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We’re heading into the home-stretch before big companies following a calendar year run up against the deadline for filing their second-quarter 10-Qs. That means filings are light these days, but somehow there’s always a few doozies in the mix. One of the items catching our eye this week is the unflattering reappointment of William F. [...]
All eyes in official Washington are on the debt ceiling, that self-imposed borrowing limit that was technically reached on Monday. By temporarily halting federal retirement-fund investments, the day of reckoning — that is, absent an increase in the limit, the day the federal government would have to decide whether to default on its debt or [...]
Risk factors in SEC filings often seem like boilerplate that the attorneys throw in to cover every conceivable possibility of things that could go wrong. One of these days, we wouldn’t be surprised to find a risk factor that says something along the lines of “Our CFO may catch the flu from his Aunt Edna, [...]
Filings by Apple (AAPL) can get picked over pretty thoroughly by everyone from investors to tech bloggers, so sometimes we let the dust settle a bit before checking whether our reading of a given filing brought anything new to light. With the most recent 10-Q, filed last week, we found a few interesting details. None [...]
When tough times hit, and companies and individuals alike cut back on spending, usually discretionary and big-ticket items are the first to go. As you might imagine, that can be bad news for a lot of companies — particularly one marketing breast implants, Botox and the modern equivalent of stomach stapling. And so it is, [...]
