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Watching for the bulls to return…

Friday, February 26th, 2010

As the SEC deadline looms for large accelerated filers to file their 10-Ks by Monday, we’re reviewing literally hundreds of filings a day.  Besides disclosing the state of their own debts, revenues, legal affairs (and so much more!), many companies are also discussing the state of the economy and what they think the future holds. [...]

More AIG to start the new year…

Monday, January 4th, 2010

In some ways, it seems a bit sad to do the very first footnoted post of 2010 on AIG (AIG), which so dominated the news in 2009. But since the company filed one of the last 8Ks on Thursday afternoon, we just couldn’t ignore it for the sake of starting the year off with a [...]

TFS Financial Corp. Discusses its Loan Woes

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Given the paucity of filings on Friday, we couldn’t help but pay attention to the 10-K that TFS Financial Corp. (TFSL) filed. The company actually tried to sneak it in late Wednesday — around 6:30 pm. But the SEC was closed for Thanksgiving by then so it wound up getting accepted on Friday morning. Granted, [...]

Hank Greenberg wins T-Day dump award!

Monday, November 30th, 2009

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. [...]

Coffee as an economic indicator…

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

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. [...]