Lex: notes from the past 24 hours
Financial Times - Lex


Facebook: Zucker-punch
A nine-figure valuation on a company that made less than $4bn in sales last year implies stratospheric growth for years

Chinese wine
Competition is getting tough in world?s fifth biggest wine market as domestic companies battle foreign brands

Eurozone: Greek woes
The past five days may be seen as the point when everybody realised that there was a clear path towards a eurozone break-up

Football and money
Any team that reaches the lofty heights of the final of the world?s most exacting football competition deserves to be there

JP Morgan reaction: pay clawbacks
If clawbacks are employed, patforwards should be too ? and indeed some consultancies do this already

US cable: still working
They face limited competition, have high and stable margins, and spew out cash ? yet they are still made light of

HSBC: losing weight is hard
Praise is due the UK bank for a good start to shedding up to $55bn in risk-weighted assets, but investors should not get ahead of themselves

Rating agency reform: think again
The suggestion is that information disclosed to the big agencies should be restricted, making it easier for new entrants to compete in the rating business

3i: the travails of private equity
If the new CEO cannot solve the UK private equity group?s problems, liquidation seems desirable

Vedanta: all hat and no rabbit
Upbeat view is that its restructuring ? after an acquisition-led, debt-juggling growth phase ? suggests company is more alert to concerns

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