Pre-Marketing 10.4.10

* Reuters: Why it pays to have access to the Fed

* Henry Blodget: Why AOL and Yahoo should merge. Immediately.

* When Citi investors go wild: Ireland’s finance minister is savaged after conference call snafu

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower, London falls early, European shares slide to 1-month low and the Nikkei sheds 0.3%.

* Sanofi gets hostile with Genzyme

* A 16 year-old improves CrunchBase

* Islamic private equity firms face a reality check

* Think tank: UK banks may need another bailout next year

* Former Wesabe CEO Marc Hedlund: Why my startup lost to Mint

* Default swaps indicate that buyouts are poised for a big comeback

* Tweet of the Day: @
punditreview
So Rick Sanchez has a book out about idiocy, and it’s not an autobiography?