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...would be affected by its bankruptcy, the issues are more prosaic. Consider that scores of suppliers could go under if GM does. Or think of the money owed to hundreds of companies that provide all manner of services to GM. One creditor in the Enron bankruptcy was a local lock-and-safe company; another was an airport car-service firm. Hiring out-of-state lawyers, traveling and staying for months in a city far from home - these might be prohibitive costs to outfits already reeling from GM's fate. "There is no district in this country that has a greater...
...just over three weeks. Many analysts say that there is no reason that the run-up should be so sharp. The rally would be more "sustainable" if the climb was gradual and slower. That is probably true. Cautious investors are inclined to sell stocks that move up quickly to lock in profits. They are afraid that the market can't go up forever. Those sentiments undercut future advances in stock prices. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
This is in large part because of how PE firms are structured: they lock up investors' money for a decade and rake in 2% annual fees even when their investments tank. When they borrow money to buy a company, the debt gets stuck on the company's books, not theirs. As a result, most have been able to effectively hold their breath through the turmoil...
...Bloomberg stories stated that the interest rate swaps dated back to former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ tenure, when Harvard began considering its ambitious Allston campus expansion. With interest rates favorably low and little inflation on the horizon, the University decided to use the swaps to lock in the rates. But instead, interest continued to decline, wreaking havoc on the swaps, which Forbes branded “The Summers Swap.”As of October, the University would have had to pay $571 million to terminate its interest rate swap portfolio. The figure represents a stark decrease...
...whose blocking group was walking along the river at the time, said that Cambridge police were taking the tougher line, threatening, “‘If you don’t back away from the river in 30 seconds, we’re gonna lock...