Write-Offs: 11.13.14

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$$$Buffett Set to Save More Than $1 Billion on Taxes in Swap [Bloomberg]

$$$Pimco flagship fund slightly reduces U.S. government holdings in October [Reuters]

$$$Jobless Claims Extend Longest Sub-300,000 Stretch Since 2000 [WSJ]

$$$Malcolm Gladwell: 'Football Is a Moral Abomination' [Bloomberg]

$$$Power Wheels spoofs McConaughey Lincoln ad [UPI]

$$$Alibaba Seeking $8 Billion in First U.S. Bond Sale [Reuters]

$$$Hedge Fund Lonestar Capital to Shut Down [WSJ]

$$$Police hunt big cat, 'probably tiger', on loose near Disneyland Paris [Reuters]

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The Man Accused of Spoofing Some of the World's Biggest Futures Exchanges; Pimco assets stabilize; "Best car wash ever features LED light show"; and more,

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Yellen just about ready to do this; Alleged spoofers charged; JPM buries whale; "Pennsylvania Officials Stumped Why Town Smelled Like Cat Pee"; and more.

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BofA sees big things for the year 2025; Russia; High-speed trading in peril; "$17,500,000 underground bunker for sale in Georgia"; and more.

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$2.15 billion fine for Deutsche; RBC is starting an investment bank in Paris; Dalio, Bernanke and Summers walk into a bar...; "Another woman yelled out her window, ‘Shut your f--ing windows you wh*re!’” the complainant added; and more.

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$$$ Judge Approves Payout to MF Global Customers $$$ Dell Buyout Deal Could Come as Soon as Monday [Reuters] $$$ US banks squeezed as mortgage profits hit [FT] $$$ High Drama at CFTC: The Battle Over Swaps and Futures [BBW] $$$ UBS Set to Classify Bond-Buying Clients as 'Aggressive' Investors [FBN] $$$ "We were served water, at exactly the right cool temperature, yet without ice cubes"; also Bill Gates was there [MR] $$$ Aston Martin in Barn With Mouse Nest May Fetch $300,000 [Bloomberg] $$$ A highly respected bank is looking for a senior associate and a VP/director to originate, structure, and market credit-based structured products in New York [DBCC] $$$ SNS Nationalized in Netherlands After Real Estate Losses [Bloomberg] $$$ Swap mis-sellingand the dark heart of the City [Telegraph] $$$ Banks slow crisis money repayment to ECB [Reuters] $$$ Twitter nears $10 billion valuation [Fortune] $$$ Sociology of the evolution of electronic trading [Jayanth R. Varma] $$$ Half of students in Harvard cheating scandal required to withdraw from the college [Boston.com]

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