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How Is Southwest Airlines Performing?: Robert Herbst submits: Southwest Airlines' LUV Q3 & Q4 net losses are attributed to fuel hedging/derivative "Special Items". But, when you look further back, the profits net for several quarters are not attributed to the fuel savings due to the same hedging derivatives. Is this called creative accounting or creative...; Tags: Transport, Robert Herbst, Southwest Airlines Co.; External links 2009-01-25
AMR Corp.'s Pilots: Getting the Short-End of the Stick: Robert Herbst submits: A comment in [[AMR]]’s recent SEC 10-K filing caught my attention: “Early pilot retirements resulted in $917 million in total lump sum payments to 517 pilot retirees (approximately $1.8 million per retiree consisting of payments from Company-funded defined benefit and defined contribution plan trusts) for which the...; Tags: Transport, Robert Herbst, AMR Corp.; External links 2009-02-23

The Airlines' Recent Death Defying Actions: Robert Herbst submits: Not long ago, daily media stories were predicting which major airline would be the first in line to fail. Las Vegas type odds were given to a list of inevitable airline bankruptcies. There should be no argument the US airline industry is facing unprecedented challenges as they...; Tags: Transport, AMR Corp., Continental Airlines Inc., Delta Air Lines Inc., JetBlue Airways Corp., US Airways Group Inc., Southwest Airlines Co., UAL Corp.; External links 2008-08-07
US poised to bring more insider trading cases: By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Rachelle Younglai of Reuters BOSTON/WASHINGTON - Fresh from laying charges in the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history, US federal investigators are poised to bring further "significant" cases. The targets will include financial professionals also involved in insider trading, a source familiar with the...; Tags: SEC, insider, Hedge Fund; News items 2009-10-19
U.S. Eyes More Insider Trading Cases: By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Rachelle Younglai BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - Fresh from laying charges in the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history, U.S. federal investigators are poised to bring further "significant" cases. The targets will include financial professionals also involved in insider trading, a source familiar with the...; Tags: SEC, insider, Hedge Fund; News items 2009-10-20

The Question of Community: Back in October, I wrote a piece on PR losing to advertising for social media . A lot of people brought up a lot of good points (including that there doesn't need to be a fight). A friend - Kevin A. Barry - noted that the most important...; Tags: Community; News items 2009-09-02
New Arrests in Galleon Case: NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Nine more people have been arrested in the Galleon Group insider-trading scandal, bringing to 15 the number charged in the biggest hedge fund-related case in history. The new arrests include Wall Street traders, lawyers and hedge fund managers, according to complaints filed in federal court...; Tags: complaint, Hedge Fund; News items 2009-11-05
Hedge Funds Tip-toe Toward an Uncertain Future: By Joseph A. GiannoneNEW YORK (Reuters) - It wasn't too long ago big-time hedge fund managers like James Pallotta were erecting monuments to themselves. In Pallotta's case, it was a $21 million Georgian-style mansion he built in 2007 in Weston, a leafy Boston suburb uncomfortable with such displays of wealth.Yet...; Tags: Hedge Fund, Industry, Investor, Upshot, AllianceBernstein Holding LP, Fee, Fortress Investment Group LLC, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.; News items 2009-12-16