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This investigation explains why FMCN all of the sudden rushed to sell their business in the middle of last year

I would think that if the SEC had closed or in any way validated the company in the investigation they would have mentioned that in the filling

I'm betting some M&A funds will liquidate today and tomorrow and the HFTs will make them pay for it

I shorted FMCN after the news The SEC’s initial and follow-up information requests cover a broad range of documents and information related to the operations, finances and transactions of the Company and its subsidiaries, with a primary focus on the Company’s (i) acquisitions...

What do you mean by "sometimes interest"? Is the case above (corporate bond interest) subject to tax?

Most worrying of all is that the fall in yields may blunt the incentive for euro-zone politicians to take tough decisions on reforms. “European policymakers only move at gunpoint, and the only gun around is the market,” says Willem Buiter of Citigroup. “The fact that sovereigns take a...

-Go to Performance and Information Tools in the control panel and configure for best performance instead of visual effects -Disable Windows Search Indexing Just google 'speed up windows 7' and read at least 10 articles about it

More memory, SSD and properly configuring Windows for speed is much better than upgrading the CPU. There are a lot of Windows tricks to speed up a machine

My impression was that the gold pop had more to do with the philly fed being weaker than expected

So the issue has nothing to do with the outsourcing of his own labor

I didn't get taxed when I owned Citigroup corp bonds a few years back

Who was harmed by his behavior

Yeah, I read that. So Ackman missed some points but it seems that Hempton is missing as well. At some point HLF will run out of suckers to exploit for sub min wages What makes this short scary is the fact that it is a global empire of recruiting and exploiting people, its hard to stop and hard...

http://www.thestreet.com/story/11811405/1/analyst-was-early-to-see-possible-value-in-amr-shares.html?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2055431

HLF pre-announcement and buyback got leaked like crazy. Stock was up like 9% by the time Gasparino broke the story. Sick

Damn, should have bought that AAMRQ

Because the Kelly assumes perfect information with regards to gains and losses. In that case it is necessary to use the average otherwise you could end up betting too little or too much in case there is a significant divergence to the median. The average will be affected by the outliers more...

It is also totally bizarre that they only found a drop of -25% on the Chap 11 announcement day before and after. In my experience Chap 11 is usually good for a drop of anywhere between -50% and -90%

That study refers to another study that I initially thought would be interesting but found that it was almost completely worthless due Ivory Tower mentality http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1572733 They find that shorting selling bk stocks produce negative returns and this...