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- Eureka! The SEC Enforced Regulation G!
- Gary Weiss submits: Will wonders never cease? This isn't likely to get much notice, but it's pretty big news: the SEC actually enforced one of the most crucial regulations preventing public companies from cooking the books, known as Regulation G. The agency reached a settlement yesterday with SafeNet Inc. and...
- External links 2009-11-13
- Where Was the Press While an Analyst Was Being Crushed by Matrixx Initiatives?
- Gary Weiss submits: Gretchen Morgenson had a great column in the New York Times yesterday on the successful effort to crush an independent analyst by Matrixx Initiatives MTXX, the criticism-phobic pharmaceutical company whose OTC cold products were recently ordered recalled by the FDA. Reading her column got...
- External links 2009-06-29
- The SEC Still Needs a Seeing-Eye Dog
- Gary Weiss submits: Gretchen Morgensen's New York Times column on Sunday sticks a pin on the issue that the SEC will have to wrestle with, if it is to stem its slide into oblivion. Will it continue to ignore credible evidence of wrongdoing, or will it continue to...
- External links 2009-02-02
- Is Tim Geithner Too Close to Goldman Sachs?
- Gary Weiss submits: That issue was raised in an interesting video yesterday by Chris Whalen, who runs Institutional Risk Analytics and is not a fan of the New York Fed chief. by Gary Weiss
- External links 2009-01-22
- John Paulson: Villain or Genius?
- Gary Weiss submits: That's the subject of my latest Portfolio article, which is online here.In the context of an in-depth profile of John Paulson, I discuss the role of short-selling in the recent calamity. Note Jim Chanos's account of a conversation that he had with Alan Schwartz of Bear...
- External links 2009-01-08
- GAO Confirms: The SEC Allowed Companies to Commit Fraud
- Gary Weiss submits: Under Chris Cox, this was official SEC policyMy readers probably weren't the slightest bit surprised by the findings of a GAO report released yesterday.Bloomberg reports: by Gary Weiss
- External links 2009-05-06
- Goodbye, Naked Shorting
- Gary Weiss submits: Floyd Norris makes a point that I have made several times in the past, beginning with Wall Street Versus America and most recently here, which is that naked short selling -- to the extent it has ever existed -- has pretty much vanished from the...
- External links 2009-05-03
- Overstock.com Stalking Victim Exposes Creepy Hedge Fund
- Gary Weiss submits: The press has been agog recently about Paradigm Capital, a fund-of-hedge-funds run by members of Joe Biden's family, and its apparent connection with a hedge fund shut by the SEC called Ponta Negra. CJR's Audit column has the full details on this remarkable scoop by a...
- External links 2009-04-30
- How Dendreon Is Proving Short Sellers Wrong
- Gary Weiss submits: So here we have a man bites dog story: a company that is a poster child of the anti-short-selling conspiracy kooks, and which has just whupped the shorts the only way they can be whupped--by producing a product that works. That company is called Dendreon...
- External links 2009-04-17
- Another Nail in Overstock.com's Coffin
- Gary Weiss submits: My favorite corporate crime poster child, Overstock.com, which has been lying about its finances since this heap of ca-ca in 2000 (Overstock actually lost $21.5 million in 2000, and then 2001, and then 2002, and then.....), recently announced a change in its auditor.A change in auditors...
- External links 2009-03-31
- AIG Bonuses and Collective Amnesia
- Gary Weiss submits: Joe Nocera had a perceptive column yesterday describing the problem with the hysteria that has surrounded the [[AIG]] bonuses. Sure the bonuses are outrageous--any child can see that--but Nocera points out that rage over the bonuses tends to obscure more significant issues. But there is...
- External links 2009-03-22
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- McAfee Inc. Q4 2005 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (MFE)
- Earnings Call Excerpt McAfee Inc. MFE Q4 2005 Earnings Conference Call February 10th 2006, 4:30 PM. Executives: Kelsey Doherty, Senior Director of Investor Relations Eric Brown, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President George Samenuk, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer Analysts: ...
- Earnings calls 2006-02-14
- New York Community Bancorp Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call ExcerptNew York Community Bancorp Inc. NYB Q4 2008 Earnings Call January 27, 2009 9:30 am ET Executives Ilene Angarola – Director of Investor Relations Joseph Ficalora – Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas Cangemi – Chief Financial Officer Robert Wann – Chief Operating Officer John...
- Earnings calls 2009-01-27
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