All Posts Tagged Financial Services

Financial services and the socialization of losses

January 15th, 2008 | No comments

First Martin Wolf said it: The world has witnessed well over 100 significant banking crises over the past three decades. The authorities have even had to rescue important parts of the US financial system – on most counts, the world’s most sophisticated – four times during the same period: from the developing country debt and [...]

HP saw no spending change from financial clients?

November 19th, 2007 | No comments

Read between the lines. From Reuters: “Hewlett-Packard Co saw no change in spending from financial-services customers in its fiscal fourth quarter, Chief Executive Mark Hurd said on Monday.” Mark Hurd deserves a lot of credit for jumping on a nasty situation with guns ablaze. Things are definitely getting better. But Mark also said: “We do [...]

Will Mortgage Collapse Hurt Web Ads? Looks That Way

August 30th, 2007 | No comments

I found this part more interesting: Two weeks ago, financial services advertisers made up the single largest sector on the web, accounting for 34% of all impressions… Watch the markets, and predict next quarter’s advertising take.

Financial services fraud: stepping stone to what?

October 17th, 2005 | No comments

Nevermind that I am an investor in a Refco futures fund (gulp…hmm…gulp). It is cash that investors in the company need to worry about, as shit has certainly hit the fan over there.