 |
|
|
|
 |
|||
Here at footnoted, we spend most of our time reading SEC filings — lots and lots of SEC filings. And while there are certainly plenty of interesting tidbits buried in those filings, most filings tend to be pretty dull affairs visually speaking. So imagine our surprise when we came across this PowerPoint presentation that Abercrombie [...]
I’ve just returned from the annual South by Southwest conference (or South by as most people in Austin call it), where I was on an interesting panel on the future of XBRL and got marketed to by every company (and their distant cousins). Despite the circus-like atmosphere — CNN had its own pop-up restaurant called the CNN [...]
The New York Times published an article yesterday which reported that – for the first time in 15 years – more bank branches closed last year than opened. The troubling part is that a disproportionate number of those closures happened in poor areas, while a disproportionate number of new branches opened in wealthy areas. Sources for [...]
Every day for the past 3-1/2 weeks, the events — and images — coming out of Egypt have been captivating the world’s attention. But it’s only been more recently that the situation has begun to filter into SEC filings. In its earnings release yesterday, Apache Corp. (APA) actually took the unusual step of wishing the [...]
As footnoted regulars know, we often engage in a parlor game called “guess the next M&A” target. One of our recent successes was our prediction — all the way back in March 2009 — that Jo-Ann Stores (JAS) would be taken over. At the time, the company was trading at just over $14. When the [...]
