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Don't fight the Fed is much more meaningful in the hiking cycle at the end of a bull market when raising interest rates cuts of the low incremental spread over WACC projects than the easing cycle where lower rates alone won't stimulate banks to lend and where clearing has yet to take lace - low...

What everyone is forgetting about 99/2000 is that the non internet companies, ie the rest of the list had already near bottomed when the Nasdaq was at a peak as they were heavily sold off as "smokestack" or "bricks and mortar" dinosaurs. Remember how the breadth was in a few names? This time...

Apparently he "deeply unhappy" with the price and is trying to block the deal - rmifications for the Fed it seems, but how could there be as this was not a bailout right? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/03/18/cnlewis118.xml

The purpose of a stock market is to allow the sale of companies for more than they are worth.

Please reveal more of what goes on with the big money - we are all ears (seriously).

Above is not wrong, but alternatively getting a feel for who is doing what i.e looking for things that give something away.

Perhaps i was being too pernickity :)

Bill Miller and the Public are still in doubling up mode.

Usual strategy is to freeze withdrawals.

I actually will be using any rally on Fed cuts to add shorts. FYI I am trading from my high tech HQ on my private island surrounded by white cats, goldfish and beautiful girls in beehive hairstyles, plastic mini skirts and high boots. Did you believe them when they said nobody manipulates...

You have no idea how Asia and other countries is going to rub the US's nose in it for all their previous remarks about Asian 'crony capitalism', corporate governence etc.You will never hear the last of this from Asia - they are still smarting over the US high handedness and assumed perfection of...

Come along now, back to the ward.

I agree the stated figure seems high and that as I highlighted it is a historical snapshot, but I think I am jut going to have to leave you to believe what you want to believe on this.

Speculative technology should be financed by risk capital ie. equity and Venture, not bank loans. For a bank the downside risk is 100% for a fixed percent interest schedule. this is not good banking and banks getting in trouble through using loans to finance what shuld have been financed with...

I think he lost the use of his cerebral cortex in a college football game but remembers if you just barge enough people out of the way you get ahead - seems to have worked.

The distortuon of the truth and blame shifting away from Wall St propaganda campaign has begun as refuted by this article. Obviously the people need to be "educated" and their perceptions "managed". This will be just another thing that "can't be discussed". Refco hearing was behind closed doors...

Yes it is but EV is still not as relevent as you think it is as explained by a poster above is. Bankruptcy (insolvency as opposed to liquidity failure) as the legal and accounting profession understands it is different to your personal understading of what bankruptcy is.

Nobody is going to get voted in by teling the people what they don't want to hear, so the 'you can keep your house Harley SUV Widescreen' electoral pledges will be made. The American dream used to be something that was open to you (as opposed to closed off by birth, race etc) IF you worked...

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=mf Second from top line item left hand side. Stock price in the market does not count for accounting solvency determination purposes. MF had USD10.8bn equity as of last reporting date. Balance Sheet Total Cash (mrq): 46.66B Total Cash Per Share (mrq)...

Stock price in the market does not count for accounting solvency purposes. MF has USD10.8bn equity Balance Sheet Total Cash (mrq): 46.66B Total Cash Per Share (mrq): 388.595 Total Debt (mrq): 24.34B Total Debt/Equity (mrq): 18.813 Current Ratio (mrq): 0.992 Book Value Per Share...