If you start(up) me up

Music began with the heartbeat. Every one of us has rhythm, every moment of our lives, that heart beating, whilst time cascades on, a visitor whose sojourn among us is briefer than any of us would like. And so, as our heart beats on, through the music, we hear our heart whispering thoughts and...

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Lehman Brother can you spare a yard?

It has been six years ago this week, when I could say that green was our colour. It wasn’t a bright green, but a dark, somewhat dignified green, like the shade which adorned British racing cars for much of the twentieth century. It was the green of the leaves of Californian redwoods, standing in...

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Great Scot! Vol over the Scotland vote

For much of the summer the market had largely been looking at the Scotland referendum as a relatively low risk event. Common wisdom was that the vote would likely be "no". What binds is more than what separates? Perhaps another factor was simply that it was just too far away for the market, as...

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I heard the news (analytics data) today

It's perhaps a clichéd question to ask what is your favourite Beatles song? Ask most people and they'll reel off one of the well known tracks. Surely, "Yesterday" is one of these. Perhaps "Ticket To Ride" with that infectious guitar riff. Perhaps "Hey Jude", the piano chords waltzing in the background...

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