Joseph Giannone, of Reuters, has a Q&A with UBS investment
bank CEO Huw Jenkins up on the web today. There are excerpts
at the Reuters blog, but if you want to read the whole thing you’ll need to
a Word file. Most peculiar.
Jenkins is smart enough not to commit any news in the interview, but he does
demonstrate a fine taste for mixed metaphors:
"We haven’t been as lucky at backing the winning horse as we might have
wished but like a lot of people in this business, you need a lot of at-bats
before you actually get a hit."
"We don’t want to lead with our chins and try to do too much in one
bite."
By my count, that’s four sports in two metaphors: horse racing, baseball, boxing,
and, er, competitive eating? I’m just disappointed the Welsh Jenkins didn’t
get rugby in there somehow.