Welcome back loan market. We hope everyone enjoyed their short week, which some decided to make an even shorter week by sneaking out for some tennis. For those of you in which that trip marked your first foray into Queens, we hope you survived and understand you will not be taking the 7 train again until next September or that is, unless the Mets make it into the World Series and your corporate boxes make you the biggest Mets fan in the world...And here's some good news for all you bankers out there. No more need to worry about tripping and falling as you wander to your Town Cars late at night. Research In Motion is set to release its newest offering, the BlackBerry Pearl, according to news reports, which is chock full of features including a 240-by-260-pixel color screen that doubles as a flashlight. So now you can respond to emails in the pitch black, what will they think of next?...With President Bush set to nominate Robert Steel, a Goldman Sachs exec., to the position of Treasury undersecretary for domestic finance, one is left to wonder: Between Cabinet hires and Barclays Capital hires, who is left at Goldman?...Ford Motor's employees must be relieved now that William Clay Ford Jr. is giving up his role as chief executive and handing it over to Alan Mulally, a Boeing Co. exec. With the airline industry doing so well, they should have nothing to worry about...And cheers to Monica Wong, head of HSBC's private banking business in Asia, who got her HK$62 million (US$8 million) plus interest back for dance lessons she never received. She had agreed to pay HK$120 million for unlimited private lessons and competitions until 2012, according to Reuters. And to secure the deal, she placed a HK$62 million deposit, but the lessons ended after one of her teachers called her a "lazy cow." We just want to know if she'll be tangoing or fox trotting all the way to the bank?
