Adecco's share price, which fell by one-third after the January announcement, rose slightly after the latest announcement.
If anything, some Lib Dems thought Brown's announcement was slightly premature, saying the Tory-Lib Dem deal was not yet dead.
The announcement comes slightly more than a month after Dotcom launched a new file-sharing site simply called "Mega" to replace his shuttered Megaupload.
The same amount of stock, after the announcement, was worth slightly more than half as much.
Freddie Mac's bonds have held their value since the announcement, dropping only slightly compared with Treasury bonds.
Now he is going to announce it yet again, even though it already has a preferred bidder (picked in May, one month before the official announcement) and a slightly puzzling offer of a government loan guarantee.
The big announcement also, tragically, slightly did for the ethnic minority possibility: had it been (wistful sigh) Idris Elba, one suspects the news would have been downplayed, to encourage the "yeah, he's black, what of it" factor, with which it would almost certainly have been greeted (along with all the delighted screaming).
The anonymous source, bless him, has added some tidbits to the earlier announcement, which was slightly cryptic.
Sure, it'll make Apple's June announcement ever so slightly less exciting — but is that worthy of a mark on someone's criminal record?
Graham ended his announcement on a slightly gaudy note.
