The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
“Forty-eight of 50 states and 95 out of the nation’s 100 largest metro areas experienced year-over-year increases in foreclosure activity in the second quarter." -RealtyTrac CEO James J. Saccacio, Q2 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report. > The latest RealtyTrac foreclosure data is out, and it is rather astonishing: Almost 740,000 properties were in some stage of the foreclosure process, the most since they...
DealBook (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
One year after the implosion of his $3 billion hedge fund, Sowood Capital Management, Jeffrey Larson is trying to raise fresh capital for a new fund, Reuters reported. “Larson is back, and he has been calling virtually everyone in town, leaving no stone unturned,” a Boston-based investor who was reportedly contacted by Mr. Larson, told Reuters. Mr. [...]
NakedShorts (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
An email late Thursday night announces that ETF provider Wisdom Tree (WSDT), long a non-reporting presence in the public markets ...will host its first corporate earnings conference call for the second quarter, ending June 30, 2008. The company will announce...
Free Exchange (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
How bad can get housing get?
