Death to the MLEC and a delay to the ABX 08-01s

An update on two deaths foretold (neither of which you need an instrument as sophisticated as the Lowell refractor here to see):

• As suggested earlier, the MLEC is dead.
  

Confirmation from the WSJ is, here.

• And also as predicted, the ABX 08-01s aren't coming any time soon.
  

Finally, in the bleedingly obvious category, Bloomberg tells us that monoline wraps are less valued than they used to be.