By Valuentum:
Tuesday afternoon, entertainment giant Disney (DIS) purchased Lucasfilms and all associated assets from legendary film maker George Lucas for $4.05 billion-half in cash, half in 40 million newly mi…
By Todd Johnson:
American Capital Agency’s (AGNC) has lost its leading role as a 20% dividend payer. The mortgage real estate investment trust (mREIT) is facing challenging industry headw…
By Valuentum:
As part of our process at Valuentum, we perform a rigorous discounted cash-flow methodology that dives into the true intrinsic worth of companies. In Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ) case, we think the …
How to Spot – and Defeat – Disruption on the Internet David Martin’s Thirteen Rules for Truth Suppression, H. Michael Sweeney’s 25 Rules of Disinformation (and now Brandon Smith’s Disinformation: How It Works) are classic lessons on how to spot disruption and disinformation tactics. We’ve seen a number of tactics come and go over the […]
By Robert Broens:
Shares of MasterCard (MA) rose 1.7% in Wednesday’s trading session. The global payment and technology company connecting consumers, merc…
By Robert Broens:
Shares of MasterCard (MA) rose 1.7% in Wednesday’s trading session. The global payment and technology company connecting consumers, merc…
The Goldman Sachs Analyst Index (GSAI) hit a new post-recession low this month.
Today 40-year veteran Don Coxe told King World News, “… when that bond bear market comes under way, it will be the next phase of the commodity supercycle.” Coxe, who is Global Strategy Advisor to BMO ($538 billion in assets), also added, “What’s fascinating to me is we’ve had this tremendous bull market in gold, against a bond bull marke…
Warren Buffett has slowly been turning more constructive on US housing and now there are reports that he is putting his money where his mouth is. Buffet is making a big bet on housing according to Bloomberg: Berkshire’s HomeServices of America Inc. unit will be the majority owner of the venture to manage a U.S. residential […]
Tens of millions of people braved traffic and patchy public transit to return to work after Sandy’s destructive passage, while others sought only to create a semblance of modern life without electricity, running water and hot showers.
The focus to finance investment abroad is partly driven by the lack of domestic demand for loans. But heftier profit margins have played a part, too.
Governments involved in financial repression (keeping savings rates below the inflation rate) encourage their citizens to do stupid things by reaching for yield. Remember, most people think of yield as a magic chicken that lays eggs on schedule, and never gets sick or dies. Those who truly understand markets know that yield is an allocation […]
By Martin T. – Macronomics November 1, 2012 “It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.” – Charles Caleb […]
Submitted by Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform
The Tremendous Economic Benefits Of Superstorm Sandy
The public relations propaganda campaign to convince the ignorant masses that Sandy’s impact on our economy will be minor and ultimately positive, as rebuilding boosts GDP, has begun. I’ve been hearing it on the corporate radio, seeing it on cor…
Powered by generators, surrounded by flooding and staffed at partial strength, the Big Board cranked back to life for the first time since Sandy swept the East Coast. The Dow industrials closed down 10.75 points at 13096.46.
The Goldman Sachs Analyst Index (GSAI) hit a new post-recession low this month. The index is a composite of corporate outlook by industry from Goldman’s company research. In the past, the index generally fell in line with other economic activity indices such as ISM Manufacturing – but not recently. While the ISM index is showing a slight expansion&nb…
Greece’s parliament narrowly approved a law giving the government greater flexibility to privatize public utilities, but the fractious vote underscored a widening rift within the ruling coalition.
When it comes to international bondholder process, work out and restructuring (and litigation), on the one hand there is Europe, and specifically the ongoing Greek reorganization into an ever tinier balance sheet by way of cramming down weak-covenant, local-law bondholders (who are “encouraged” to participate in ever more coercive principal recovery …
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On September 14, 1899, Henry Bliss stepped off a streetcar at West 74th Street and Central Park West in New York and got run over by a taxi. A plaque points out that it was the first automobile fatality in the “Western Hemisphere.” The taxi was an el…
Authored by J. Michael Cole via The Diplomat,
Well, the Chinese aviation industry sure isn’t wasting any time: From the first glimpse of the tarp-covered fuselage being hauled in the first official pictures released by Shenyang Aircraft Corp (SAC) in September, China’s second fifth-generation stealth aircraft, the J-31, has now taken its maiden f…
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