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8 Aug 2008, 1:30 pm
From DealBook colleague Floyd Norris on Notions on High and Low Finance: Here's another risk for companies to consider disclosing in their financial statements: People might say nasty things about them in Internet chat rooms. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 9:19 pm
Keep in mind that as Floyd Norris pointed out last month, that doesn’t include any losses from second mortgages. [read post]
16 Jul 2008, 11:56 am
This comes on the heels of a SEC press release from Sunday - yes, Sunday (see Floyd Norris' thoughts on that move) - that seeks to stem rumor mongering. [read post]
10 Jul 2008, 6:50 pm
That’s a $90K drop from just last month and considerably less than the $1.1 million that Countrywide appears to be on the hook for as Floyd Norris noted last month. [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 11:49 am
Unfortunately, The New York Times’ Floyd Norris says in his latest column, no one seems to have gotten that message through to Lehman Brothers, the embattled brokerage house that is now fighting to persuade the financial markets that it will not be the [...] [read post]
6 Jun 2008, 12:21 pm
Note: Thanks to Michelle’s posts about the Florida “sex house” financed by Countrywide Financial (CFC), footnoted earned a nice mention in Floyd Norris’s High and Low Finance column in today’s NY Times. [read post]
2 Jun 2008, 4:44 am
The amazing circumstances of the fraud at Société Générale are often held up to illustrate the point of how easy it is for a company to break international accounting rules, get away with it, have its independent auditors bless it, with no major regulatory ramifications (read this Floyd Norris column and an Accounting Onion blog for more). [read post]
28 May 2008, 12:46 pm
As noted in an article by Floyd Norris of the New York Times, a panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled in Jones v. [read post]
20 May 2008, 3:27 pm
Floyd Norris, in his May 16, 2008 New York Times column with the great title "Color-Blind in a Sea of Red Flags," asked whether any investor would want to invest money at a low interest rate to finance mortgages for risky borrowers who put no money down. [read post]
25 Apr 2008, 4:37 am
The New York Times’ Floyd Norris argues that while many of the new rules the S.E.C. is likely to consider are [...] [read post]
18 Apr 2008, 4:57 am
And although some of Wall Street chieftains are now predicting the worst is over, The New York Times’ Floyd Norris wonders if the optimism isn’t overdone. [read post]
31 Mar 2008, 5:34 am
" Over at "Notions on High and Low Finance", Floyd Norris worries that a sentence in the letter provides the magic weasel words for companies to avoid writing down damaged goods to an estimated fair value: ""Under SFAS 157, it is appropriate for you to consider actual market prices, or observable inputs, even when the market is less liquid than historical market volumes, unless those prices are the result of a forced liquidation or distress sale. [read post]
17 Mar 2008, 5:32 am
From DealBook’s colleague Floyd Norris on Notions on High and Low Finance: Number of years in which annual loss was reported: 0 Book value per share at end of fiscal 2007 (Nov. 30): $84.09 Price at which company agreed to be acquired by J.P. [read post]
29 Feb 2008, 2:44 am
Floyd Norris shows why he's one of the most respected business writers around -- and lives up to a journalist's highest calling, to demand government accountability -- in his "High & Low Finance" column today. [read post]
20 Feb 2008, 4:36 am
As municipal bond auctions continue to fail â€â [read post]
18 Feb 2008, 1:02 pm
Posted by: Paul Rose In Friday's New York Times, Floyd Norris discusses a case in which a hacker obtained material, non-public information and made $296,456 in trading profits. [read post]
18 Feb 2008, 1:00 pm
Posted by: Paul Rose In Friday's New York Times, Floyd Norris discusses a case in which a hacker obtained material, non-public information and made $296,456 in trading profits. [read post]
18 Feb 2008, 12:59 pm
Posted by: Paul Rose In Friday's New York Times, Floyd Norris discusses a case in which a hacker obtained material, non-public information and made $296,456 in trading profits. [read post]
10 Feb 2008, 6:03 pm
Executives take pot shots at writers who question the company and its management… writers like Herb Greenberg, Gary Weiss, Floyd Norris, Zac Bissonnette, and others. [read post]
22 Jan 2008, 7:10 am
Floyd Norris, the chief financial correspondent for The New York Times, is already in Davos for the event. [read post]
