Archive for October, 2009

• Winners and Sinners: Synovus Financial (SNV)
  Joshua M Brown, October 23rd, 2009 at 1:00 pm, Comments: 0

  Synovus Financial (SNV) looks like it was hit by a bus today, down 21% from last night's close as of this posting on a worse [...]

• The Return of the Why-P.O.
  Joshua M Brown, October 23rd, 2009 at 9:01 am, Comments: 0

  Why?  Because the capital markets will support it, that's why. We're starting to see something I had hoped would be further down the pike during [...]

• Meriwether: 3 Times a Charm?
  Joshua M Brown, October 23rd, 2009 at 7:40 am, Comments: 0

  My pal Trader Mark posted the news that John Meriwether, aka the Master of Disaster, is launching a new investment vehicle.  I'll link over to that [...]

• Hot Links: Ice-T Versus a Mac Laptop
  Joshua M Brown, October 23rd, 2009 at 6:22 am, Comments: 0

  [vodpod id=Groupvideo.3717525&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] Stuff I'm Reading this Morning... Here's how nerdy Intel execs propose to their girlfriends.  (LATimes) I'm sorry to hear about Fortune Mag cuting [...]

• Enter the Lexicon: "Salarized Stock"
  Joshua M Brown, October 22nd, 2009 at 2:10 pm, Comments: 0

  The Pay Czar has spoken.  Here are the new rules for TARP-scrounging firms, about a year too late... From MarketWatch: WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Kenneth Feinberg, [...]

• Seen Outside The Helmsley Building (Park & 45th)
  Joshua M Brown, October 22nd, 2009 at 10:36 am, Comments: 0

  Please let it be a Gordon Gecko scene and not a Shia scene.  I'm as giddy as a schoolgirl.  Read Also: Guess Who's Back!  (TRB) [...]

• Hot Links: Patterns, the Pay Czar & MC Trebek
  Joshua M Brown, October 22nd, 2009 at 7:50 am, Comments: 0

  Stuff I'm Reading this Morning (sorry for the late start, Daddy put down a few drinks last night)... Goldman Sachs takes a trip to China [...]

• Dow Slips on a Banana Peel
  Joshua M Brown, October 21st, 2009 at 2:51 pm, Comments: 0

  Quite a reversal.  The Dow appears to have slipped on a banana peel headed into the close.

• The Bailout You Never Heard About
  Joshua M Brown, October 21st, 2009 at 9:57 am, Comments: 0

  The quintessential book on Bailouts has already been written, it's called Bailout Nation by Barry Ritholtz and many of my colleagues and clients will be [...]

• A Look at Health Care Coverage Numbers in the US
  Joshua M Brown, October 21st, 2009 at 7:39 am, Comments: 0

  In the current battle over health care, you will hear a lot more of a ruckus over WHO is covered as opposed to much about [...]