Entries tagged "investing"
To better coordinate financial regulation and deal with volatile markets effectively, securities regulators from across the globe formed three task forces to target short selling, hedge funds and unregulated financial trading, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox announced late Monday....
On Blue Mondays like this:Howard Lindzon explains that you must survive, even when a financial meltdown is upon us. FT Alphaville reports that repenting and praying might do some good. Evan Newmark of WSJ's "Mean Street" is betting against the odds buying financial stocks.New Jersey is feeling the economic woes, according to The New York Times. What if they gave a bailout and nobody noticed? Howard Schweber will tell you. Financial blogger Paul Kedrosky suggests the Banking Crisis of 1872 is a better analogy than the Great Depression. - Maria Woehr ...
How is the economy affecting venture capital investing? In this episode of Inside The Deal, Crosslink Capital co-founder Michael Stark speaks with The Deal's Mary Kathleen Flynn about his firm's unusual hybrid model of investing in both public and private companies and how his firm is handling the latest challenges in the public markets. Watch the video after the break. - Maria Woehr ...
Investor John Templeton has passed away. Carol Vinzant of Blogging Stocks does a nice job of summing up how Templeton furthered investment in emerging markets. - Maria Woehr...
At The Deal's Fifth Annual Private Capital Symposium, Raquel Palmer, a partner at KPS Special Situations Fund, discussed distressed markets and opportunities in the marketplace. Palmer said that there is a downturn in the market that is going to last at least 36 months, which has been fueled by the debt market. "The best companies that we are looking for are companies that have fixable operational problems and tend to have a large market share," Palmer explained....
