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Second Highest Number Of S&P 500 Companies Issuing Negative Guidance On Record
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Tyler Durden
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Saturday, June 29, 2019 9:03 PM EDT
Heading into the end of the second quarter, 113 S&P 500 companies have issued EPS guidance for the quarter. Of these 113 companies, 87 have issued negative EPS guidance and 26 companies have issued positive EPS guidance.
Pipelines Get Adult Supervision…Private Equity
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Simon Lack
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Sunday, June 23, 2019 9:20 AM EDT
One solution to poor capital allocation decisions is to favor public companies with a significant private equity investor. Many energy companies could benefit from greater financial discipline.
Why Did Enloe State Bank Fail?
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Nate Tobik
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Sunday, June 2, 2019 5:46 AM EDT
I rarely write about failures, but the failure of Enloe State Bank is fascinating, and after a little digging I'm convinced there's a lot more here than meets the eye.
Trump Declares War On Silicon Valley: DoJ Launches Google Anti-Monopoly Probe
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Tyler Durden
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Saturday, June 1, 2019 11:08 PM EDT
Big tech trust-busting has become one of the few issues in contemporary Washington that garners genuine bipartisan support. Tech giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google are now being subjected to intensifying anti-trust pressure.
Is Zuckerberg’s Power At Facebook Unchecked?
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Shelly Palmer
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Thursday, May 30, 2019 11:18 PM EDT
In this video, Shelly Palmer and CNN's Richard Quest discuss the growing concerns about whether Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has too much power over Facebook.
In this video: META
Vetting Startups And Preparing For Fidelity’s Crypto Trading Service
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Early Investing
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Sunday, May 12, 2019 6:33 PM EDT
We answer readers' questions. This week: "How much due diligence do equity crowdfunding sites do before listing a fundraising round?" And "What’s going on with Fidelity offering crypto? Can I buy it in my retirement account?"
Smoke And Mirrors: How Snap And Pinterest Hide User Attrition
Article By:
Beth Kindig
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Tuesday, April 23, 2019 6:14 PM EDT
Social media companies today are using smoke and mirrors to hide an important key metric.
Feds Prepare To Bail Out "Vast Majority" Of 90,000 Sears Pensions
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Tyler Durden
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Monday, January 21, 2019 10:44 PM EDT
Sears entered into a five-year protection plan with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. in 2016. But Lampert's rescue offer does not include pension plans.
In this article: SHLD
What’s Up With Deutsche Bank?
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GoldBroker
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Sunday, December 16, 2018 12:30 PM EDT
What’s going on with Deutsche Bank? The German government, usually against any form of interventionism, is pushing a merger between this banking behemoth and the country’s second largest bank, Commerzbank, according to Focus economic magazine.
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How To Hold Corporations Accountable
Article By:
Robert Reich
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Saturday, December 15, 2018 4:16 PM EDT
Charles E. Wilson, once CEO of GM, reputedly said that “what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa.”
The idea was that large corporations had a duty to their shareholders, employees, customers, and community.
Corporate Citizenship And The FAANGs - Why Should Investors Care?
Article By:
Herbert Blank
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018 6:39 PM EDT
425, or 85%, of S&P 500 firms file annual CSR or Sustainability Reports. They provide info and data on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Practices. FB, Google, Netflix and Apple do not. Why not? What does that mean for investors?
The Rise Of The Net Short Debt Activist
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AllAboutAlpha
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Saturday, November 24, 2018 7:41 PM EDT
A new sort of debt investor has appeared on the scene recently and this new activism defies the old mold. The activists in question buy long corporate debt in order to assert defaults and in this way to profit on a short position.
Shale Oil Becomes Shale Fail (and A Nice Subsidy For Consumers)
Article By:
Kurt Cobb
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Sunday, October 28, 2018 11:57 AM EDT
The US shale oil industry is using investor money to subsidize oil consumers.There is no other conclusion to draw from the fact that free cash flow continues to be wildly negative for those companies most deeply dependent on U.S. shale oil deposits.
Bitcoin ETF Is Dead - Fraud Everywhere
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Ernie Varitimos
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Friday, October 12, 2018 8:34 PM EDT
Nobody has been able to produce a Bitcoin ETF proposal that has convinced the SEC that there adequate safeguards against fraud.
In this video: BITCOMP