"Imagine you could charge for lemonade without having to pay for lemons. That's Facebook. It remains one of the best businesses we've ever seen and is chronically misunderstood." -Clay Gardner, Titan Co-CEO & Chief Investment Officer
Interviews at top-bracket investment banks are known for including both financial accounting questions and brainteasers. These investment banking interviews are notoriously tricky—but at least applicants have an idea that they’re coming.
Stock market predictions are enough to give the average investor the bed spins. If you haven't started, the headline confusion is enough to cause people to start drinking.
Stock market predictions are enough to give the average investor the bed spins. If you haven't started, the headline confusion is enough to cause people to start drinking.
Rather than focus on the turmoil in Egypt or rehash a number of economic statistics that imply the economic recovery remains a steady but slow one characterized by modest job growth near term, let's instead look at another facet of the market.
Florida's largest financial institution, BankUnited (NYSE: BKU) started crumbling in the wake of the subprime mortgage collapse in 2007. It would eventually be seized by regulators and sold to a group of private investors in May 2009. All told, the collapse cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Protecting your assets from exogenous events should be a primary concern for all investors. We invest to make money, but even before that our No. 1 objective should be to avoid losing money. If the chaos in Egypt spreads, the effects on equities, currencies and commodities could be profound, and your objective should be on protecting your capital.
The Thematic Investor – Trinity Industries, Inc. (TRN; $25.17) – Earlier this week Trinity Industries declared its regular quarterly dividend of $0.08 per share and also announced a new $200 million share repurchase program.
The Thematic Investor – Big Lots (BIG; $28.57) Over the last two trading day, BIG shares have fallen roughly 9% after reporting a modest miss on 3Q10 earnings and revising its near term outlook slightly lower. Despite that revision, BIG is still on track to grow its earnings more than 26% in 2010 with further growth ahead in 2011.