Good morning. Remember Malboro? Only 10 years ago, it was still a top ten global brand…
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-06/rise-and-fall-worlds-10-most-valuable-brands

Best of the week the US government had to close its doors…

https://lukasdaalder.com/category/best-of-the-web/weekly-economics/

A possible (and rather negative) explanation as to why US investments are so low… (via @DiederickRaven)
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21587213-new-book-explains-why-business-investment-has-been-low-profits-prophet?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/profitsprophet

Debt ceiling. Who raised it, who refused it and what will happen now…?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304906704579115272975973210.html

…and how can we ‘Bypass the Debt Limit’

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/bypass-debt-limit-145429352.html

…and if the debt ceiling bores you, thank goodness we have reporting seasons!

http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2013/10/4/earnings-season-cometh-most-volatile-stocks-on-earnings.html

And things do not look too promising, so far: guidance is being lowered pretty aggressively

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303492504579113610117024386.html

It is not just households that get to be less equal: corporations seem to have joined the trend as well…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/03/its-not-just-people-corporations-are-getting-more-unequal-too/

Private Equity Buyouts: seen better days (or worse, depending on how you look at it)

http://soberlook.com/2013/10/q3-m-deal-volume-worst-since-2009.html

And one more for the Big Book of Bubbles: Tulpenwoerde (?)

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/10/economic-history

Nice one: most popular site per country (times internet population to make the world look weird) )via @jackneele)

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/age-of-internet-empires-one-map-with-each-countrys-favorite-website/280287/

And the schedules for the week ahead. Which also depends on how long government will be shut…
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/10/06/week-ahead-oct-7-13/
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/10/schedule-for-week-of-october-6th.html

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