Fear and greed are the only two motivations for action when playing in the arena known as Wall Street. Fear of losing money or missing an opportunity, or just fear of making the wrong decision. Greed is an all motivating factor just as Gordon Gecko said in the famous movie Wall Street “The point is, […]
Entries from March 2008
Fear or Greed
March 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: General Market · Investments · Uncategorized
Forget IR 2.0, Nothing Beats The Old Fashioned Relationship
March 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
IR is a basic absolute for a company even considering being publicly traded. With all the costs associated with being a public company such as SOX compliance, legal, accounting, transfer agent fees, listing fees etc… Why then would a company want to cut back or not have a full effort to effectively get the story […]
Tags: Deal Commentary · General Market · Investments · Private Equity · Tips/Tools
SPAC Attack
March 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Here comes the attack of the more nimble SPAC’s (Special Purpose Acquisition Corp.) These are a relatively new twist to a very old concept which were previously called blank check companies. There are no business operations inside the corporate entity just the construct of a company such as shareholders, capital, management and a publicly traded […]
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MarketWatch & BloggingStocks.com Articles
March 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Time for some shameless self promotion! In case you didn’t catch them on Google or your news feeds, I was just interviewed for two new articles. Check them out at:
No Slack With SPACs (BloggingStocks.com)
Depressed Stocks Open Door to More Takeovers (DowJones MarketWatch)
Tags: General Market · Private Equity
Roth Capital Conference Recap
March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
As I mentioned in an earlier post I attended the Roth Capital Conference at the Dana Point Ritz Carlton. This is an extremely well attended conference focused on the small capitalization public marketplace. There were over 300 companies presenting from all industries and continents. This year Roth Capital featured companies from India, most trading on […]
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Consumer Spending Down; Investing Interest Up
March 1st, 2008 · No Comments
The current economic slowdown (don’t say recession) is affecting all capital expenditures and investments across the board. This slowdown was brought on by the credit crunch caused by the sub prime debacle that has rippled and continues to ripple through the economy. On the consumer side, big box retailers such as Wal-Mart, Target, and Sears […]
Tags: Deal Commentary · Private Equity