If FTSE is above 6000 at the time of the option expiry calls at 5800 or 5900 will offer the maximum payout.

FORBES: Optional Opportunity

Is there, is there in that situation, are you saying that in that situation that it is possible that at the end of the expiry of seven days or whatever, it is actually possible that Mr Sharon will declare all out war against, against you?

BBC: News | BREAKFAST WITH FROST | Saeb Erekaet, Palestinian Chief Negotiator

That leaves one, rather distant, hope: that, in the lame-duck period between the election and the next Congress, prompted by the imminent expiry of George Bush's tax cuts at the beginning of 2013, America's politicians will sit down and finally hammer out the grand bargain the country so desperately needs, with the tax increases delayed in exchange for sensible reforms to spending and the tax code.

ECONOMIST: America��s fragile recovery

In any case, throwing out the suit helps remove the worst-case scenario for Pfizer, and makes it more likely that the Lipitor patent expiry could actually lead to an upside earnings surprise at the end of the year, as detailed here.

FORBES: Judge Tosses Mylan Lipitor Suit, Misses The Point

She has an eye for ephemera at the edge of a vast stage: that tear-gas canisters become more not less potent when they pass their expiry date, that in July last year a Saudi flag appeared in Tahrir Square, that the soldiers took possession of any US dollar bills they came across as evidence of demonstrators being foreign agents.

ECONOMIST: Tahrir Square, one year on