Remaining opponents weighted winning percentage 53

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Burnett (11-9, 4.22)Scott Kazmir (9-8,5.08)My Outlook:A single winthis series ensures a season series victory with the Angels, which is prettyuncommon for the Yankees. By no means have the Yanks separated themselves fromthe pack, as they are still monitoring each of the starting pitchers veryclosely, except CC Sabathia. Pettitte,Gaudin and Burnett all have something toprove this series, and any quality performances are weighted highly because ofthe opponent.Another note: One win this series means a clinched playoffberth for the Yanks. This is a moment I am sure manager Joe Girardi is highlyanticipating.Remaining opponents weighted winning percentage: 53.0 percent Magic Number: 9This article is also featured on lenNY’s Yankees. This article is also featured on http:// Finance framework "inadequate, must be revised" -Chairman Accounting rules added volatility, Basel 2 "hobbled" banks UK govt backs plan to set up "Business 20" forum HSBC says independence value for its investors, customers(Adds details throughout) By Lisa Jucca DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Europe's biggestbank, HSBC, said fair value accounting and capital adequacyrules had worsened the financial crisis and called for a new setof principles and rules to boost financial market transparency. "The current financial framework, though well intentioned,has proved inadequate and must be fundamentally revised," saidHSBC Chairman Stephen Green. HSBC is one of the few major banks that has not needed totake taxpayer funds or raise cash privately and Green said therewas value for its clients in remaining independent.

"We do see value for our proposition, both for investors andcustomers, in being a clearly independent, international bank,unquestionably," HSBC Green told Reuters in an interview at theannual meeting of the World Economic Forum. However, banks and other firms needed to work withgovernments and regulators to learn the lesson from thefinancial crisis, and needed to boost trade by improvingtransparency and simplicity in the financial system. "Fair value accounting has added considerable volatility toresults, only part of which is economic and the capital adequacyregime embodied in Basel 2 has hobbled many banks withspiralling capital requirements just when customers need them tobe flexible with lending," Green said in a press release toaccompany his call to create the new business forum. The forum "Business 20" or "B20" was backed by theBritish government and would mirror the G20 group of the mostinfluential economies, focusing on companies with internationaloperations. "The financial system, while desperately in need of change,is just part of the challenge before us," he said. Green said the financial crisis was the worst seen in his 25years as a banker and was possibly the worst since the 1930s. State ownership of banks will be rolled back but banks arelikely to take on less risk in the future, he said.

"I believe that, over time, state intervention that hastaken place as part of the recapitalisation of various bankswill gradually be rolled back Gradually state ownership willhave to be sold down as .. institutions return to health,"Green said in the interview. He said the risk associated with banks will not go away asbanks will continue to invest in foreign exchange and on theinterest rate and derivatives markets to serve clients. "But the risk appetite that built up inrecent years and by the way it killed itself by thinking iteliminated the risk by building very fancy models of products that is going away." Green said banks had made mistakes and should feel humilityand guilt about what they had done, but added it would be wrongto "brand all banks with the behaviour of the worst". For full coverage, blogs and TV from Davos go to (Additional reporting by Steve Slater in London; editing byBen Hirschler and Simon Jessop). I am 15-17 against the line this season.After the first week of 7-9, I expected an improvement and got a small one. This week I am at 8-8 against the line with Miami on Monday night getting three points and losing Straight up with out the spread I am 18-14.