We will release the full list of named recipients once we get it, but here is what we now for now, via BBG and CNN:
- EMPLOYEES AT GOLDMAN SACHS, BARCLAYS, JP MORGAN, CITI, NOMURA, UBS, HSBC RECEIVED FED MINUTES EARLY YESTERDAY
- MOST OF THE BANK EMPLOYEES APPEAR TO WORK IN GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS (Lobbies)
- ABA, SIFMA, SENATE STAFFERS RECEIVED FED MINUTES EARLY
- FED NAMES 154 RECIPIENTS OF EARLY RELEASE OF FOMC MINUTES
- FED MINUTES SENT EARLY TO BANKS, LAW FIRMS, PRIVATE EQUITY
- FED EARLIER SAID RELEASE WENT MAINLY TO CONGRESS, TRADE GROUPS
- NONE OF THE PEOPLE ON THE LIST ALERTED THE FED THAT THEY RECEIVED NONPUBLIC INFO A DAY EARLY
In other words: absolutely everyone who trades risk assets for a living!
Of course, once the lobby workers got the list, they promptly forwarded it into the gaping maw of the mothership which pays the salaries and bonuses.
Naturally, to say that nobody traded once getting this material, non-public information, is about as credible as saying that nobody traded on the material, non-public information leaked by Tim Geithner in August 2007 when he informed the banks one day in advance of a critical Fed decision. Oh wait:
We will provide the full list of people who manipulate and cheat the market shortly, but for now we are curious to see how the Fed will spin that EVERYONE got an advance notice of its minutes a day in advance without this becoming a material issue with the regulators, and just how many billions in hush money it will take to push this all under the rug.