Tag Archives: Bloomberg

Upcoming Business Wire Events: Meet the Media in Chicago, Crisis Comm in Atlanta, Visit Bloomberg in Toronto

Wake Up With the Chicago Media Hosted by Business Wire Chicago Rise and (make your pitches) shine! Join Business Wire Chicago for breakfast and meet the producers and editors from some of Chicago’s most sought-after outlets. Find out who wants to be pitched via social media, how you can make a great first impression and [...]

Bloomberg grabs NetApp’s earnings early, second case in a week

NETAPP Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP) has become the second company in less than a week to have earnings information leaked from an unsecured area of its corporate website. Bloomberg confirmed to Dow Jones that it retrieved unpublished financial data from the company’s website more than an hour before its scheduled release. NASDAQ officials halted NetApp’s stock at [...]

Bloomberg moving into experiential media with new Surveillance product

The Bloomberg juggernaut continues to impress.  Not satisfied with more static, unidirectional programs on Bloomberg Radio and TV, Bloomberg is layering in more experiential type content.
Accompanying  Bloomberg Surveillance, a popular radio program hosted by Tom Keene and Ken Prewitt,  is a new program called Inside Surveillance.
For listeners and those interested in the show and [...]

The New Rules of Investing Guide to Finding a Job in Online Finance

Something few people know about me:  One of my first jobs upon graduating from college was as an analyst for Heidrick and Struggles, one of the premier executive search firms.
As a young, intellectually hungry econ grad, I did get a chance to work with some of the best (and worst) Fortune 500 companies to help [...]

Reuters Insider: good for financial content but not sure about investors

VOD for investors
Thomson Reuters unveiled its Reuters Insider product today. Geared towards clients of investment terminals, Insider is essentially an aggregator of video content, sucking in both Reuters proprietary content and that from outside partners.  It’s going to be like a professional version of Seeking Alpha — but with video, not text.
Trader You Tube?  [...]

Rock star hedge funds more like easy listening

Piggyback investing has made it so easy for investors to mimic the moves of the best and brightest — and most successful — asset managers.  The hardest part is figuring out whose portfolio moves to clone.

Today’s Bloomberg deals with the issue of super star, celebrity fund managers and a recent study into their performance.  It [...]

Investment newsletters REALLY bearish — time to buy?

Wow! Expectations that U.S. stocks will drop at least 10% has risen to the highest levels since April 1984.
In a recent survey of investment newsletters by Investors Intelligence, Bloomberg reports that:

The following are results from Investors Intelligence’s
analysis of investment newsletters for Jan. 27 through
yesterday. The company determines the proportion of writers who
are bullish and bearish [...]

Bloomberg beefing up reflects good things for financial industry

I’ve written about previously (here and here) about Bloomberg’s expansion and eventual dominance of financial media from news to data and consumer.  The WSJ reports today that indeed, Bloomberg is forecasting a respectable 10% growth rate for 2010 and plans to add an additional 1300 employees.
The revenue gains would come largely from a projected increase [...]

Bloomberg finds piggybacking analysts sucks

John Dorfman, investor and Bloomberg columnist, has been following the 4 most popular and hated stocks among Wall Street analysts for the past 11 years.
According to Dorfman’s research:
For 11 of the past 12 years, I have studied the performance of analysts’ four favorite stocks, and the fate of the four they most scorned…Their favorites, on [...]