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By Dominic Jones on July 18, 2008
BIZARRE is the only way to describe the screenshot below of Google Finance’s homepage this morning — the day after the search giant reported earnings that missed analyst forecasts and sent its shares tumbling more than 7% in after-hours trading.
By all accounts, Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) earnings miss was big news. It is on the front [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged business, Google, google news, merrill lynch, stocks, technology, wall street journal
By Dominic Jones on March 5, 2007
By Dominic Jones
ANALYSTS at big brokerage firms are increasingly becoming short-term trading strategists for hedge fund clients rather than providers of research to longer-term investors, according to Bloomberg.
Sell-side analysts are so busy chasing lucrative trading dollars from hedge funds that they don’t have time to even take calls from big mutual fund managers.
“You have to [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged analyst, Analysts Chasing Hedge Funds, At JPMorgan Chase & Co, Bank of America Corp., Bloomberg, Broker, Chris Jarvis, conference calls, Credit Suisse Group, Greenwich Associates, Harding Loevner Management LP, Investor Relations, James Wicklund, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., management, Margaret Cannella, Matrix Asset Advisors Inc., merrill lynch, Michael Gambardella, New York, Stefano Natella, Steven Roukis, Tom Larsen, UBS
By Dominic Jones on November 27, 2006
There are 6 items… America’s capital markets: Down on the street | Lifting the Lid: Corporate governance report cards prove tricky | Shareholder equity likely to diminish under new accounting | Artificial intelligence applied heavily to picking stocks | 401(k) teaching in workplace must improve | Podcast numbers show ‘few hooked’
America’s capital markets Down on [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged automatic algorithms, business, finance, Gordon Latter, London, merrill lynch, new york stock exchange, pensions analyst, S&P 500, stocks, technology
By Dominic Jones on September 27, 2006
By Dominic Jones
I DON’T know if this is new or if I just haven’t seen it before, but Yahoo! Finance is posting prominent cautions on summary pages for Nasdaq companies that are behind in their SEC filings.
It’s quite jarring when you first see the caution icon and bold message saying company X “is delinquent [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Apollo Group Inc., Apple Computer Inc., Applied Micro Circuits Corp., BearingPoint Inc., Ceradyne Inc., earnings, EDGAR, finance, Juniper Networks Inc, KLA-Tencor Corp., Man Bites Dog, Marie Leone, merrill lynch, nasdaq, new york stock exchange, NVIDIA Corp., Rambus Inc., reuters, SafeNet Inc., Sapient Corporation, SEC, SEC filings, seekingalpha, Semtech Corp., technology, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Unitedhealth Group Inc., VeriSign Inc., XBRL, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on September 26, 2006
There are 7 items today… Merrill Lynch: Firms Overstating Pro Forma Earnings | Stock Analysts Likely Punished for Unfavorable Recommendations | Survey: Investor Optimism Rises | U.S. Retail Investors Favor Foreign Stocks | Corporate governance poor in emerging countries | Logic Versus Usage: The Case for Activity-Centered Design | Arrival of ‘dotmobi’ domain raises concerns
Merrill [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged disclosure, earnings, merrill lynch, retail investors, stocks, UBS/Gallup, Web developers
By Dominic Jones on September 13, 2006
There are 7 items today… Fed decision revives investor optimism | Investigative Firms Snoop on Booming Hedge Funds | Hurd, Dunn consolidate power at H-P | Sarbanes-Oxley not why foreign IPOs slow–official | Group to examine impact of new rules | Social Networks: Execs Use Them Too
Fed decision revives investor optimism
Fund managers have returned from [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged business, business tools, Hewlett-Packard Co., IPOs, law, merrill lynch, official, technology, US Federal Reserve
By Dominic Jones on August 25, 2006
There are 8 items today… US IPOs see slowest August in three years | American Fund Investors Still Looking Abroad | S&P 500 2nd Quarter Buybacks Set Record at $116 Billion | Late Quarterly SEC Filings Hits Record | A Web 2.0 Tour for the Enterprise | Quarterly earnings calls get online play-by-play | Corporate [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged blogs, communications, earnings, earnings calls, IPOs, merrill lynch, mobile devices, PDA, S&P 500, SEC, SEC filings, securities, securities and exchange commission, Standard and Poor's Ratings Services, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
By Dominic Jones on August 16, 2006
Here are links to 8 stories…
CEO Slams SEC Options “Witch Hunt”
“I think it’s become a witch hunt. I think the government is looking to find some egregious examples [of wrongdoing] and to publicly hang people for them.”
The CEO Bought a Yatch? Sell!
The yacht has long been the classic indicator of someone who has so much [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Citigroup, disclosure, EDGAR, Food and Drug Administration, Investor Relations, John Goodwin, merrill lynch, P&G, SEC, securities, Smith Barney, Treasurer, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, XBRL
By Dominic Jones on July 21, 2006
Hedge funds rake in big bucks
Hedge funds attracted $42 billion of new money in the second quarter, the largest quarterly spike in new assets since 2003, according to an industry tracker.
Equities on the edge
Fund managers are turning away from equities in the biggest potential downturn since the aftermath of 9/11, according to a new research [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Best Buy Co. Inc., China, director elections, Europe, John Colon, Lockheed Martin Corporation, merrill lynch, Pittsburgh, Rohit Khare, SEC, stocks, Tantek Çelik, U.S. Bancorp, World Trade Center
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