Potpourri

I'd like to pretend this week's going to be lively and entertaining for market observers, but I'm afraid that'd be wishful thinking. To present wishful thinking as the most likely course of events is to tell a lie. Basically. And I don't lie. So, bad news everybody: This week's probably going to be dull and tedious. There's exactly nothing on the docket save a Bank of England meeting, and in some respects that's worse than nothing. (The MPC watchers among you, if there are any, should get a ch