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- Highly Ambitious Bankers Should Steer Clear of BofA
- Vincent Fernando submits: It's completely ridiculous that the new American "pay czar" has been able to deny former Bank of America BAC chief Ken Lewis part of his pay package. The Treasury Department's pay czar pushed outgoing Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Kenneth D. Lewis into...
- External links 2009-10-16
- GM Shares Just Won't Quit
- Vincent Fernando submits: Looks like GM (GMGMQ.PK) shares, now shares for Motors Liquidation Company, just won't quit, even after management said that the shares will go to zero. We wrote about this previously, and did a bit of investigation into the message boards. Despite the likely scenario that equity...
- External links 2009-07-13
- GM Says It Straight and Simple: Shares Are Going to Zero
- Vincent Fernando submits: Footnoted points out that GM says it straight and simple in a latest SEC filing: Don't buy GM (GMGMQ.PK) shares, it is going to zero. GM management has noticed the continuing high trading volume in GM’s common stock at prices in excess of $1....
- External links 2009-07-05
- Do California IOUs Carry an Implicit Guarantee from the Federal Government?
- Vincent Fernando submits: By now almost everybody probably has heard of how California will issue IOU's to pay its bills and how these will yield 3.75%. As Joe Weisenthal at Clusterstock pointed out, this puts and end to the key difference between the Federal Government and California - that...
- External links 2009-07-05
- Bank Overdraft Brouhaha: Why Can't People Take Responsibility for Themselves?
- Vincent Fernando submits: I can't help but keep finding points of contention with Felix Salmon at Reuters. I think he writes well and I'm sure he's great to have a beer with. But he exemplifies the current environment of bank-hatred whereby hatred for their deserved wrongs has spilled over...
- External links 2009-07-02
- Apollo Group: Promising Growth Opportunities Barring Changes in Policy, Economy
- Vincent Fernando submits: Apollo Group APOL, by far the largest for-profit education company, recently released its FY3Q09 results, beating street estimates and sending its shares up almost 8% today as a result. The following is a concise overview of the earnings, the analyst conference call, and Apollo's outlook. ...
- External links 2009-07-01
- Time Magazine Lays Blame for Crisis on Madoff: How So?
- Vincent Fernando submits: Time Magazine really knows how to cater to the witch-hunt crowd, given their recent 25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis piece. A funny thing I noticed though. Bernie Madoff is included as one of the top 25... To Blame For the Financial Crisis. The...
- External links 2009-06-29
- Conversion of Citi's Preferred Shares Could Bring Stock Down Temporarily
- Vincent Fernando submits: This is not a valuation call, merely a supply/demand observation. As highlighted by Dealbook and an analyst at Fox-Pitt, the conversion of Citi's C preferred shares (remember the first round of Citi life support provided by Singapore, Kuwait, Sandy Weill himself, and Prince Alwaleed?) could lead...
- External links 2009-06-24
- Gannett, McClatchy Face Stubborn Bondholders: A Creative Solution
- Vincent Fernando submits: The Deal points out that Gannett GCI and McClatchy MNI both recently tried to buy back some of their outstanding bonds at a discount to face value though at a premium to the market price I am assuming, but were for the most part rejected by their...
- External links 2009-06-23
- Taiwan Semi's Brightening Outlook
- Vincent Fernando submits: As markets come down and Nouriel Roubini talks of yellow weeds over green shoots, I figured it was useful to still point out some positive news despite it being a bit passé. Taiwan Semiconductor TSM, the top dog when it comes to independent semi-conductor foundries, has...
- External links 2009-06-23
- Russia Threatens ArcelorMittal: Poor Timing
- Vincent Fernando submits: Russia’s Kemerovo region has notified ArcelorMittal MT that it will seize two of the world’s largest steel maker’s mines if production levels do not increase, the Siberian region’s government said in a statement, Reuters reported. “If your team is not able to stabilize production at these...
- External links 2009-07-13
- Goldman Early 2009 Earnings Look Like Old Goldman of 2007
- Vincent Fernando submits: So just where does a $2 billion profit fit into Goldman Sachs Group’s GS profit-making history? If, as The New York Times reports Monday, Goldman will clear $2 billion in net income this quarter, it would make it the bank’s eighth best quarter since...
- External links 2009-07-14
- WPP's CEO Thinks Internet Advertising Has a Long Way to Grow
- Vincent Fernando submits: Ad agency WPP's WPPGY CEO believes that while ad spending will recover with an improving economy, it will never be the same as it was. One big reason for this is the transition from traditional media to the internet. He explains that companies currently...
- External links 2009-09-22
- China Contractors Go After Foreign Stimulus Funds
- Vincent Fernando submits: After the creation of a massive construction industry in China, it appears this industry is exporting its services worldwide. Tax payer stimulus dollars doled out by other governments, ostensibly in the interest of the local people, are a prime target. With many countries in...
- External links 2009-09-06
- Big French Pharma Moves to Distance Itself from U.S. Healthcare Protests
- Vincent Fernando submits: In an almost satirical twist to the healthcare debate, it turns out that Big French Pharma, in the form of Sanofi-Aventis SNY, is now linked to anti-Obamacare protests via lobbying firm DLA Piper. DLA ex-employee Dick Armey is chairman of Freedomworks, a pressure group...
- External links 2009-08-18
- China's Bull Market: Massive Underlying Risk Still Exists
- Vincent Fernando submits: The best bull argument I can find in regards to the Chinese market is that the government has little choice but to keep liquidity flowing, even if they know this will be negative in the long-term. Since a government "investigation" can't possibly yield much,...
- External links 2009-08-09
- Housing Bust: Speculators Sounded the First Alarm, Not Government
- Vincent Fernando submits: It is interesting to note that speculative markets, not government institutions were the first to sound the alarm when it came to the US housing bubble. And actually... not only were government institutions asleep at the wheel in terms of warning people that prices had gone...
- External links 2009-08-09
- Massive Underlying Risk for Chinese Market Buyers
- Vincent Fernando submits: We're not alone in questioning the prudence of buying into the Chinese market right now. Turns out Andy Xie, previously of Morgan Stanley, has some pretty sober words for what he sees as a bubble in Chinese asset prices. (via Clusterstock, Barry Ritholtz) The...
- External links 2009-08-05
- Goldman's China Portfolio: Professional Investing or Day Trading Rag?
- Vincent Fernando submits: Sometimes "professional" investment research resembles little more than a day trader rag with nicer charts and fancier wording to make the reader feel less guilty and more professional about the kind of "investing" he or she is actually performing. Thus we point to Goldman's GS recent...
- External links 2009-08-04
- Apple, Microsoft, Google: Far from Coercive Monopolies
- Vincent Fernando submits: Given the recent FCC inquiry into "uncompetitive" practices by Apple AAPL in regards to Apple not allowing some of Google's GOOG products to work on Apple's own phone, and also as a result of my long standing thinking vis-a-vis all the flak and massive European fines...
- External links 2009-08-03
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