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They may be putting up the Christmas Tree over on Daley Plaza, but it’s unseasonably balmy here in Chicago this week. Still, we couldn’t help but chuckle when we read a line in this transition agreement between Aon Corp. (AON) and outgoing COO Andrew Appel that was filed yesterday: enclosed office space and secretarial assistance [...]
Foreign languages offer so many great daydreams… the fantasy of ordering lunch in fluent French at a small bistro in Dijon, perhaps, or imagining yourself sharing a laugh with the clerk who just sold you a ticket at the train station in Stuttgart. We don’t know if Stephen Swad thinks like we do or not, [...]
The last time we checked in on A. Schulman (SHLM), they were selling a fishing camp to their former CEO for a song. That disclosure, which was buried in a footnote, earned them the top prize in our annual “Footnote of the Year” contest in 2008. And it remains one of our favorite finds in [...]
Since September 9, when one of Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E) natural gas transmission pipes ruptured and resulted in the San Bruno fire, the company filed four SEC filings that mention the explosion. PG&E – which has about 20,000 employees and delivers electricity and natural gas to about 15 million people in northern and [...]
It seems like such a cliché: bury the stuff you hope your investors never find out about after the market closes on Friday. Indeed, it’s almost as much of a cliché as the Monday morning merger announcement, of which there are several this morning, including Wal-Mart’s (WMT) $4.25 billion deal to buy Massmart in Africa [...]
