When enough isn’t enough
Apparently Martha Stewart's fall from grace in 2001 (which stemmed from an insider trading scandal that netted all of $45,673) wasn't enough of a cautionary tale to David Sokol.
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Apparently Martha Stewart's fall from grace in 2001 (which stemmed from an insider trading scandal that netted all of $45,673) wasn't enough of a cautionary tale to David Sokol.
September 24, 2010
The recession might (technically) be over, but the hangover lingers for tenants and landlords. Many tenants are no longer fully utilizing the space they occupied in 2008, so they have excess capacity to sublet or expand into without taking on a new lease. This doesn't bode well for landlords looking to fill their vacant buildings.
September 17, 2010
Forbes Insights, in association with CIT, recently published the report “U.S. Small Business and Middle Market Outlook 2010”.
August 30, 2010
Price-to-Earnings Ratios have been falling for blue chip companies amid the current downturn. The reason? Uncertainty about future earnings.
July 21, 2010
The venture capital industry rode high up to and during the dot-com boom but has suffered a vicious cycle of losses since the bubble burst. U.S. venture-capital funds raised each year from 1999 to 2007 have posted median annualized returns ranging from a 0.3% gain to a 7.7% loss, says research firm Preqin. Not surprisingly, fund raising has now come to a near halt.
June 21, 2010
Forget the improving economy. Entrepreneurs still find it hard to get loans. Here's why we're in this mess—and how we may get out of it. By EMILY MALTBY of the Wall Street Journal
June 1, 2010
(Artlicle published by Feeley & Driscoll). In measuring your financial strength by comparing it to past company performance and industry averages, your management team will gain insight into which goals the company has achieved and where it’s fallen short, with tangible ratios for reference.
May 28, 2010
The U.S. House of Representatives has just begun floor debate on a proposal to tax the "carried interest" of private equity and venture capital firms as ordinary income rather than capital gains. Link here to article by Dan Primack of peHUB.
May 27, 2010
For most banks and finance companies with more than $1 billion in assets, commercial lending is typically segmented into Large Corporate, Middle Market, and Business Banking. “Middle Market” and these other segments are generally understood to describe a type of borrower, whereas “ABL” (asset based lending) refers to a type of loan.
May 26, 2010
There were 90 venture capital fundings in New England in Q1 2010, according to the PwC/NVCA MoneyTree™ Report based on data from Thomson Reuters. That represents a 23% increase over the same quarter in 2009. The recently published report details venture capital activity nationally for Q1 2010, as well as 2009 and prior years.
March 31, 2011
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