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Corporate Share Buybacks Looking Dumber By The Day

November 26, 2018

Corporate Share Buybacks Looking Dumber By The Day A recent MarketWatch article notes that: GE was one of Wall Street’s major share buyback operators between 2015 and 2017; it repurchased $40 billion of shares at prices between $20 and $32. The share price is now $8.60, so the company has liquidated between $23 billion and […]

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Weekly Commentary: Canary in the Credit Market’s Coal Mine

November 18, 2018

Weekly Commentary: Canary in the Credit Market’s Coal Mine What ever happened to “Six Sigma”?  GE was one of the most beloved and hyped S&P500 stocks during the late-nineties Bubble Era. With “visionary” Jack Welch at the helm, GE was being transformed into a New Age industrial powerhouse – epitomizing the greater revolution of the […]

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The Intolerable Scourge of Fake Capitalism

November 17, 2018

The Intolerable Scourge of Fake Capitalism Investment Grade Junk All is now bustle and hubbub in the late months of the year.  This goes for the stock market too. If you recall, on September 22nd the S&P 500 hit an all-time high of 2,940.  This was nearly 100 points above the prior high of 2,847, which […]

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Debt is back but this time its corporate

October 31, 2018

Debt is back but this time its corporate On Wednesday Feb 7th 2007 HSBC issued a profit warning.  It was the first in its 142 year history. The bank told its share holders it would have to take an unprecedented charge of $10.5 billion because one of its units, its sub prime lender, was in […]

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Wave of Corporate Bankruptcies Coming: GE Warns About its Subprime Mortgage Unit

May 3, 2018

Wave of Corporate Bankruptcies Coming: GE Warns About its Subprime Mortgage Unit Earlier today I commented to a friend about corporate bankruptcies. A few hours later, another friend Emailed about GE. Earlier today a friend pinged me with this story: U.S.Personal Spending Outpaces Income Growth For 26th Straight Month. He commented: “Hey, a lot of […]

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Record Financial Engineering Will Goose Stocks: Goldman

April 29, 2015

Record Financial Engineering Will Goose Stocks: Goldman GE, in order to paper over a net loss of $13.6 billion and declining revenues in the first quarter, said on April 10 that it would buy back $50 billion of its own shares. That’s on top of the $10.8 billion in actual buybacks last year. The announcement was […]

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