Tag: high flyers
— 24 items —Straight talk from Ambac…
January 28, 2008—Late Friday, bond insurer Ambac (ABK) filed this 8K disclosing both a subpoena from the state of Massachusetts and a class action lawsuit, which had been reported earlier in the week (attorneys aren't usually shy about sending out press releases) and which you can read about
A House of Cards topples…
January 16, 2008—Way back in 2005, we footnoted an upstart home restoration company who set Internet message boards ablaze as it flew higher and higher. Home Solutions of America (HSOA.PK) was one of the "it" stocks of 2005/2006, racing from $1.41/share in May 2005 to an all-time high of ...
Suffering from deja vu…
November 1, 2007—A decade ago, I edited a bunch of stories about a company called WellCare, a fast-growing HMO that was based in Kingston, N.Y. Just looking at this press release from Feb. 1995 -- the presence of the words "record results" are one of the simplest, yet best contra-indicators ...
Filling in some gaps in the Blackberry…
October 10, 2007—Earlier this year, Blackberry-maker Research in Motion (RIMM) was looking wan. In April the SEC ratcheted its investigation of the firm's past stock option grant practices up to formal status. Federal prosecutors and Canadian regulators started poking around too, and the options mess led to ...




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