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- Wallstrip: Solving the Bandwidth Problem
- There's just not enough room on the Internet anymore. Unless someone comes up with a solution to provide unlimited bandwidth, one of you has to leave.
- Videos 2008-07-09
- Are You Too Busy And Wish You Had More Time?
- Time really is a dilemma for all of us because so many of us are too busy. And there's too much going on. They key here is to stop for a short while and really think over your priorities. Then really organize your time and be sure you're focusing on...
- White papers 2008-02-04
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- Long/Short Mutual Funds -- More Style than Substance
- As a general rule, if someone recommends an investment product or strategy to you largely on the basis of its sophistication, your best move is to run in the opposite direction. That would seem to be an appropriate reaction to anyone attempting to convince you of the merits of a...
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Yes to Lloyds-HBOS 'Superbank', No to Short Sellers
- The Telegraph called it a the triumph of the hare over the tortoise. Risk-averse Lloyds TSB looks set to take over HBOS to form what's been called a £30bn 'superbank' -- with 28 per cent of the UK mortgage market and links to 40 per cent of UK homes. ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Short-Sellers Keep Prices Honest?
- Alex Singleton takes up the cause of unloved short-sellers, most recently criticised by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu. "Short-selling is a morally virtuous activity because it helps keep share prices honest," says Singleton. His...
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Bridgford Foods: The Mother of all Short Squeezes
- Mark Krieger submits: Bridgford Foods BRID, a mundane producer of meat and bread products, is apparently the record holder, for the highest short interest ratio ever recorded. A stock’s short interest ratio is calculated by taking its shares sold short and dividing it by its average daily trading volume....
- External links 2009-03-08
- Gnip, Betaworks create short URL seed bank
- In light of the near-shutdown of Tr.im, and the actual closing of URL shortening services like URLTea, Shurl.net, and Qurl.net, users of the URL shorteners still standing may wonder what's going to happen to their favorite services if they, too, go belly-up.On Friday, Gnip is announcing that it's releasing a...
- News items 2009-08-14
- Efficiency and the Bear: Short Sales and Markets around the World
- We analyze cross-sectional and time series information from forty-seven equity markets around the world, to consider whether short-sales restrictions affect the efficiency of the market, and the distributional characteristics of returns to individual stocks and market indices. Using the approach developed in Moerck et al. (2000) we find significantly more...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Market Neutral Long/Short Equity Trading
- Managers of market-neutral long/short equity hedge funds make scores of investments like this, picking stocks they believe are sufficiently balanced to keep the portfolio buffered from a severe market swing. Typically, they make sure the baskets of long and short investments are beta neutral. Beta is the measurement of a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Short and Distort - Stock Manipulation in a Bear Market
- A less publicized and more sinister version of short selling can take place on Wall Street. It's called "Short and distort". There is nothing inherently wrong with short selling, which is permissible under the regulations of the Securities & Exchange Commission SEC. But the short-and-distort type of short seller uses...
- White papers 2002-03-01
- Some key empirical determinants of short-term nominal interest rates.
- Inflation is the main determinant of the stochastic component of short-term nominal interest rates. The Federal Reserve can, therefore, permanently lower short rates only by reducing inflation. In the short run, the behavior of nominal rates is determinedInflation is the main determinant of the stochastic component of short-term nominal interest...
- Research articles 1995-06-22
- Short Sellers: Quit Whining and Follow The Rules
- Tom Brown submits: Doug Kass’s ode to the market-efficiency-enhancing benefits of short selling in the FT last week would be more convincing if the list of short-selling all-stars he includes had some actual investors on it. But it doesn’t. Jim Grant is a journalist, not a money manager. Nouriel Roubini is...
- External links 2008-08-27
- The Blame Game, Part I: The Short-Seller Witch Hunt
- Paul Kedrosky submits: We're now into the blame game, and it seems obvious that a major chunk of the blame for the current mini-round of the ongoing financial crisis is being accorded to short-sellers. Tonight we are hearing about new disclosure rules for short-sellers, new bans on short-selling certain...
- External links 2008-09-18
- Short Interest Highest in Consumer Discretionary Sector
- Andrew Horowitz submits: As of April 30, 2009 bearish bets or short interest on the market has decreased beyond their March 13th lows. In the chart below, a red line indicates the change in the short interest ratio. The short interest ratio can be calculated by taking the total short...
- External links 2009-05-14
- Resume Technique: Four Rules for Listing Short-Term Jobs
- If you've been in the modern workforce a while, chances are good you've changed companies a few times in your career. Furthermore, some of those stints may have been short ones, for a variety of reasons: You found a better opportunity, the fit wasn't right or your new employer suffered...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Short Interest Update on Salesforce.com
- Jessica Johnson submits: Salesforce.com CRM announced earnings results Thursday. The short base has been declining over the past few months along with some other software companies. Epicor Software Corp EPIC has fallen 7% over the last month and the short base now stands at 3.8%, Netsuite Inc has fallen...
- External links 2009-08-24
- Take Post Installation Adjustability to the Next Level with Peerlessâ?? New Line of Short Throw Projector Mounts â?? Simple, Quick and the Perfect Fit!
- -- New Short Throw Projector Mount Line Provides Unlimited Throw Ranges for Virtually All Short Throw and Ultra-Short Throw Projectors -- CHICAGO -- Choosing a...
- Research articles 2009-04-15
- Britain considers new short selling disclosure rules
- LONDON — Britain's financial regulator is considering forcing investors to disclose short positions in all stocks, not just banks and insurers, it said on Wednesday. The Financial Services Authority FSA on Monday said its ban on short-selling financial stocks would end on Jan. 16, but investors still need to disclose...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Banks, Short Term Debt and Financial Crises
- Short-term borrowing has often been blamed for precipitating financial crises. Institutions like banks that want to enhance their ability to provide liquidity and credit to difficult borrowers have to borrow short-term. Similarly countries that have poor disclosure rules and inadequate investor protections, have limited long-term debt capacity, and will find...
- White papers 2000-08-03
- Short Sales Constraints and Momentum in Stock Returns
- We find that the magnitude of momentum returns for the period 1983 to 2001 is related to short sales constraint determinants identified by D'Avolio (2002). The signs of the relations are consistent with stocks with higher short sales constraints exhibiting greater momentum returns. Moreover, loser stocks rather than winner stocks...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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