$225B in three weeks?!

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Shirakawa Downplays Speculation for Joint Rate Cut

The best way for central banks to counter the global
financial crisis is to provide liquidity, Shirakawa said. The
BOJ pumped 23 trillion yen ($225 billion) into the financial
system over the past three weeks, the most in at least six years,
as banks stored cash on […]

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Hopefully the bonus pool Nomura (8604) (NMR: 6.83 -6.18%) set aside for ex-LB players in Europe produces different results.

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Nomura Said to Lose 100 Lehman Equity Employees to Competitors

Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) — Nomura Holdings Inc., Japan’s largest
investment bank, will lose roughly 60 percent of the Japanese
equity employees acquired when it purchased the […]

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