Bank bonus bonanza. The bonuses paid out to executives at nine banks that received government bailouts exceeded the net income of some of the banks, according to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, substantially so at Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM). Cuomo said employee pay "has become unmoored from the banks' financial performance," and that there is "no clear rhyme or reason to the way...
MarketWatch recently had an interesting piece on contrarian investment strategies, highlighting the fact that many of the contrarian managers who were hit hard last year are now netting some strong bounce-back gains.
"As the market has bounced back in recent weeks, [several] contrarian-style funds, with their bargain-minded ways, have been outperforming," writes MarketWatch's Sam Mamudi, discussing well-known contrarian managers like David Dreman, Bill Miller, and Marty Whitman.
Yesterday there were a couple of posts about how tech stocks are currently especially attractive because they hold plenty of cash and tend to have little debt. Paul Kedrosky initially caught my eye with his post "Tech Cash is King" which in turn pointed me to a story on Bloomberg by Eric Martin.
I ran a screen last night that looked at both cash and debt. Specifically, I screened for a Price-to-Cash ratio under three, a Debt-to-Equity ratio under three and a Market Cap greater...
Spotted by Google Blogscoped is a login page for Google Health,
Google?s (GOOG) entry into the online health records space. At the time of
writing the site isn?t allowing logins, but it does include this text:
With Google Health, you can:
* Build online health profiles that belong to you
* Download medical records from doctors and pharmacies
* Get personalized health guidance and relevant news
* Find qualified doctors and connect to time-saving services
* Share...
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