10 Friday AM Reads

January 6, 2012 9:42am by Barry Ritholtz

My reads to start the day:

• Did Santorum Win Iowa? Could Typo Rewrite Caucus History? (KCCI)
• What if the 2009 bull market is still alive? (Market Watch)
• Congress Presses Rating Firms (WSJ)
• Stores Pay Price for Holiday Bargains as Profits Sag (Bloomberg)
• Yes, Virginia, Brokerage Firms Keeping Client Ripoff Provisions in Customer Agreements in the Wake of MF Global (Naked Capitalism) see also MF Global Inquiry Turns to Its Primary Regulator (Deal Book)
• London: Save the City! (Economist)
• Europe Adrift (I) (German Foreign Policy) see also Euro’s Resilience Is Tested (WSJ)
• Bauhaus: How A Movement Failed to Protect Its Name (Spiegel.de)
• Sorting Out an Avalanche of iPad Apps for the Best of 2011 (NYT) see also Apple’s Siri Feature Doubles IPhone Data Usage (Bloomberg)
• Americans buy record numbers of guns for Christmas (Telegraph)

What are you reading?

Monthly NFP Changes

Source: WSJ

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