels [WSJ]

$$$Groom Drops Bride In Failed Attempt To Sweep Her Off Her Feet [HP]