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smug@nib.com We’re the best! Move over, the EIB...look who can price their dollar benchmark 1bp tighter than the kings of the SSA market. It’s us. Na na na na na na....
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GoogleEarth@googlemail.com We apologise to users of GoogleEarth who tried to locate satellite shots of Mauritius this week. The large red hairless splodge located over the island — around where the Royal Palm resort should be — is not a technical error on our part.
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Bond Bitch: How much of this do I have to write, Ed? It’s August and let’s face it, the majority of our readers are out to lunch or wearing fancy flip flops on a beach.
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boywonder From the people who brought you the online virtual paper plane flying game comes this week’s Top Way to Waste Time in August.
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Eurohack Asbo certainly knows how to throw a party. Daiwa’s press do on Tuesday at Molloy’s in Gresham Street was a two day hangover affair. Just ask the pharmacist near EuroWeek offices and ask how many boxes of Nurofen they sold on Wednesday. Great fun, though, and well worth the pain.
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talentscout@tourdefrance We had a tip-off about some cycling event this week and thought we’d take a look. I have to say, Sofie Borgström, the blond Swedish bombshell from Goldman Sachs — Lance Armstrong she ain’t.
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rattusjudas@abnamrus.com And another rat leaves the ABN Amro ship. Paul Johnson, otherwise known as Tubbs, is going back to the mother ship RBC. human.resources@abn.com All this paperwork for nothing. This Paul character had only been with us with 11 months. Talk about legging it at the first opportunity. All I seem to be doing these days is exit interviews.
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Jeff Cougar Jeez — you Europeans really know how to make someone feel welcome. Your lousy government bond fleamarket is bad enough, with all its weedy little illiquid bonds and foreign rules.
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borrower@rehab.com Gosh, what a week this has been! I might have to do a Lindsay Lohan and go into the Priory after three days of non-stop boozing, eating, and meetings at the Euromoney Forum.
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Hernando.Llewellyn@RSPCA.ar We have reports that a certain Mr Leo-Hendrick Greve was shooting doves on his holidays in Argentina last week. So could the English RSPCA please get in touch with us as this is cruelty to the poor, beautiful, innocent and international symbol of peace.