Pre-Marketing 5.3.11

Posted by Dan Primack

May 3, 2011 7:43 am

That's a "Maple Baked Frescuit"

* Sarah Lynch: Headaches at the SEC's think tank

* Priming the pump: Facebook hopes investors flock to today's RenRen IPO

* Bill Saporito: Vulture investors swoop in on "broken" condominium projects

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower, London opens strong, European shares slip on miners and the Nikkei edges higher.

* Ezra Klein: The real cost of Osama bin Laden

* Sarah Butcher: Has Jefferies hired too many people in its front office?

* David Kesmodel: The bitter culture clash between Budweiser and InBev

* Mark DeCambre: Lloyd Blankfein is staying put for at least the next two years

* John Carney: Are flight attendants rebelling against charging customers for peanuts?

* From the Valley: Your CEO is here, but your company is on the other side of the Atlantic

* Julian Assange: Facebook "is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented."

* Hand over your whistle: Yandex, a Russian search engine that last week filed to go public on the Nasdaq, turns over information on an anti-corruption blogger to Russian authorities.

* Tweet of the Day: @BillGross "Last bubble was about new markets/opportunities. This bubble is about scale, unbelievable scale." Geoff Yang, Redpoint @ #GC2011

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