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Byron Wein was senior investment strategist at Morgan Stanley until 2005, when he left to join Pequot Capital Management, a hedge fund in Westport, Conn. Each December, Wein forecasts 10 possible surprises for the year ahead, events that may not be on Wall Street's radar but nevertheless have good chance of occurring. His prescience on market issues has won him a wide following. In an interview with TIME contributing editor John Curran, Wein reviews his 2009 list and opines on the stock market's prospects...
...China Investment Corp. poured $3 billion into Blackstone in return for a 10% stake in the New York City - based private-equity firm, just before the bottom fell out of U.S. debt and equity markets. That deal was followed by a $5 billion purchase of a 9.9% stake in Morgan Stanley, then in the early throes of the credit crisis. Morgan Stanley's share price has since fallen by more than half...
...heart, this is a detective story: Who killed Eddie Blake (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a.k.a. the Comedian? The main sleuth is Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), whose shifting-inkblot mask ill conceals a violent temper and a questing spirit. Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup) is not much help, preoccupied as he is with helping another superhero, Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), in a secret experiment that may save the world or put a big hole in it. Dr. M. has also paid scant heed to his girlfriend Laurie (Malin Akerman), a.k.a. Silk Spectre II, who's ready to fall into the arms of nerdy...
...than its share of long, clumsy scrawls. The budding romance between Dan and Laurie is tepidly drawn and wanly performed; those who've seen 300 know Snyder is in no way an actor's director. (The two self-starters are Haley, who does right by his grizzled role, and Morgan, a Robert Downey Jr. knockoff who chews the scenery and his stogie with equal aplomb.) And while the climax is unusual in a comic-book movie--bad guy does very bad thing, then escapes his comeuppance by persuading folks that what he's done is really kind of a good...
Driving Miss Crazy: MORGAN FREEMAN sued by passenger over auto crash...