by Tim Delaney | Nov 20, 2012
Consider the sad story of UBS. In 2007 it suffered $38 billion in losses on mortgage back securities, requiring a $60 billion capital infusion from the Swiss government to keep from going under. In 2008 it paid out $19 billion to clients it had duped into buying...
by Tim Delaney | Nov 9, 2012
Tesla Motors has drawn a lot of attention for its sleek, high-performing electric cars. Its Roadster has been an enviro-celebrity favorite for several years, and its new Model S sedan is getting great reviews. The company has been trying to scale up to large-scale...
by Tim Delaney | Sep 1, 2012
Last October, David Einhorn, head of Greenlight Capital, a hedge fund famous for taking short positions in Lehman Brothers’ shares before Lehman failed, attacked Green Mountain Coffee Roasters’ in a presentation at an investors’ conference. It was a...
by Tim Delaney | Jun 23, 2012
The shipping industry is in rough waters lately. In many categories, global capacity exceeds demand, and shipping rates and ship values have sunk to near-abyssal lows. Take the VLCC (“very large capacity carrier”) tanker business, for example. Back in 2005...
by Tim Delaney | Mar 10, 2012
Kodak’s cash burn was a big concern among analysts in the last months before the firm’s bankruptcy in January of this year. Cash burn is a term that gets thrown around a lot when companies are in trouble, but it’s hard to find a definition for it in books on...
