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Earnings Review Of Note Monday-Tuesday

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:59:36 GMT

Some names I am looking at early this week Monday Fund holdings - Baidu.com (BIDU) and First National Financial (FNF). The former broke through the 200 day moving average Thursday but I cut it down to 1 share on super froth. The latter has been stagnat the past 8 days, with each day an intraday low hitting the 50 day moving average. Very strange. I cut back a bit to a 2.5% stake since I have double jeopardy in these guys with FNF and FAF. I expect good things but the stock action has been weak"ish" and this is the more expensive of the two - not that[More...]

Doug Kass' 20 Suprises for 2009

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:48:00 GMT

As promised, presented at TheStreet.com are Doug Kass' 20 Surprises for 2009; Doug is a hedge fund manager who I have been following for a long time and who excels in non Kool Aid analysis. Probably because his main hedge fund has had a short bias all these years, hence you tend to be more cynical when you need to fight drunk bulls every day. As Doug says, Wall Street is dominated by group think and herd behavior. While standing in front of the herd is dangerous, one can find some profitable opportunities from thinking outside the box. These are his predictions from last year (Jan 2: Doug Kass 20 Predictions for 2008)[More...]

Best Performing Stocks Of The Past Quarter

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:38:00 GMT

Back in early October I wrote in (Oct 1: Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide) how there simply was no asset class (ex US Treasuries and US Dollar), no sector, no country to hide in. Everything stunk, and in fact it got worse in the ensuing weeks. September, October, November 2008 might be the worst 3 months ever (I don't have the date) but if not, it has to be in the top 3. We used to run a weekly screen here to identify areas of relative strength - it's been useless for months on end. But for curiousity sake I ran it to see the best performers over the past quarter. Criteria Market capitalization $1.50B+ Average trading volume 100K+Stock price $10+Return this[More...]

Covered Call Writing - Screen of the Week

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:53:00 GMT

Stocks highlighted today are American Public Education (APEI), Greenhill & Co. (GHL), Children's Place Retail (PLCE), Myriad Genetics, Inc. (MYGN) and Wabtec Corp. (WAB). Today I want to talk about options. But not about buying calls and puts. Instead, I want to go over Covered Call Writing. This is an excellent strategy to use in up, down and sideways markets. This is a[More...]

Greenhill & Co. - Momentum

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:53:00 GMT

Greenhill & Co. (GHL) continues to distinguish itself from its Wall Street brethren by avoiding risky bets and growing its earnings. The company's share price has been rallying since July. Company Description Greenhill & Co., with its subsidiaries, operates as an independent investment banking firm in North America and Europe. The company was founded in 1996, has a market cap of $1.80 billion and is headquartered in New York, New York. The shock waves reverberating across Wall Street have forced many investment banks to either declare bankruptcy or convert into deposit holding companies. Such is not the case with Greenhill,[More...]

Best Perfomers Over Last Quarter

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:14:00 GMT

It is a moot point looking at weekly winners this week; just a handful of stocks moving up led by such growers as Campbell Soup (CPB) aka "people will still need to eat soup if nothing else" trade. So instead I am going to look at the best and worst performers the past 3 months. In this post we have every stock over $1.25B in market cap returning 15%+ (115 stocks) Now keep in mind the data is a bit misleading because 3 months ago at this time we were in the throes of another painful correction, in a series of step ladders down. About 90 days ago Fannie and Freddie and Lehman were falling off a cliff, and we were just over a week away from Hank Paulson going to Congress to create a plan to backup Fannie/Freddie. So this was a "bottom" and the financials rallied hard for the next 6-7 weeks - Fannie/Freddie of course were officially taken over within 2 months from that point.[More...]

On Bank Holding Companies And Bailouts

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:49:00 GMT

BHC or Bust The news that Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are in the process of becoming Bank Holding Companies (BHCs) doesn't come as a complete surprise. If these firms were to remain independent, they had to radically reposition their balance sheets by bolstering capital and lengthening debt maturities. Further, the trend towards greater transparency is already afoot, so the kinds of disclosures required under the BHC Act were in the offing, anyway. Finally, by become a BHC you have access to the Fed window, access of some consequence given today's tumultuous market conditions. So by becoming a Bank (with a capital B) in the regulatory sense of the word, Goldman and[More...]

Periodicals Wrap-Up for Monday, June 23rd

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:17:01 GMT

Last November, Google (GOOG) and 30 partners were said be developing a new type of handset using Android software that was expected to revolutionize the industry. The first new phones were expected to be available in this year’s second half but are now[More...]

Premarket Analysis for 3/25

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:45:26 GMT

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Nobody loses money like Ambac - Feb 9 2008 10:59PM

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:53:37 GMT

A few years ago it was Enron, these days, it's Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (Public, NYSE:ABK) that's pushing for 'Worst Shareholder Nightmare for 2008'. Since their shares have fallen from the $30's down to $6 and now back to the $11 range, it's enough t[More...]

Services/Suppliers

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:46:00 GMT

Boots & Coots Inc., Houston, and add energy group AS, Stavanger, have entered into a cooperation agreement to market and offer an integrated risk management solution covering blowout prevention, mitigation, response, and related services.
Under the agreement, Boots & Coots and add energy will cooperate on well control response and blowout risk and engineering services in and on transient hydraulic simulations worldwide.
Boots & Coots provides integrated pressure control services to onshore and offshore oil and gas tion companies worldwide.

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Earnings Review Of Note Monday-Tuesday

Doug Kass' 20 Suprises for 2009

Best Performing Stocks Of The Past Quarter

Covered Call Writing - Screen of the Week

Greenhill & Co. - Momentum

Best Perfomers Over Last Quarter

On Bank Holding Companies And Bailouts

Periodicals Wrap-Up for Monday, June 23rd

Premarket Analysis for 3/25

Nobody loses money like Ambac - Feb 9 2008 10:59PM

Services/Suppliers

Goldman analyst upgrades mid-cap brokers sector

PartnerRe to Acquire Paris Re

Independent Directors of EPCOR Power L.P. To Consider Capital Power Corporation Transaction

Greenhill Forms Financing Advisory & Restructuring Group in New York and London

Boutique Banks to Cash In

Dynegy Announces Completion of Transaction With LS Power

NYSE Euronext Completes Acquisition of NYFIX

Sykes Enterprises, Incorporated and ICT Group, Inc. Sign Definitive Merger Agreement

NCI Building Systems Announces Commencement of Exchange Offer to Retire Existing Convertible Notes

GHL Acquisition Corp. Announces Commencement of Common Stock Offering

SPAC Sponsored By Greenhill Announces Repurchases of Common Stock

SPAC Sponsored by Greenhill Announces Further Progress Toward Acquisition of Iridium With FCC Approval

NCI Building Systems Announces Agreement With Clayton, Dubilier & Rice ; -- Company to Receive $250 Million Investment --; -- Transaction Provides Comprehensive Capital Structure Solution --; -- Company Expects to Report Profits and Positive Cash Flow for Fiscal Third Quarter --

Dynegy Reaches Transformational Agreements With LS Power; Separately Initiates Cost Reduction Program

Greenhill SAVP Completes Investment In TRAFFIQ

Form 4 GREENHILL & CO INC For: Nov 23 Filed by: RODRIGUEZ HAROLD J JR (10K)

Form 4 GREENHILL & CO INC For: Nov 23 Filed by: BORROWS SIMON A (10K)

Form 4 GREENHILL & CO INC For: Nov 23 Filed by: NIEHAUS ROBERT H (10K)

Form 4 GREENHILL & CO INC For: Nov 23 Filed by: GREENHILL ROBERT F (10K)

Form 4 GREENHILL & CO INC For: Nov 17 Filed by: BOK SCOTT L (10K)

Form 4 GREENHILL & CO INC For: Nov 23 Filed by: Lieb Richard J (10K)

Form 4 GREENHILL & CO INC For: Nov 23 Filed by: Ekman Ulrika (10K)

Form 4 GREENHILL & CO INC For: Oct 01 Filed by: DANFORTH JOHN C (10K)

Form 4 GOLDSTONE STEVEN F For: Oct 01 (10K)

Form 4 KEY STEPHEN L For: Oct 01 (10K)