| Lear Management: Unintentional Comedians Brendan Wagner submits:Lear is back folks. Well almost back. They're about to re-emerge from bankruptcy, after wiping out holders of the previous class of common stock. Barclays was out Thursday morning upgrading what I'll assume are the "new" shares. They're probably making a good call -- now that management owns enough of the new shares to actually care about the equity holders in this new "structure." I put this info out there not because I enjoy ranting about inept management, but rather as a warning to people who assume common stock ownership is (1) as safe as you think it is, and (2) that management is on your side all the time.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |
Buffett's BNI Buy and the White House Rail Projects Agenda Ira Stoll submits: Back on November 3, after Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK.A) deal to acquire the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railroad (BNI) was announced, FutureOfCapitalism.com wrote:Compare Burlington Northern Santa Fe's route map with the map of proposed high speed rail projects competing for $8 billion in federal stimulus funding and you can get a sense of some of the opportunities for Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |
Titan International, Inc. Q1 2010 Earnings Call Transcript Titan International, Inc. (TWI)Q1 2010 Earnings Call TranscriptApril 26, 2010 9:00 am ETComplete Story » seekingalpha.com |
The Best Peak Oil Investments: 9 Mass Transit Stocks Tom Konrad (AltEnergyStocks) submits: Americans are notoriously attached to their cars, but high oil prices in 2007 and 2008 led many to get on a bus or train. According to a 2009 paper Transit Ridership Models: Present Status and Future Needs [pdf] by Grace Galluci and John D Allen, Ph.D. from Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority, current published transit ridership models do not yet incorporate changes in gasoline prices. The authors consider this a serious omission, since, in addition to the obvious intuitive link between gas prices and ridership, they found a strong correlation between gas prices and transit ridership using CRTA ridership data and local gasoline prices. The following chart comes from this paper, and shows ridership following the local gas price (with a slight lag.) Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |
AMR Corporation CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results - Earnings Call Transcript AMR Corporation (AMR) Q3 2010 Earnings Conference Call October 20, 2010 02:00 pm ESTComplete Story » seekingalpha.com |