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Its hard for US investors to understand NG is so much higher in Europe.... if they get a hard Winter like the US had last Winter... it could be higher (unless that was in your estimate).
That was a nice press release today. Got me thinking what am I waiting for? Prospects for the company look positive, just a down time for the industry (glut).
Passport sold 200K phones already - Bloomberg TV ... on Bloomberg's Street Smart right now so check shows later to replay... showing phone and discussion.
The Three Myths of Digital Advertising
Published 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
Draper Fisher Jurvetson's Josh Stein and Bloomberg's Cory Johnson discuss Yahoo's investment in digital ads with Emily Chang on'' Bloomberg West.'' ...
So hyperscratcher is PRIVCO? http://www.wellgrounded.com/investment-opportunities/
50/50 on increase in production? Nobody will go for that, they paid for the lease and drill and have royalty to pay (maybe 50/50 if they do the cost of scratch before well is plugged or to reopen if still under lease)....
I assume its based on 4 things: lower oil and NG prices; 61 billion Russian judgment (which does anyone know what portion BP is obligated); 18 billion new add-ons to gulf blowout damages; 2 billion Mexico (that wasn't fair but we'll see if we get it back suit)
Counter short: Mideast conflict and hard Winter on NG again; manage to lower true amount on appeal like old Mexico; 60 minutes showed lawyers ads on even if its not related to the oil you can get damages for failing business claims thrown out but relooking at case again; what makes them think they can win this time in Mexico (the complaints against BP)
So whether memory is dead on the jest of it is there.
Why is anyone risking money on BP (it could be BK again, didn't that almost happen in the 80's? before merger of current BP?)? lol Something like a North Sea blowout bad weather (maybe even in the late 70's)....
But also that well in the gulf was GIANT they could always drill again and pay the bills....
Bloomberg Television just gave a report on Yahoo saying they were looking into spending their BABA cash in advertising... I'll see if I can find a link (saw on cable in hotel with Dish instead of Cable... miss my CNBC buds/lusts).
Facebook: Step 1, FB buy calls in YHOO (just ask T. Boone Pickens)
Step 2, FB buy stake in YHOO
Step 3, FB file form 4 (whatever) for intent to purchase YHOO
Step 4, Make offer to trade one share of FB for one of YHOO (regardless of price of either)
Step 5, buy puts in YHOO as price matches close to FB (careful of trump offers - not a sure hedge of blown deal)
Step 6, audit YHOO to complete buyout
Step 7, declare dividend of BABA cash they just got... (obviously ask them not to spend it)
Just an example of an easy moneymaker for Facebook and Yahoo shareholders.
There was chat yesterday on Facebook making a 50-55 offer for Yahoo on the Yahoo Finance message board for YHOO but that can't hold water... they'd be trumped faster than ... a bidding war would surely start. BABA is now an asset to a buyer of Yahoo for loan value... now a real valid offer would be a one for one trade of Facebook for Yahoo regardless of price. That would fly ... but I think a hostile offer would come over-it and a white knight still needed (most likely). Someone just has to start it, and Facebook one share of FB for one of YHOO regardless of price is a good start (cashless).
Problem with this letter is now the Yahoo board is responsible for bringing close to that value or more to shareholders or they'll be sued and lose.
September 26, 2014
Marissa A. Mayer, President and CEO
Yahoo! Inc.
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, California
94089
cc: Board of Directors
Dear Marissa,
Starboard Value LP, together with its affiliates ("Starboard"), is currently a significant shareholder of Yahoo! Inc. ("Yahoo" or the "Company").
By way of background, Starboard Value LP is an investment management firm that seeks to invest in undervalued and underperforming public companies. Our approach to such investments is to actively engage and work closely with management teams and boards of directors in a constructive manner to identify and execute on opportunities to unlock value for the benefit of all shareholders. Our principals and investment team have extensive experience and a successful track record of enhancing value at portfolio companies through a combination of strategic refocusing, improved operational execution, and more efficient capital allocation.
The purpose of this letter is to highlight several opportunities to unlock tremendous value for the benefit of all Yahoo shareholders. These opportunities include:
Unlocking the substantial value from Yahoo's non-core minority equity stakes in Alibaba Group Holding Limited ("Alibaba") and Yahoo Japan in a structure that delivers value directly to Yahoo shareholders in a tax-efficient manner;
Realizing substantial cost efficiencies by reducing expenses throughout the Company, specifically with a goal of reducing losses in the Display business by between $250 and $500 million;
Halting Yahoo's aggressive acquisition strategy which has resulted in $1.3 billion of capital spent since Q2 2012 while consolidated revenues have remained stagnant and EBITDA has materially decreased; and
Exploring a strategic combination with AOL, Inc. – a company we know well – which could improve Yahoo's competitive position, deliver cost synergies of up to $1 billion, and potentially facilitate the realization of value from Yahoo's non-core equity stakes with minimal tax leakage.
We believe that the execution of these initiatives would produce tremendous value for shareholders, and are squarely within the control of the Company's management and board of directors (the "Board"). We look forward to engaging directly with you to discuss the details of how these actions can be implemented in a timely manner.... http://finance.yahoo.com/news/starboard-delivers-letter-ceo-board-160700399.html
Unless you check by phone or in person I'm pretty sure the web page could be not correct.
I can do searches on XYZ company and find different year's web pages expired via Google off their site Neveda Sec. of State. And when I check on XYZ company they are still listed expired even though info was sent to them... so I think it could be web page problems and access to current info on XYZ company (but UBRG too?).
Maybe its the $1.00 par value....
This Schedule 13D relates to Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share (the “Common Stock”) of RadioShack Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer” or the “Company”). The address of the principal executive offices of the Issuer is Mail Stop CF3-201, 300 RadioShack Circle, Fort Worth, Texas 76102.
Yes Russell MircoCap ... some funds may have a no under a dollar rule and had to cashout.... MMMMM Mmmmm Good for buying another position if we're pat here....
Bingo! They sold at opening what they bought at towards end of day yesterday... You'd think that'd be illegal price manipulation....
Actually worse than that 20k/week that's just the firm's fee for John Little and firm... the rate for anyone else from firm is per person depending on who from 100+/hr to 700-/hr as many as needed for whatever task...
Wonder if funds have to leave while under a dollar those forcing selloff?
San Antonio Express News is the best source of lease deals for Eagle Ford (they did original coverage of Hess deal for example)... Tony Jr. ran for Governor and III is running most things now... Way back in 70-80 Tony Jr. got investigated for his Tesoro Savings and Loan (maybe got started on major gas finds SE of Laredo)... Can't say but someone is selling as big buy at start today and then sell almost the same several minutes later on bar volume chart. Could be just old fashion panic as Laredo likes to be cutoff from the real world and may not realize yet that oil may stabilize for a while again with ISIL...?
I'm out of touch at the Top of Texas so may go visit to see what's happening but I've not ever heard of an Eagleford playing out. Most Austin Chalk didn't play out either, many turned the pumps off to work on something and formation collapsed on them and maybe related other wells the operator stopped being timely on payments (locked out)... I know of one by Dilley that was making 1,000/bbls a day and the noname company locked out for not paying and never restarted or drilled.... and Eagleford leased and never drilled and lease able that Hess had and Sanchez skipped because they were not working upper LaSalle and Hess ... and... and.. So only experience and SA Express News... There is a lot of oil still not tapped because they're after the 2K wells/day and maynot have the right frac formula going... But someone posted on GASFRAC that GASFRAC was starting to be used in Eagleford wells so it'll be interesting if it becomes the norm for great well production.... Sorry didn't help much but search SA Express News maybe even call reporter from Hess deal... I say probably just slow reaction time on SN.
Little, John beat Robinhood to the booty.... How are we supposed to take this? Solvent and can afford it or share dump to pay the bill?
Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
Effective as of September 22, 2014, John Little was appointed Strategic Alternatives Officer of Quicksilver Resources Inc. (“Quicksilver”) pursuant to an engagement agreement (the “Engagement Agreement”) between Quicksilver and Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP (“DTBA”), a financial advisory services firm. Mr. Little will report to the Board or a committee of the Board and, in collaboration with Quicksilver’s management team, he will assist Quicksilver in exploring, evaluating and implementing strategic and tactical initiatives, as more fully set forth in the Engagement Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference. As part of his duties, Mr. Little will assist Quicksilver in its recently begun process to market company assets, identify joint venture partners or otherwise engage in a strategic transaction.
Mr. Little, age 49, has served as a Principal of DTBA or its affiliates since 2004, during which time he has led numerous engagements in a variety of industries. Mr. Little will continue to be employed by DTBA and will not receive compensation directly from Quicksilver or participate in Quicksilver’s benefit plans. Quicksilver will compensate DTBA for Mr. Little’s services at a rate of $20,000 per week, will indemnify Mr. Little to the extent of the most favorable indemnities provided by Quicksilver to any of its directors and officers and will cause Mr. Little to be covered by Quicksilver’s directors and officers insurance. In addition to receiving fees for Mr. Little’s services, DTBA will be entitled to compensation at specified hourly rates for the services of any other of its personnel and to reimbursement of reasonable out-of-pocket expenses. The Engagement Agreement may be terminated by either party without cause.
Last bar volume 400k green (buy) at end of normal trading. Looks good for $YHOO (next to last bar volume)
For a long time several stocks I watch usually start the day off with a dump too. Someone has been trying hard to crash the market.
Good point... let's see if they start Friday off with a 400k dump trying to get their 39 call sold good (for example)
One Jersey IR for a company suggested the way to break the shorters with the new rules is to get everyone to buy the same about of shares for ten days straight and that, that will force them to cover. What do you think, will it work?
Motley Fool Canada has a 2 year positive outlook here which is opposite of most....
By Andrew Walker - September 22, 2014
Teck Resources Ltd. (TSX: TCK.B)(NYSE: TCK) might be the most unloved stocks in the mining sector. As Canada’s largest diversified resource company, Teck is in the unenviable position of being one of the world’s largest miners for a couple of commodities that are currently oversupplied.
Teck produces metallurgical coal, copper, and zinc. Met coal and copper are battling low market prices and putting pressure on earnings. Zinc is seeing some strength.
With Teck’s stock price now hitting daily new lows for the year and not far off its low for the past five years, the market is avoiding the shares.
Here are five reasons why I think long-term investors should consider Teck Resources right now as a contrarian bet.
1. Cost reductions
Teck is doing a good job of streamlining its operations and finding areas to improve efficiency and cut costs. In its Q2 2014 earnings statement, it reported it is exceeding stringent cost reduction objectives. In the first half of 2014, it achieved operational cost savings of $150 million and capital reductions of another $150 million.
The ability to manage costs is critical at this point in time. When prices for met coal and copper begin to rebound, Teck should see significant increases in free cash flow.
2. Metallurgical coal turnaround
The met coal price is hovering near six-year lows. Teck said in its Q2 2014 report that it had reached agreements with quarterly contract customers for 5.5 million tonnes at US$120 per tonne. Analysts believe this price is unsustainable for the long term because most production is unprofitable at current levels.
Teck is a low-cost producer at many of its mining sites. Its coal mines are operating at less than capacity, and North American production has slowed significantly in the past two years. However, a continued slowdown in demand from China coupled with output increases from Australia are offsetting the North American cutbacks, resulting in increased pressure on the global met coal price.
Further supply cuts and a better demand environment should put a bottom under the market in 2015 and Teck could start to see a better pricing environment through the middle of 2016.
3. Fort Hills oil sands
Teck’s future cash flow bonanza and hidden gem is its significant oil sands stake through a 20% holding in the Fort Hills project, operated by Suncor Energy Inc. Teck is still committing significant capital toward the Fort Hills project, but the switch from heavy expenditure to production is expected to happen in 2018.
Free cash flow should get a double boost at this point from the reduced capital outlays and the new income stream from the sale of the crude production. Fort Hills is expected to produce 160,000 barrels per day by the end of 2018.
4. Profitable at low prices
Despite the low average realized prices for its core products, Teck is still profitable. In Q2 2014, the company reported gross profit margins of 3% for coal, 21% for zinc, and 25% for copper. The average realized coal price was US$111 per tonne, the copper price was US$3.08 per pound, and the zinc price was US$0.94 per pound.
5. Safe dividend
Teck pays a dividend of $0.90 per share that yields about 4%. The company also announced in the Q2 report that it plans to buy back up to 20 million shares over the next 12 month. This suggests the dividend is probably safe.
The bottom line
Teck has a strong balance sheet, is a low-cost producer, is managing costs well, and is capable of riding out the current tough times. I think the dividend is safe and investors willing to be paid 4% to wait for better times could see a significant increase in the share price once met coal and copper prices start to climb.
http://www.fool.ca/2014/09/22/5-reasons-to-place-a-contrarian-bet-on-teck-resources-ltd/
© 2014 The Motley Fool Canada, ULC. All rights reserved.
Go down to a local university's journalism major students and offer them cash to contact Mr. Forbes to ask him what he thinks about SPEX and its business model (whatever to get interview experience as a journalist will need and have to do forever in that industry - I'm sure you'll find someone).
Or better law school have them invite Anthony over to discuss/speech on the difficulties in monetizing patents (as so whether any deal could pay enough to cover cost for a distribution to occur)...
China made a deal with Russia for coal (I know because I was following MTL for a while until I gave up because of Ukraine problems and 9 billion in debt... but anyway China made a big deal with them for coal).... maybe no interest now in UBRG's coal.
Are you saying REVO patents are not valuable? (I think that's what they hedge on if I remember right).
But if they bought Radio Shack like I posted here a while back in the upper 60's and sold 1.20+ they about doubled their money and will be reporting a financial gain this quarter. PROFITS! Must consider that... no matter how remote it is ... if the info was correct on the other board I saw them say Ali said he was going to buy ....
Feds said rate change sooner than later... was the headline... effects everything today.... haven't read yet so can't say if it will continue (they look for excuses to drop the market all the time)... $YHOO is probably just being held back which makes it wonderful for whoever was buying (including Yahoo buybacks) still a steal by valuation (but actual trading varies).
Drexel Hamilton interview (Telecom, Media and Technology Conference) http://wsw.com/webcast/dham3/yhoo/ Ken Goldman (with investor relations dept. with him)
From: https://investor.yahoo.net/events.cfm
End of 2nd QTR 4.3 billion in cash (last 2.5 years reduced share count by 20% with 7 billion in repurchases) Great new additions to board (Charles Schwab... )
Display, Search (core) and Other business
UGC - users generated content.... (Sports own editors, Finance standard for starts on companies...) stops at 18:37'ish and does not complete on my system anyway
....
Citibank Global Technology Conference
http://www.veracast.com/webcasts/citigroup/technology2014/61111814082.cfm
outstanding shares -20% (2.5 years) 290 mil. total bought back (can't compute his bought back 1.3 billion share... err... 1/3 of of a billion shares 3:30-3:45)
1.3 in business purchases
450 million avg mobile users
*** 14:20... 4.3 billion at end of quarter and have bought back 3.8 billion with it *** (3.8 billion got below 1 billion outstanding if at avg of 38 would be the 100 million less maybe that he thinks 900 million outstanding even if just half of $BABA ipo windfall)
Is that how you describe share price increase?
Because of the increase it sure is pleasant looking at account value....
....BlackBerry Blend is launching today on the BlackBerry® Passport and the Porsche Design P’9983 from BlackBerry®, and will work across desktop operating systems, including Mac OS X 10.7 +, iPad tablets running iOS 7+, Windows 7+ and Android tablets running Android 4.4+. The downloadable version of BlackBerry Blend for Macs and PCs is available today at www.BlackBerry.com/Blend, on the Apple® App StoreSM for iPad tablets, or via the Google Play™ Store for Android tablets.
BlackBerry Blend comes free on BlackBerry Passport at launch. Additional enterprise features will be available through a subscription program. Details of the enterprise offering will be announced in the coming weeks....
My worry would be their ability to work around the patents now that they know they have to pay. Like the cloud VPN networking I pointed out (maybe Sunday here)... beats me what caused the selloff this week,
Lawyers are funny, they want to know but don't want to communicate to you... like a husband/wife lawyers/husband never say shit to wife/investors because lawyers are worried about malpractice suits if things go wrong .... so having a lawyer CEO has been a weird experience. The language in releases are to prevent us from suing them if it doesn't work out. But don't they know the wife always gets the kids, the house and most the income?
Is owning Treaty Energy shares now the best way to be part of the Hypersc(r)acher miracle?
I almost bought and still want to as it has to be on a buyout list... I pondered whether Yahoo ad SE is eyeing this. Trading seems to say so but haven't even checked volume on pre-value hunting time for $YHOO .
Yahoo CEO said months ago they were focusing in mobile ... this has to be a target.
MM is doing a great job. If there was anything worth buying right away they could've done so instead of some of the buybacks...
These new thinfilm screens have got to get bigger... perhaps a message center on cowboy hats saying "Hey, Chick! Would you please tell me the time on the display since I can't see it?"
BlackBerry.... Where's the big release of phone? It's Wednesday?
Someone is dumping... look at red in volume chart under price chart on any post today on right side under ad stuff....
Never seen so much red before.... usually blue and red or blue and green ... but mostly blue with some red and green seen...
Ouch this is probably creditors or something that had a hold on selling until a certain date and a MASS EXODUS.... whatever.. can't get me to sell ... lost over 10k in casino one weekend this can't be worse... lol
Still buying pressure with no news and no promoter... odd... .32 1/2
Are you guessing? Because Military Mobile hasn't been cancelled... Military picked Radio Shack because of its so many smaller city locations. The creditors have to sand firm on not closing them or they loose the contract.
If it true its true... so who will pick up the Mil.Mob. contract... probably a different more owned investment by the same creditors? Nuts.... so must be something off center here with logic of Military deal and then finance BS.
Crammer mentioned Peabody on lighting round and then paused and stopped what he was saying and went on with UNP and Northfork in response to someone asking about Alpha ANR... he must've known about this news release today yesterday...
Crammer mentioned Peabody on lighting round and then paused and stopped what he was saying and went on with UNP and Northfork in response to someone asking about Alpha ANR... he must've known about this news release today yesterday...
USA Today has article on VPN in Money section 3B... "Gartner's Ahlm believes eventually security will be folded into the offerings of communication service provider companies such as AT&T and Comcast."
Writes about how VPN allow one to setup up a network on the fly and VPN being secure way to access work from laptop. lol you'll never see that Reader's Digest version in article.
by Mena Callahan / September 22, 2014
Molycorp Inc (NYSE:MCP) rose 12.21% after Howard Marks’ investment firm Oaktree Capital has filed a 13G with the SEC regarding shares of Molycorp (MCP). Oaktree now owns 9.1% of the company with over 24.47 million shares.
The stock saw temporary pressure during the trade after an amended 13D Filing from Pegasus Partners disclosed that from August 19 to August 21, it sold 3.39M shares of Molycorp at average weighted sales prices for each day ranging from $1.85 to $2.07.
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Once Sanchez (PP) LP is approved by unitholders we should start heading for double digits in a couple of years since it takes a while to drill/complete/produce wells from leases granted to CEP or might they transfer already produced leases that continue production... mmm, maybe some but they'll need all the help they can get to drill on leases they resigned from those acreage purchases, so they should get virgin eagleford leases...
The whole industry is taking a hit, which like in Charles Schwab's book says, no matter how good your stock is it typically cannot go against sector moves. Oil and Gas stocks will return to favor again (always have eventually).
Risks could be like is with airstrikes now begun against ISIL oil could go up... but an overall market crash like Monday could keep sector move from returning... for example.