BP just released the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, which is published annually, and covers consumption, production and other statistics on oil, natural gas and other forms of energy for ...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2010/06/statistical-review-of-world-energy.html
The Federal Reserve Bank of New has added a new section to its web site detailing the assistance that the bank has extended to AIG during the financial crisis. This aid was given, according to ...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2010/06/fed-details-aig-aid.html
Those investors that dabble in the Energy Sector are probably familiar with Arthur Berman, who runs a blog called the Petroleum Truth Report , and has staked his reputation on a bearish point of ...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2010/02/berman-is-back.html
I came across an interesting comment from Dick Costolo, the Chief Operating Officer of Twitter, as reported on Bloomberg News: "We have to catch up to our valuation," Costolo said. “We’ve ra...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2010/01/twitter-comment.html
It's time once again for the annual Lympho-Maniac Charity Event held once a year in the spring in New Orleans. If you are not familiar with this event, it is organized by Chad Landry, an institut...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2010/01/lympho-maniac-charity-event.html
Another part of the Outlook for Energy: A View to 2030, released by Exxon Mobil a week before the XTO Energy deal really bothers me. "ExxonMobil technologies have unlocked vast new resources of ...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/12/exxon-mobil-xto-energy-part-ii.html
Christopher H. Browne of Tweedy, Browne & Co. died a few days ago and in memory of this value investor, here are excerpts from a speech he made to the Graham and Dodd Value Investing Center at Co...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/12/christopher-h-browne.html
Exxon Mobil released a publication entitled Outlook for Energy: A View to 2030, about a week before the XTO Energy purchase. There was one part that caught my attention and gave a little hint of ...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/12/exxon-mobil-xto-energy.html
A recent academic study called Financial Crises and Economic Activity, written by Stephen G Cecchetti, Marion Kohler and Christian Upper, has implications for the current strength and trend of th...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-bad-could-it-have-been.html
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) recently released its third quarter of 2009 Quarterly Banking Profile detailing a host of statistics on the banks under its jurisdiction. This rep...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/12/fdic-report.html
It was reported today that Motorola (MOT) is shopping around its division that makes set top boxes and other equipment for cable and phone companies. The rumored asking price is around $4.5 billi...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-destroy-value.html
I ran across an academic article recently that I haven't had time to read yet, but thought I would share it with readers of this blog. The Financial Crisis as a Symbol of the Failure of Academi...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/10/interesting-articles.html
I have blogged constantly about the value and importance of long term investing, and a recent report from the Aspen Institute came out with some practical proposals to fight what they call "short...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/09/short-termism-in-market.html
Another green shoot in the economy hit the tape last week: "FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) today announced that it expects to report earnings of $0.58 per diluted share for the first quarter ende...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/09/another-greenshoot.html
Am I the only BJ Services (BJS) shareholder out there who thinks that this is a lousy deal? Is there any hope for a competing bid? BJ Services traded close to $40 back in 2006, and was as high as...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/08/bj-services-take-under.html
An article entitled "Behavioural Bias and Conflicts of Interest in Analyst Stock Recommendations " published in the Journal of Business Finance & Accounting examines these issues: "Whether sell-...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/08/article-shows-that-sell-side-analysts.html
There has been a lot of media attention on the continuing debate over the Obama Health Care proposals that are tortuously making its way through the U.S. legislative process. Well here is another...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/08/health-insurance-debate.html
The ancient battle between Value and Growth investing continues, with Barron's weighing in with its take on the issue. It's starting to remind me of the Hundred Year's War between France and Engl...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/08/value-vs-growth.html
Matt Taibbi’s article on Goldman Sachs has now achieved legendary status for the term he coined in this sentence: “The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped ...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/07/real-vampire-squid-on-face-of-humanity.html
Does anyone remember a year ago when everyone pundit and media outlet predicted that Sovereign Wealth Funds were going to take over the world? The assets they controlled were growing so quickly d...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/07/sovereign-wealth-funds.html
Steve Forbes drags Julius Caesar into the current financial crisis in a video from late June 2009. He compares Caesar's hubris to that of those who led our financial system into disaster. Hubri...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/07/steve-forbes-video.html
Here’s the real issue behind the fall of the Newspaper industry. What will all those bloggers do when there are no newspapers left and they can’t scrape content from a newspaper while hiding ...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-will-end-of-newspapers-mean-for.html
"The International Energy Agency cut its oil demand estimates for every year through 2013 by about 3 million barrels a day, it said in its Medium- Term Oil Market Report today. Consumption will a...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/06/so-much-for-chinese-demand.html
James Mulva, the CEO of Conoco Phillips said that the doubling in the price of oil off of its bottom to $73 a barrel was "a little bit ahead of the actual supply and demand situation and inventor...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/06/two-more-oil-bears.html
General Motors was formed in 1908 by William Durant, when he incorporated the Buick Motor Company. Later that year, Oldsmobile becomes the second company to join General Motors. In 1909, General ...
http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/06/when-general-motors-ruled-world-part.html