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Though it’s been awhile since we last footnoted CIT Group (CIT), given the news over the past few days, it seemed like a good idea to take a closer look at their filings.
One of the things that immediately jumped out was the relatively long string of comment letters between the company and the SEC, some [...]
Remember last November, when the auto companies’ CEOs flew in their corporate jets to beg the Senate Banking Committee for a taxpayer-funded bailout? After that public relations fiasco, the CEOs assumed contrite tones, assured Americans that they “got it,” and promised to start running their companies in a more frugal manner.
As proof, when the [...]
In addition to handing out a Mercedes, donating to politicians and providing memberships to the Core Club, we can add filing at midnight to the growing list of contra-indicators we’ve uncovered here at footnoted.
How else to explain the news this morning over the departures of Alcatel-Lucents’s (ALU) top two executives, CEO Patricia Russo and Chairman [...]
Last January, we footnoted the strange sequence of events at Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW), which at the time was trading close to $30. In various presentations last winter and spring, I used the company as a case study, asking groups of participants to make either the bear or bull case on the company based on a [...]
Judging by what’s happening at MF Global (MF) today, it looks as if belonging to the ultra-exclusive Core Club may just be a contra-indicator. Footnoted regulars may remember that last month we footnoted about the sudden departure of CFO Amy Butte, whose parting gifts included continued Core Club access for the next 18 months.
On Jan. [...]
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