Archive for: accounting

Skyworks Retires $20.4M of Debt – Analyst Blog

Skyworks Solutions, Inc. ( SWKS ) announced that it retired $20.4 million of convertible notes with an original maturity date of March 2012 in the last week. The...

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Henry Waxman’s War on Accounting

Accounting basics: when a company experiences what accountants call “a material adverse impact” on its expected future earnings, and those changes affect...

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Obamacare To Cost American Families $15,200 A Year

Terence P. Jeffrey CNSNews.com March 22, 2010 The U.S. House of Representatives voted 219-212 on Sunday night to socialize health care in the United States, making...

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CIT Posts Loss on Higher Costs – Analyst Blog

On Tuesday, CIT Group Inc. ( CIT ) reported a net income of $3.2 billion, including the reorganization benefit under the post-bankruptcy accounting known as Fresh...

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The Video That Can Put Geithner Behind Bars

The NY Fed, and likely Geithner himself, undermined, perhaps even violated, laws designed to protect investors and markets. Lots of chatter on the web pointing fingers...

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Take the Name out of the Game

Why is trading so difficult for so many people? For myself and the millions of others who engage in the market the quest to be a good trader is an elusive one. Countless...

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Why Financials Really Are in Trouble

An end to our woes is as premature as Jim Cramer calling an end to the depression fears. Unemployment will continue to climb. Consumer spending will suffer. And...

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India, China Central Banks Rather Have Gold Than Dollars

Let’s review the big picture for gold. What’s going on? And what are people saying? For much of 2009, gold traded in the range of low-mid $900 per ounce....

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