Description: One of the more remarkable things about Apple?s record debt sale this week was that $3 billion of it came in the form of 30-year bonds. That?s a common duration in such sectors as financials and health care?but not so much in technology, where fortunes are made and destroyed by the constant churn of… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Risk Management
Whole Foods Local Forager Elly Truesdell Is a Grocery Tastemaker
Description: The dairy cows smell. All farm animals do, of course, but these particularly pungent Holsteins have just come in from the rain. They?re huddled in open stalls inside a white wooden barn at Cella Brothers in Wallingford, Conn., swishing their tails, chewing on bales of hay, and remarking on the terrible weather with a… Read more »
What Is Too Big to Fail?
Description: On today’s “Bloomberg University,” Dominic Chu explains “too big to fail.” He speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “Bottom Line.” (Source: Bloomberg) Source: Bloomberg.com – video report Date: Apr 26, 2013 Link: http://bloom.bg/11Jq2YW Questions for Discussions: Summarize the lesson presented. Do you believe risk increases with the size of the organization? How should regulators deal with… Read more »
George Soros Isn’t Dead, and Neither (He Hopes) Is J.C. Penney
Description: The news that George Soros has taken a 7.9 percent passive stake in J.C. Penney (JCP) brings to mind an old TV commercial from my childhood. In it, two boys stare with disgust at a bowl of Life cereal that their mother naively mentioned was good for them. They then push it in front… Read more »
Boutique Vintners Turn to Private Equity for Help
Description: When Ed Sbragia started Sbragia Family Vineyards, it was an accomplishment that was nearly a century in the making. His grandfather moved from Italy to California in 1904 to work in the wineries just north of San Francisco. In the 1940s, Mr. Sbragia’s father bought property in the Dry Creek Valley near Healdsburg and… Read more »
Bet against Chipotle? Bad move
Description: Chipotle short sellers like investor David Einhorn feel the sting as shares of the popular Tex-Mex chain soar on strong earnings. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Apr 19, 2013 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/investing/2013/04/19/investing-the-buzz-chipotle.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: Summarize the price movements and the reasons for them? Why do you think they continue to do well?
Gold slide flashes warning signs for global economy
Description: ANALYSIS: The plunge in the gold price in the past week may have raised a big red flag over the global economy. Some top investors say the gold sell-off, and the broader declines in oil and metals prices, reflect the failure of the Federal Reserve and other central banks to create robust demand even… Read more »
The Price of Gold Is Crashing. Here’s Why
Description: A chart of the crashing price of gold looks like a wedding ring rolling off a table. Gold futures for June delivery closed at $1,361 an ounce on the Comex in New York today, a drop of more than $200 in two sessions. Gold’s fall of 13 percent since April 11 was the biggest… Read more »
When to ‘hold or fold’ your stock
Description: As the Dow ends its best first quarter in five years, some investors suggest cashing out now before the market corrects itself. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Apr 09, 2013 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/pf/2013/04/09/pf-when-to-sell-stocks-romans.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: Summarize the advice to investors as presented in this report. What is the basis of this thinking? Do… Read more »
Gold sinks into bear market on institutional exodus
Description: Gold sank almost 5 percent into bear territory on Friday as institutional investors fled bullion in favour of other safe-haven assets amid concerns about central bank sales and souring sentiment. Source: BNN.ca – video report Date: Apr 12, 2013 Link: http://www.bnn.ca/News/2013/4/12/Gold-heads-for-third-weekly-drop.aspx Questions for Discussions: What does this report say about the movement in gold… Read more »
