Archive for the 'market meltdown' Category

We were expecting a big dump on both Wednesday afternoon and again on Friday. Something good and juicy from some big-name company hoping to get lost in the Thanksgiving frenzy! Boy were we disappointed! According to the folks at SEC Watch, Fortune 1000 companies only filed 32 8Ks on Thursday and only 7 on Friday. [...]

This morning, there’s lots of buzz — unassisted by caffeine — over the fight over Diedrich Coffee (DDRX) which Peet’s (PEET) agreed to buy at the beginning of this month for $26 a share, but is now offering $32 a share after rival Green Mountain Coffee (GMCR) offered to buy Diedrich for $30 a share. [...]

Yesterday, there was a hearing in New York over the Lehman bankruptcy where Lehman CEO Bryan Marsal, who we’ve written about several times over the past year (see here and here). The big headline out of yesterday’s hearing was Marsal’s statement that claims against Lehman could top $1 trillion since the number of claims already [...]

As footnoted regulars know, Friday night is when the best stuff is dumped at the SEC. One of the last filings to come in this past Friday was this 8K filed by American International Group (AIG). The filing focuses on the new Special Master for Compensation rules that we footnoted last week. This Bloomberg story [...]

Every now and then, we come across a filing that truly makes us scratch our head. We’re just not quite sure what to make of it. And that’s exactly how we felt when we came across this Form 4 filed late yesterday by AIG. Maybe it’s because we don’t spend a lot of time digging [...]