Options Action: Spotting Takeover Targets
Posted on 28 December, 2010
With U.S. targeted mergers & acquisitions up 11 percent this year and takeover speculation moving the markets, see how options action may reveal which names could be takeover targets.
George Weston $1Billion Blown Opportunity
Posted on 16 December, 2010
Back in January 2009, when the financial markets were collapsing, George Weston was the envy of the market. It was flush with cash as it had just sold its US bakery business for $2.3 billion to Mexico’s largest bakery, Grupo Bimbo. Not in a hundred years could a company be better positioned to feast on such famine. For blown opportunities, this will certainly go down as one.
With Inflation On The Rise, Stagflation Ready To Rear Its Ugly Head
Posted on 12 December, 2010
Thus far, Fed officials have taken comfort that surveys and bond-market behavior suggest the public expects the inflation rate to fall. But that credibility is now in endangered. Prices of many other raw materials continue to surge, with gold, silver, cotton and sugar reaching record highs. The effects are rippling from financial trading floors to local stores, forcing consumers to shell out more for everyday basics — a cup of coffee, a box of cereal, a gallon of gasoline.
Employers Doing More With Less
Posted on 06 December, 2010
The problem with bringing down the stubbornly high unemployment rate is that employers are learning to do more with less.
Employers still aren’t hiring enough. Just look at November’s disappointing employment report, which barely eked out a gain in jobs. Or better yet, look at the holiday workers at your local mall. If you can find [...]
