Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… The Epicurean Dealmaker on Harvard the Hedge Fund. (TED) Rushkoff on MicroHoo; Calls Yahoo “Microsoft’s Prison Yard Bitch“. (Daily Beast) Weak Dollar overnight, so you know what that means: Explosive global rally in stocks and commodities? (MarketWatch) CB Richard Ellis in the eye of the commercial real estate storm. (LA…
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Breakfast Links: Livermore, Gasparino & the 2nd Ave Subway
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Carney may be onto something re: Epstein‘s “Hedge Fund”. The next Ponzi? (Clusterstock) Thank heavens for Greenback’d, a monster list of every activist investor situation going on right now. (Greenback’d) NEXT Financial gets nailed…gotta supervise those OSJ branches, people. (BusinessWire) Charlie Gasparino has a secret un-admirer who thinks he went…
Stubborn Little Winners
Today we’re going to salute some little guys who wouldn’t give up. Small (er) cap stocks that refused to quit and have made their true-believer shareholders money this year, in one of the worst environments imaginable. What these names have in common is that they all are consumer-oriented companies, 4 of them are engaged in the…
Capital Window Opens for Non-Banks, Too
Now that the rally has lasted way longer than most thought it could, the Capital Window has opened wide. Last week the secondary offering parade began, on the heels of the stress test results. Market commentators have mentioned the fact that new stock is being sold almost indiscriminately by the bankers and syndicates and that issues are…
TGIF Market Recap: Impossible Rally Continues
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YFkcwtpGZo] The Reformed Broker, AKA Colonel Mustard, here with today’s Market Recap… Ford beat their numbers today, the sun was shining here in Manhattan, ummmm I don’t know. I’m trying to come up with reasons for why the Dow was up triple digits all day, but I guess sometimes, there are no answers. Shortie spent…
Can It Be? Really? A Ford Turnaround?
Here’s a new Analogy for y’all: Ford is to General Motors as The Jeffersons are to Sanford and Son While Chrysler and GM currently subsist on bridge loans from the government, Ford (F) is Movin’ On Up as their latest quarterly results came in better than expected on multiple fronts… From TheStreet.com: Ford (F) beat the first-quarter estimates…
Top 10 New Auto Models From Detroit Next Year
So with each passing day, the U.S. automakers seem to be closer and closer to a “gentle, targeted bankruptcy”, whatever the f@#% that means. Here’s a sneak peek at the 2010 models coming out of Detroit to a dealership near you:
