SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ira Stoll submits: The blogger Felix Salmon, at Reuters, was kind enough to link my post from Friday morning about the Bair-Miller-Moore Haircut and to disagree with it . I will try to answer Mr. Salmon point-by-point and also offer a more general, conceptual response. He writes that the haircut, or the threat of one, Complete Story »
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Felix Salmon submits: Friday was the Financial Follies — which means that most of New York’s financial journalists descended on the Marriott Marquis for the evening. The joke going around was that Friday afternoon would be a great day to bury bad news, a la Jo Moore , on the grounds that even fewer people would be around to cover it than would normally be working on a Friday after the...
SeekingAlpha Media Stocks (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Felix Salmon submits: Why was Josh Tyrangiel hired to be the new editor of BusinessWeek? One reason, the pundits agree, is that he successfully dragged Time — another weekly — onto the web. Ryan Chittum writes about “his eye-popping numbers at Time.com”, with pageviews rising from 400 million in 2006 to an estimated 1.8 billion this year, while Marion Maneker says that “he...
SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | yesterday
IndexUniverse Europe submits: by Paul Amery There’s been a lengthy discussion on other blogs this week about how ETF Securities’ new currency ETCs work. In my view, the blogs’ authors, Felix Salmon of Reuters and Izabella Kaminska of FT Alphaville, have missed one key subject – collateral costs. Complete Story »
inca kola news (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Good news from yesterday's post . Felix Salmon picked up on the story and wrote an article here. Then SinkingAlpha jumped on first Felix's post and then decided to run the AvA article on site (as a three parter) . It's currently on the front page main headline, has been chosen as an editor's pick and is getting some smart comments from pretty knowledgeable oilheads. It's also found its way to The Business...
SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Felix Salmon submits: Last Friday, Jason Kelly put up a very funny blog entry about his launch of a pair of fictional 100x levered ETFs , with the ticker symbols SOAR and SINK: Kelly Capital will reset and relaunch the funds at the beginning of each trading day. The company is in talks with the Security and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) about the possibility of relaunching the funds after lunch should...
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Felix Salmon submits: John Jansen reprints some BarCap research on the Miller-Moore amendment , and now I think I understand why so many finance types are so scared by it: they’ve misread it! Here’s BarCap: Complete Story »
DealBreaker (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
$$$ Morgan Stanley's $9,000,000,000.00 Check . [Andrew Ross Sorkin] $$$ The Media Is Wrong About Goldman Sachs, AIG [The Atlantic] $$$ Steel Wins Dismissal Of Icahn Bid To Block Restructuring [FINalternatives] $$$ Felix Salmon and Henry Blodget Have a Fight , Make Up [Daily Intel] Morgan Stanley - Goldman Sachs - Andrew Ross Sorkin - American International Group - United States
FutureOfCapitalism.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The blogger Felix Salmon, at Reuters, was kind enough to link my post from this morning about the Bair-Miller-Moore Haircut and to disagree with it. I will try to answer Mr. Salmon point-by-point and also offer a more general, conceptual response. He
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The Internet: It's a terribly vulnerable place. Here we all are, a bunch of quivering egos, flailing around in cyberspace, unencumbered by our physical bodies. With a mere click of a mouse, even the most reasonable adults can find themselves in flaming, finger-pointing bitchfights or long, boring arguments that then remain there, online, for all the world to see. Financial journalists, it seems, are...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
This sounds familiar . Felix Salmon : What are the consequences of allowing multi-billion-dollar systemically important multinational corporations to report their assets using proprietary mark-to-model tools involving discredited Monte Carlo simulations? I think we all know the answer to that one. But unbelievably, after such shenanigans contributed enormously to the greatest financial meltdown in...
SeekingAlpha Energy Stocks (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Felix Salmon submits: What are the consequences of allowing multi-billion-dollar systemically important multinational corporations to report their assets using proprietary mark-to-model tools involving discredited Monte Carlo simulations? I think we all know the answer to that one. But unbelievably, after such shenanigans contributed enormously to the greatest financial meltdown in living memory,...
DealBreaker (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
$$$ Pequot Worker Told Therapist That Samberg Demanded Insider Tips [Bloomberg] $$$ Dick Bove's Top BofA CEO Candidates [The Deal] $$$ Felix Salmon: Henry Blodget Should Be Banned From The Industr y [BI] $$$ Wells Fargo Needs TARP Money More Than It Admits [Bloomberg] Bank of America - Wells Fargo - Troubled Asset Relief Program - United States - Henry Blodget
gary-weiss.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
I was being bombarded with word of the ongoing BusinessWeek slaughter , when I heard of the squabble between Felix Salmon and Henry Blodget . The question is whether it's kosher that Blodget (and other banned securities industry people) should take away jobs from out of work journalists--like the ones being tossed out onto Avenue of the Americas today. Blodget isn't actually the main focus of Salmon's...
Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon wonders why Business Insider CEO and blogger Henry Blodget is allowed to pontificate as a business journalist after being barred from the securities industry, and Blodget has responded. Blodget writes, “Felix is not just annoyed by my disclosure. He is also irritated on behalf of journalists everywhere who have been downsized and [...]
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