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Dubai: what's ahead?
in Sox First, on November 29, 2009
...Dubai and investors are likely to lose their shirts. And Dubai will struggle to raise any more money.... ... the courts. Most of the foreign bondholders include big banks and hedge funds, including Citigroup and HSBC. Over the next few days, they are expected to appoint legal advisers to help their cause, ...
Seen that? - Big Sur Bonanza #2
in The Outdoor Weblog, on November 9, 2009
...ndicative of macking waves, and we were not going to be disappointed. Waves were coming [...] Read More BIG SUR BONANZA #3 at The Outdoor Weblog ... ...s next in the bail-out bonanza? at Sox First Now that Citigroup has been thrown a lifeline, people are asking who's next.Questions are being asked whe...
Seen that? - BIG SUR BONANZA #3
in The Outdoor Weblog, on October 31, 2009
... had gotten myself into. Putting my head down, I pressed my chest down hard on my board [...] Read More Big Sur Bonanza #2 at The Outdoor Weblog ... ...s next in the bail-out bonanza? at Sox First Now that Citigroup has been thrown a lifeline, people are asking who's next.Questions are being asked whe...
Pay cuts for auto firm executives. What about banks?
in Sox First, on October 23, 2009
... the banks and other financial services firms. The Economist reports that despite the fact that Citigroup and Bank of America lost billions of dollars in the last quarter, they still ended up payi...
The Goldman Sachs lie
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...dith Whitney had a hand in ending the bull market two years ago when she was the first to write off Citigroup. If you want to recap history, you can read about it here . The bottom line is this: US...
Seen that? - Amazon Offers Motorola Q for $99.99
in The Smart PDA, on October 2, 2009
... Turns out pricing isn't the big gambit. The two companies can basically offer the [...] Read More Leaked photos of upcoming Motorola devices at The Smart PDA ... ...been reported over the past couple of months. First there was the MCI case than the DOJ one and the Citigroup case, Now we have one more to add to the list, this time its Motorola. Two computers cont...
Banks bankrolling Congress
in Sox First, on August 27, 2009
...tion day and June. According to the report, the banks putting up the money included Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan Chase. The US Chamber of Comme...
Citigroup and Norwegian greed
in Sox First, on August 11, 2009
...pectus put out by Terra. These warnings were included in the original Citigroup prospectus. Furthermore, the municipalities betrayed the public by borrowing heavily to invest in these complicated sch... ...eports that Norwegian municipalities and a bankrupt securities broker, Terra Securities, are suing Citigroup for $200 million after losing all their money in investments in notes which they claim Cit...
Derivatives time bomb for big banks
in Sox First, on July 26, 2009
...G last year, are still threatening the US financial system. The Wall Street Journal reports that more than half the 100 companies surveyed reported so-called "risk-related contingent features&... ...he derivatives risk is concentrated in five banks: JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley. In other words, the top financial institutions in the US still have ...
Bankers' pay soars despite crisis
in Sox First, on June 22, 2009
...ses despite the global financial crisis. The Financial Times reports that Merrill Lynch, UBS and Citigroup are actually cranking up pay for investment bankers to stop them leaving. Market rates for...
Bankroll blues
in Sox First, on May 7, 2009
... $11 million in campaign donations and lobbying in Washington between 1999 and 2008. You can see a more graphic layout of the way the donations in this FT report here . Read it and weep. Given that... ... money. Investment banks owning and financing subprime lenders included Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan and Citigroup which all received taxpayer money. Connected with this is the second report, published h...
Testing stress tests
in Sox First, on May 5, 2009
...ese tests are weak. They have set the hurdle far too low and the prospect of any bank failing it is more indicative of the weakness of that bank. As risk scholar Nassim Nicholas Taleb says, the st... ...tests will have to boost their capital and that list might include Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Citigroup. The fundamental question is not just whether those banks are solvent. It's whether th...
Amazon Kindle 2 三月赚一亿
in Wangtam, on 2009-04-30
据市场研究公司 iSuppli 发表的设备分解分析报告称， Amazon 今年 2 月末开始销售的 Kindle 2 电子图书阅读器的零售价是生产成本的两倍。该产品的零售价是 359 美元，生产成本只有 185.49 美元。
截止到 4 月 16 日， Kindle 2 电子图书阅读器已经销售了将近 30 万台。这表明 Amazon 今年已经从这种产品的销售中获得了 1 亿多美元。
这篇报告称 ， Kindle 2 电子图书阅读器的全部元件成本是 176.83 美元。但是，在把这些元件组装起来的时候，包括电池和生产成本，这个价格将增加 8.66 美元。这个总成本不包括知识产权的成本...
More Wall Street greed
in Sox First, on April 27, 2009
...block who delivers restaurant supplies for Sysco out of a huge, shiny truck?" e-mails an irate Citigroup executive to a colleague. "I'm not giving to charity this year!" one hedge-...
Another step to nationalization?
in Sox First, on February 24, 2009
...ints out, the US government has already taken a chunk of equity in banks including Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo. But it's non-voting, which means it's not actually nationalizatio...
Citigroup - first National Bank?
in Sox First, on February 24, 2009
...est would assess whether they would have enough capital necessary to continue lending and to absorb more losses. So what to make of this? It's not clear whether this has been leaked to the WSJ as... ...
Last week's speculation that Citigroup and Bank of America would be nationalized really hammered the market , prompting White press secretary Robert Gibbs to come out and say the administrati...
Madoff and the conspiracy of silence
in Sox First, on February 17, 2009
...uot;Leon Gross, the former managing director in charge of worldwide equity derivatives research for Citigroup, told friends and colleagues on Wall Street in 2005 that he thought Madoff was being less ...
Citigroup greed
in Sox First, on February 2, 2009
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Citigroup has been in all sorts of strife since receivign a taxpayer funded $45 billion cash injection to keep the wolves from the door. At the end of last month, the world's biggest bank had...
Wall Street to Obama: the banks are insolvent
in Sox First, on January 21, 2009
...g: US are in bad shape, perhaps insolvent. The banks led the tsunami with appalling performances by Citigroup, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Well Fargo. Dr Doom, economist Nour...
Oil price futures
in Sox First, on January 21, 2009
...reports: "Morgan Stanley hired an oil tanker to store crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico, joining Citigroup Inc. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc in trying to profit from the contango, two shipbrokers said...
More bailouts on the way
in Sox First, on January 3, 2009
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Citigroup was just the beginning. The US Treasury has announced that it will use more Citi-style rescue packages to help financial institutions in deep trouble. The nation's top number crun... ...
Citigroup was just the beginning. The US Treasury has announced that it will use more Citi-style rescue packages to help financial institutions in deep trouble. The nation's top number crun...
Corporate jets nosedive
in Sox First, on December 26, 2008
...llars still owning and operating fleets. But, as the report says, some are starting to scale back. Citigroup still has four jets and a helicopter but its executives are being encouraged to "roug...
Morgan Stanley's Asia PE Chief Gets Axed
in China Venture News, on December 20, 2008
...sia, Japan was excluded from his portfolio.
Morgan Stanley's action was mirrored last month at Citigroup. Their Asia head, also based in Hong Kong, was Christopher Laskowski. He relocated last mo...
Fixing broken boards
in Sox First, on December 8, 2008
...ncourage long-term involvement, shares could be only be bought and sold at a defined period. Furthermore, the highest paid employees, including directors, could not be paid remuneration greater than 1... ...
Last week, I did a blog entry condemning Robert Rubin's self serving claim that Citigroup's woes had absolutely nothing to do with its board directors. Not their fault at all, he said, e...
Rubin's self-serving "innocence"
in Sox First, on December 1, 2008
...is coming from someone who was instrumental to Citigroup's decisions three years ago to take on more risk to boost flagging profits. For his part, Rubin claims it's the bank's risk manage... ...
Of all the disgraceful moments following the implosion of Citigroup, this Wall Street Journal interview with Citigroup director and Bill Clinton's former Treasury honcho Robert Rubin probabl...
Who's next in the bail-out bonanza?
in Sox First, on November 28, 2008
...ing who's next. Questions are being asked whether Bank of America is next. And will there be more? Paul Miller, a Friedman Billings Ramsey banking analyst, has told Associated Press that more... ...
Now that Citigroup has been thrown a lifeline, people are asking who's next. Questions are being asked whether Bank of America is next. And will there be more? Paul Miller, a Friedman Billi...
Dreadful US data package
in Sox First, on November 27, 2008
...g average of initial claims rose to 518,000, the highest since January 1983. The idea that there is more than half a million out there looking for work is seriously scary. But there's worse ahead... ...ders for transportation goods fell 11.1%. Add to that the list of companies, headed by the likes of Citigroup, Genworth Financial, and New York Times, that are cutting their dividends . And sales of ...
Citi slickers
in Sox First, on November 25, 2008
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The Bush administration's bailout of Citigroup might be a sign of more to come, and that's a worry for everyone. Not just American taxpayers but right around the world. The most incompe... ...
The Bush administration's bailout of Citigroup might be a sign of more to come, and that's a worry for everyone. Not just American taxpayers but right around the world. The most incompe...
Great Time To Learn Golf. Not.
in Eagle Par Birdie, on November 22, 2008
...woods (Citigroup plans to lay off 50 thousand employees early next year; they've already dumped more than 25 thousand around the world).
And at least one car company in Detroit that likely won... ...riven economies like China and Japan that are imploding, banks that are still not out of the woods (Citigroup plans to lay off 50 thousand employees early next year; they've already dumped more th...
Going Broke Going For Broke
in Eagle Par Birdie, on November 22, 2008
...ns love because they're stable, rich and always pay dividends. We're talking companies like Citigroup, Xerox, General Electric, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Pfizer, Exxon-Mobil and others.
Only two o...
Will credit cards be the next shoe to drop?
in Sox First, on October 29, 2008
...ia that outfits like Bank of America and Citigroup are particularly vulnerable because they relied more heavily on money made from credit cards. True, the amount of exposure is considerably less than... ...tings agency analyst Laura Nishikawa has told the media that outfits like Bank of America and Citigroup are particularly vulnerable because they relied more heavily on money made from credit car...
World's top brands - investment banks take a hammering
in Sox First, on September 20, 2008
... list is the way the financial services sector has been hammered in the wake of the credit crunch. Citigroup has dropped from 11th to 19th, and Merrill Lynch from 22nd to 34th. in the press release...
TriAlpha Hedge Fund Launches
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 5, 2008
...eve stable, absolute returns with volatility similar to the Citigroup World Government Bond Index.
More at; Hedge Fund TriAlpha Explores Diversified Fund Launches ... ...trage and option arbitrage; aims to achieve stable, absolute returns with volatility similar to the Citigroup World Government Bond Index.
More at; Hedge Fund TriAlpha Explores Diversified Fund Laun...
Let my Captive Go!
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 19, 2008
... Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Juan Estey
It looks as if Citigroup may sell its captive Indian offshore unit to Tata Consultancy in the near future (see article ). As one of the pioneers in ca...
FASB delays the inevitable
in Sox First, on August 4, 2008
...s hurt the US economy and had investors losing their shirts. Think of the hundreds of billions that Citigroup has off its books. Think of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The FASB has decided to delay it ...
财富杂志公布 2008 全球 500 强
in Wangtam, on 2008-07-11
美国《财富》杂志 昨日公布 了 2008 年全球 500 强排行榜，沃尔玛以 3787.99 亿美元年销售额蝉联榜首，中石化排名第 16 位。
按照 2007 年销售额排名，排名前十的企业依次是：沃尔玛、美国埃克森美孚石油公司、英荷壳牌石油公司、英国石油公司、丰田汽车公司、美国雪佛龙石油公司、荷兰国际集团、法国道达尔石油公司、美国通用汽车公司和美国康菲石油公司。
中国内地和香港上榜企业从去年的 24 家增至 29 家，其中中石化以 1592.6 亿美元的年销售额排名第 16 位，成为排名最靠前的中国企业。
Lawsuits come in
in Sox First, on June 19, 2008
...lawsuits, particularly with market rumors proliferating about imminent liquidity problems in one or more large investment banks. Still, there is one thing that troubles me about this case. M&T wi... ... thousands of retail investors suing Deloitte & Touche and Grant Thornton and banks including Citigroup for tens of millions of euros in damages over the Parmalat collapse. Parmalat filed for ba...
Wall Street Researchers Lured to Hedge Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 18, 2008
...lysts to hedge funds, who are offering higher pay.
"Morgan Stanley's Douglas Terreson and Citigroup Inc.'s Doug Leggate left their positions, the banks said. Geoff Kieburtz, the No. 3 an...
Beware of "Surgery Today, Pay Later"
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 11, 2008
...ing the term. If patients miss a payment, they can also get stung by the retroactive rate.
Furthermore, medical-care providers are joining forces with the lenders because they get paid sooner and th... ...ur gall bladder out today and make no payments until 2009!
From the article:
Lenders like Citigroup, Chase, Capital One and General Electric's financial services unit, GE Money, are offe...
Banks play the accounting shell game
in Sox First, on May 20, 2008
..., where it will hit the bottom line, they are leaving it on their balance sheets. The list includes Citigroup, ING and Merrill Lynch. What that means is that we don't really know how much crap is...
The new hot job: Chief Risk Officer
in Sox First, on May 10, 2008
... that they have a Chief Risk Officer, not before time given the way they have blown money, and many more are expected to follow suit. More to the point, it's likely to spread to other sectors. F... ...aded investments and bad loans, the latest hot job is the Chief Risk Officer. Bank Of America , Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley have all announced that they have a C...
Carlyle Group, MBK Partners Look at Taiwan Bank
in China Venture News, on April 21, 2008
...reporting on the story.
Acording to the Reuters report, Sunny Bank is not publicly traded. It has more than 80 branches on the island and around US$9.9 billion in assets. Both PE funds are already a...
CVC Capital Closes 3rd Asia-Pacific Fund with $4.1 Billion
in China Venture News, on April 18, 2008
London-based buyout firm CVC Capital has a new $4.1 billion war chest to use in Asia. It's the largest private equity fund ever raised for the Asia-Pacific region, according to PE Hub .
The fund, CVC Capital Partners Asia Pacific III L.P., aims to invest in established companies in the most de...
West Palm Beach Hedge Fund Lawsuit
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 10, 2008
...nt of failing to disclose a change in risk, causing the west palm beach hedge fund to loose more than 40% of its value.
The hedge fund's law firm filed the suit in the U.S. District Court... ... © phault
Hedge fund Falcon Strategies Two B LLC, is suing a business unit of Citigroup, accusing the financial giant of failing to disclose a change in risk, causing the west palm beach ...
Safari 3.1 是快了，不过……
in Wangtam, on 2008-03-29
...s and brag about it to your friends!
- Scrapblog Adds More Photo-Editing Tools
- Tunesbag.com - Your Music Anywhere
- modu - make new connections
- Premier4509 Tweaks The Lamborghini Murcielag...
$ 1 Billion going to Hedge Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on March 11, 2008
... Citigroup (NYSE:C) Inc. will inject a total of $1 billion into six hedge funds that have fallen in value, according to a report in the New York Times.
The funds, which were sold to customers under...
Bayer will um Yasmin kämpfen
in Das Börsen Weblog, on 06.03.08
...ld bei uns zu kaufen. Auch die Börse hat sich schon einen Tag später wieder beruhigt. Die Citigroup empfiehlt die Aktie weiter zum Kauf. Sie hat nur das Kursziel von 65 auf 63 Euro gesenkt. Aber bis d...
India & FII's
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on February 19, 2008
...es Ltd.
Temasek Holdings, Investment Corporation of Dubai, Goldman Sachs, Macquarie, AIF Capital, Citigroup and India Equity Partners (IEP) have picked a combined stake of 10% in Bharti Infratel.
...
花旗集团将出售大约14亿美元的私人资本权益
in Wangtam, on 2008-02-09
... Private Equity HUB 消息，花旗集团 (Citigroup Inc.)将出售全部大约14亿美元的私人资本权益， 消息称 ，花旗正在认真谈判，计划出售 Nikko Cordial Corp. 直接投资的 10 亿美元私人资本权益及其在 CVC Equity Partners 拥有的传统权益。花旗于上周完成了斥资 140 亿美元收购总部位于东京的 Nikko Cordial ...
International coal supply disruptions create earnings for the U.S. coal industry
in Supplychainer, on February 1, 2008
... Citigroup forecast that the pattern of strong coal prices and weak corporate earnings will continue across the sector.
In an analysis published Tuesday, Citigroup mining analysts John H. Hill an...
The market talks to the Fed
in Sox First, on January 31, 2008
... and liquidity in certain sectors. According to S&P, the downgrades could extend bank losses to more than $265 billion and have a "ripple impact'' on the broader financial markets. T... ...e impact'' on the broader financial markets. This is worrying news for Merrill Lynch, UBS, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley who have all lost a fortune. It's looking very bleak.
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Company directors: the million dollar club
in Sox First, on January 24, 2008
...ut generally it's not excessive. But a handful of companies are paying their outside directors more than $1 million a year. The Corporate Board Member magazine list includes western union ... ...r cent since its November high of $75.21. Crocs shareholders might not be that impressed. And can Citigroup's Roberto Ramirez justify his $2.9 million when the group last week reported an over...
Sovereign Wealth
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 18, 2008
...ave gambled almost $69 billion on recapitalising the rich world's biggest investment banks (far more than usually goes the other way in an emerging-markets crisis). With as much as $2.9 trillion t... ...5th the governments of Singapore, Kuwait and South Korea provided much of a $21 billion lifeline to Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, two banks that have lost fortunes in America's credit crisis.
It ...
Vesuvius Hedge Fund Launch
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 14, 2008
...oss assets to trade S&P 500 futures contracts based on trends forecasted by Xybemomics.
With citigroup global markets as prime broker, the hedge fund has a 12 month lock up period, a 2% ma...
Sovereign wealth funds: threat or opportunity?
in Sox First, on January 10, 2008
...they see, it's going to be a growing issue. The sovereign wealth funds are estimated to control more than $2 trillion in assets, more than hedge funds. And a lot of is coming out of jurisdictions ... ...
Back in November I did a blog entry looking at how Citigroup had given itself into Junk bond status with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority's $7.5 billion bailout, giving it a near 5 p...
Beiersdorf muss sich besser eincremen
in Das Börsen Weblog, on 04.01.08
Sie gilt ab 1911 als Mutter aller modernen Cremes. Heute ist aus der Creme eine große Markenfamilie geworden. Und die Entwicklung ist sehr dynamisch : Seit Jahren ist Nivea die größte Körperpflegemarke der Welt. Doch Hinweise auf deren Umweltverträglichkeit suche ich auf www.nivea.de ver...
Weniger Lastwagen für Pharma-Transporte
in Das Börsen Weblog, on 03.01.08
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Die Analysten der Citigroup stufen die Dax-Aktie von Fresenius Medical Care mit Kaufen ein bestätigten das Kursziel von 41 Euro. Mir gefällt an dem Fresenius-Konzern folgender Hinweis:
Auf de...
Dogs of the Dow Don't Hunt
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on January 2, 2008
...there have been many investing formulas invented that are supposed to be market beaters. One of the more interesting is the "Dogs of the Dow". The Dogs of the Dow theory says that if you sta... ... GE -0.38%
DuPont DD -9.48%
JP Morgan Chase JPM -9.63%
Pfizer PFE -12.24%
General Motors GM -18.98%
Citigroup C -47.15%
You could make the case that Citigroup skewed the results, but of course any ti...
Infineon punktet mit sauberen Chips für Motorräder
in Das Börsen Weblog, on 02.01.08
...ist immer noch nicht in Sicht. Einer ist allerdings optimistisch: Paraag amin , Analyst der Citigroup . Er hat ein Kursziel von 14,60 Euro ausgegeben. Die Aktie biete eine Restrukturierungsstor...
Faced With Huge Losses at Home, Morgan Stanley Sells Stake to China Investment Corp
in China Venture News, on December 19, 2007
...s done, and it just goes to underscore the influence we can expect to see in 2008... I guess I lean more toward the "all's fair" side of that continuum. America's banking industry ha... ...Merrill Lynch got hit. So did UBS and Citigroup. Now Morgan Stanley has announced huge losses as a result of bad decisions in the subprime loan debacle. Morgan Stanley is writing down almost $10 bill...
Bootstrapping among top Forbes business concerns
in BootStrapMe, on December 11, 2007
...s one of the key questions for entrepreneurs according to this article at Forbes.com related in a more recent post from Terrence .
Forbes entrepreneurs editor Brett Nelson suggests:
If you can...
Linde reinigt und speichert die schädlichen Gase
in Das Börsen Weblog, on 10.12.07
"Als einer der weltweit größten Anbieter von Wasserstoff forschen wir beispielsweise daran, diesen zukunftsträchtigen energieträger als innovatives Speicher- und Transportmedium für regenerativ erzeugte Energie zu etablieren. Wir sorgen mit unserem Know-how dafür, dass Kohlendioxid ...
The 700 Mhz Wireless Auction Set for January 24, 2008; Google Joins the Fray
in The Smart PDA, on December 4, 2007
... billion in revenue, assuming each PC owner conducts an estimated 35 searches a month, according to Citigroup research. If they do just one search per month on the four billion mobile phones expected ...
Trouble ahead for Citigroup
in Sox First, on December 3, 2007
...nt for The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority's $7.5 billion bailout. And I warned it was a sign of more trouble ahead and that the world's biggest bank could be in for a bad fourth quarter. Now ... ...
A few days ago I did a blog entry saying Citigroup had given itself Junk bond status with it paying 11 per cent for The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority's $7.5 billion bailout. And I war...
Citigroup junk
in Sox First, on November 28, 2007
...n losses in Latin America and a collapse in US property prices. What this latest deal means is that more than 9 per cent of Citigroup will be owned by Middle East interests. But in the meantime for C... ...
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority's $7.5 billion bailout of Citigroup, for a near 5 per cent stake, has been portrayed as an expression of confidence in Citigroup, a real win-win which at le...
More funny money on Wall Street
in Sox First, on November 14, 2007
... Now, Bloomberg reports that Goldman Sachs is holding a bigger proportion of Level 3 assets than Citigroup and Merrill Lynch. Still, The Wall Street Journal reports that it doesn't seem to ha...
Wall Street to be hit by a Level Three Storm
in Sox First, on November 8, 2007
...ave level three assets that exceed their equity base. As Nouriel Roubini points out in his blog , Citigroup's level three to equity ratio is 105 per cent, at Goldman Sachs it's 185 per cent,...
Die australische Bank ANZ bekommt eins aufs Haupt
in Das Börsen Weblog, on 06.11.07
Von wegen grün und gut: Nachhaltiges Denken ist längst keine garantie für ordentliche ökonomische Ergebnisse. Das zeigt sich gerade bei der australischen Bank ANZ, die von den Schweizer Vermögensverwaltern SAM als Vorbildbank hingestellt wird. Doch gerade wurde sie - in Sachen Marktwert v...
Charles Prince resigns - the domino theory of market meltdowns
in Sox First, on November 5, 2007
... that left it with a $2.2 billion loss - the biggest quarterly deficit in its 93-year history. Now, Citigroup's Charles Prince has fallen on his sword with the world's biggest bank facing $8 ...
Patrizia baut einen Negativrekord nach dem anderen
in Das Börsen Weblog, on 04.11.07
"Vorsprung entsteht vor allem dadurch, dass man die Dinge anders angeht." Das ist Patrizia im wahren Sinne der Worte an der Börse bestens gelungen. Die Aktie ist eines der größten Negativbeispiele am deutschen Markt. Das Immobilien-Unternehmen, das in Deutschland beim börsengang ...
