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Behind Some Of The Numbers At JP Morgan 14 Apr 2011 | 06:19 am
J.P. Morgan reported some strong earnings today. But what this bloggers eye were some of the sub-numbers in the earnings report. The bank booked $1.8 billion in investment banking fees. But don’t be f...
The FX Kick At One U.S. Hedge Fund In Asia 30 Mar 2011 | 06:02 pm
In my travels around Asia the past couple of weeks, I’ve been meeting with various banks and investors to learn more about the FX market in connection with our big initiative there. Stopped in to see ...
AT&T Mobile… 21 Mar 2011 | 10:22 pm
There is clearly a lot of positioning going on by AT&T to convince the public and U.S. regulators that its proposed acquisition of rival T Mobile from Deutsche Telecom shouldn’t be viewed as anti-comp...
G-7, Meet Mrs. Watanabe 18 Mar 2011 | 09:50 pm
Retail investors are often looked on as the unsophisticated types who move slowly and late and rarely have a short-term affect on financial markets. They broke from that mold in Japan, where retail F...
Fed Needs To Factor Breaking News Into Post-Meeting Statements 16 Mar 2011 | 06:56 am
The Federal Reserve has a committee studying how to improve communications with the public. But change was not in evidence in the latest statement issued today following the rate-setting meeting of th...
At WSJ Green Capital Conference, A Bounty Of Directions 8 Mar 2011 | 05:21 am
Bill Ford, executive chairman of Ford Motor Co., worries about traffic gridlock on a global basis. Zhengrong Shi, chairman and chief executive of China’s Suntech Power Holdings, one of the world’s lar...
Buffett’s Grandfather And The Importance Of Cash On Hand 1 Mar 2011 | 03:40 am
One of the most interesting aspects of the 26-page annual missive penned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman Warren Buffett was the reproduction of a 1939 letter from his grandfather and the mathemati...
Fed’s ‘Extended Period’ Phrase To Hang Around A Long While 26 Feb 2011 | 09:12 am
This may be a case of over-the-top tea-leaf reading. So, by definition, it will be convoluted. But here goes. My interpretation of some comments made today byFederal Reserve Vice Chair Janet L. Yelle...
Apple Holders Want Director Election Change; Law Should Change 24 Feb 2011 | 12:01 pm
Score one for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System. The country’s largest public pension fund won in its scrimmage with Apple Inc. about how Apple directors get to stay on board. Apple s...
SEC Commissioner Laments Shortage Of Women In Board Rooms 24 Feb 2011 | 08:17 am
Disappointment is the word recently used by a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission about the percentage of corporate directors at big U.S. public companies who are women. The figure ...
