[Founder Joshua] Friedman says the meltdown had an impact on the firm even during its off-site meeting in September 2008, an annual event in which Canyon brings in financial experts to speak to its traders and analysts. In the middle of a beach volleyball team-building exercise in Santa Barbara, employees suddenly brought the game to a halt to strategize about a momentary upturn in the market. [Bloomberg via BI]
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There’s one person in particular the government seems to just be dying to get it’s hands on but up until this moment, no one has had the vaguest clue– none whatsoever!– as to who it could possibly be, nor has there been nary a hint. Until now.
Mr. Gasparino said, “Regulatory sources are telling the FOX Business Network that the FBI, the Justice Department, are using the same techniques they used against the mobs and against terrorists. There is a gentleman in the middle they want to snare.”
“Sources are telling us among those top players in the middle Steve Cohen the head of SAC Capital is clearly on the radar screen. The lower level guys are the people they are looking to arrest, flip, gain information from, and make the case against the top guy. It is classic mob related, terrorist related investigation.”
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Well in case if you were wondering if I ever get up from my desk, here’s evidence to the contrary, courtesy of this morning’s San Francisco Chronicle. In the photo, taken at yesterday’s Apple product launch event, that’s me in the middle; the Apple aficionado on the right is my [...]
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Smart Technologies (SMT), which makes digital whiteboards, this morning sold 38.83 million shares for $17, raising about $660 million for the Calgary-based company. The deal came at the middle of the expected range.
For the March 31 fiscal year, the company had $648 million in revenue, up 38% from a year [...]
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FSI International (FSII), a provider of semiconductor manufacturing hardware, posted revenue for its fiscal third quarter ended May 29 of $28.7 million, above the Street at $28.1 million, and about in the middle of the company’s revised guidance range of $27 million to $29 million. Net income of $5.9 million [...]
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This is just some of what was said when a woman called 911 last week to report a drunken intruder in her home in the middle of the night. And guess who the hammered buffoon she was referring to is? None other than Andy Dick, ladies and gentlemen.
This may come as some surprise since the caller described him as looking like a “well-to-do, rich, white man.” If by rich, she means inebriated, then I guess it works. Oh Andy Dick, what would we do without you and your epic tales of drunken folly?
[Photo via AdamCarolla.com]
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The same way we deal with anyone who dispenses advice we don’t agree with, or breaks into our house in the middle of the night: “Take out a baseball bat on him.”
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