Blog Entries tagged 'Heard on the Street'

Another Name Brand bites the BoomBust!

reggie@reggiemiddleton.com — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:00:00 +0100

From Bloomberg: Falcone's Harbinger Capital Faces Potential $200 Million Loss on Navistar

Harbinger Capital Partners, the New York-based hedge-fund firm run by Philip Falcone, has almost $200 million in potential losses on bets that Navistar International Corp.’s stock price would rise.

Harbinger bought swap contracts on 4.55 million shares of Navistar that would gain if the truck maker’s shares rose above certain prices, according to [...]

Blog vs. Broker, whom do you trust!

reggie@reggiemiddleton.com — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:00:00 +0100

The Name Brand - that bastion of marketing that the finance and investment industries have come to rely on to convince those who should no better to do things that they shouldn't -has come under attack. "Attack by who?", you may ask. Attack by me, Reggie. "Who the hell is Reggie?" you ask. Well, a quick bio , and a list of writings that have brought use here so we can move on...

In the past week or two I attempted to debunk the "'Name Brand' is the best"
mentality o [...]