Topic: Mark Mitchell

Overstock. com (OSTK) has been in the share-price doldrums lately. One reason has been the continuing legal travails surrounding its CEO, Patrick...
Posted on 10/03/11 at 2:27pm by Webmaster . New Brand Marks Changes in Ownership, Evolution From Boutique to Midsize Marketing Agency. . Fort...

Skylight Manufacturer Announces New Appointment

Wausau, WI, April 24, 2011 -(PR.com)- Major Industries, Inc., a local manufacturer of skylights and translucent curtainwall, is pleased to announce...
We were prompted by a new paper from California's Research Affiliates that concludes merger arbitrage produces returns that are very similar to a short put position on the S&P 500. Similarly, Research Affiliates' Shane Shepherd found that the market beta ...
OSTK) has stubbornly refused to correct recent Q4 2008 GAAP violations, exposed last week by this blog that allowed the company to improperly report a $1 million profit, rather than an $800,000 net loss. com CEO Patrick Byrne was caught trying ...
(NAB) raised A$2.5 billion ($1.7 billion) in an issue of . series of capital raisings by Australian banks moving to . bonds following a programme put in place last week to guarantee . Australian banks have raised over $11 billion equivalent in ...
American Airlines adds services for first- and business-class customersAmerican Airlines, under fire for poor customer-satisfaction ratings, said Monday it will add check-in and boarding services for top customers including those traveling in first- or business-class.American, the nation's largest carrier, said ...
Floyd Norris of the New York Times yesterday addressed one of the central tenets of the anti-naked-shorting movement, which has been to portray every financial scandal out there -- even when there is zero evidence-- as " Floyd's column concerned the latest rant ...

Collateral Damage From the War on Shorts

CJR Online's Audit column discusses a provocative issue -- how the SEC's politically motivated campaign against short selling has hurt business journalism. The Audit also points out that media has failed to cover a possible short squeeze in shares of the ...

Stop Listening to Bankers' Talking Heads

While the ECB and BoE stand pat in their efforts to fight rising inflation with borrowing rates of 4% and 5% respectively, the US Federal Reserve has lowered its rate seven times in seven months to 2%.. The 15-nation Euro bloc covers ...