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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Bill Ackman is the Sabrina Rubin Erderly of anti-MLM campaigners

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There is plenty of nasty stuff that happens on university campuses - so Sabrina Rubin Erderly wrote a story about a rape at University of V...
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Herbalife after options expiry - Part III: What is UBS's game?

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We now know one of the the new shareholders that Herbalife has after option expiry. My count is that there are more new and large shareholde...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Herbalife after option expiry - Part II: counting shorts and longs

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With Herbalife at $31 then any puts that Ackman has (and we know the prices of them) are in the money so far that their delta is  almost one...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Vale Saxo Bank

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If this story in the Danish press is correct Saxo Bank is not long for this world. Good riddance. Hope the gamblers (ahem: customers) get ...
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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Herbalife after the January option expiry: Part 1

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I have deliberately refrained from writing about Herbalife until the 17 January 2015 option expiry. We know from public disclosures that P...
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Friday, January 16, 2015

It is time to close Saxo Bank down

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Saxo Bank is a retail foreign exchange trading bank. The idea of forex trading as a retail product is mildly offensive any way. [I simply ca...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

The return of cookie-jar earnings: United Technologies edition

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I was just listening to a November presentation made by United Technologies - a large and very fine American company. Mostly I was listening...
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Monday, January 5, 2015

A comment on current Chinese vs Second World War Iron Ore demand

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China uses roughly 700 million tonnes of steel per year (or at least used that much before recent declines). Really good iron ore  62 perc...
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Saturday, January 3, 2015

A shameless plug for the Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation

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I have agreed with and disagreed with Roddy Boyd more than once in the past year. Sometimes I have agreed with him on the analysis but not o...
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Monday, December 15, 2014

Oil and helicopters

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I am reading the  annual report from United Technologies - which owns, amongst other things, a helicopter company. To quote: On the com...
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