A toast to Anchorwoman Kim
If you work on a Canadian trading desk or in a brokerage field office, you know who I’m talking about. Today is Kim Parlee’s last day as a host of BNN Business News Network’s Business Day. She...
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Corporate cash balances are just half the story
For the last 12 months, I’ve had the pleasure of charging over to the Business News Network’s Toronto studio at Queen & John each week to spend some time on set with Kim Parlee...
Decade of Daddy Mirror Fund Annual Report #4
Things are so busy at my real job that I’ve not had a moment to update you all on the status of the Decade of Daddy Mirror Fund as at the end of June...
The path to making Nexen / CNOOC deal of "net benefit"
Four years have probably passed since I joined BNN Television Anchor Kim Parlee on her old Squeeze Play set to warn about the recent spate of takeovers in the resources industry, particularly from nation...
JPM losses expose the absence of post-crisis "regulation"
News item: Sen. Bob Corker requests Congressional hearing on JP Morgan derivative losses At last, JP Morgan (JPM:NYSE) shareholders and their politcal representatives might find out exactly what transpired within the JPM Chief Investment...
Estupendo Venezuela!
Lovin’ Venezuela right now! BNN’s Kim Parlee has teased me on and off for months about my two Venezuelan bond holdings. I imagine her concern was that there would always be an event, just...
Rigor In Mortis?
That’s the plan? Do a better job of executing while promoting the same ops guy that led the team to a one year delay in the BB10? I’m trying to imagine what the share...
The herd gets on board EuroTARP
Based on comments this am from CNBC’s Joe “The Hair” Kernen, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson needs to get over to Europe and sheperd a new TARP program. Today’s lead editorial in The...
BNN wants your budget deficit reduction ideas
Treasury Board President Tony Clement has taken over the reins of a process to find $4 billion of reductions to the annual Canadian federal budget. If you didn’t see Kim Parlee and I on...
Why no flow-thru shares for Canada's Innovation economy?
The 14 year decline in venture capital funding for Canadian-based innovation companies continues, with the 2009 3rd quarter VC funding stats as bleak as people expected. What to do? Although the Canadian Venture Capital...
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