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November 18, 2010 – 12:30 am
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 Bloomberg confirmed to Dow Jones that it retrieved unpublished financial data from the company’s website more than an hour before its scheduled release.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 [...]
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October 14, 2010 – 7:39 am
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 [...]
October 12, 2010 – 6:45 am
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 [...]
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? [...]
By New Rules of Investing
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Also tagged BusinessWeek, financial advisors, financial content, financial reporting, industry news, insider, investing, investment site, new products, new rules, reuters, tradestream, trading, video
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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 [...]
By New Rules of Investing
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Also tagged asset allocation, financial advisors, hedge funds, industry news, invest, new rules, piggyback, piggyback investing, stock, tradestream, trading
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February 4, 2010 – 8:30 am
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 [...]
February 4, 2010 – 6:35 am
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 [...]
January 19, 2010 – 6:30 am
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 [...]