GLG News in Accounting & Financial Analysis

NII Holding’s (NasdaqGS:NIHD) recent warning of decreased suscriber growth in 2008 may indicate that the company’s future prospects in Mexico are complex.  In addition, other factors may impair the firm’s average revenue per user (ARPU) and increase the churn rate.

The  decision  of  the  Fed  to  dramatically  reduce  interest rates, guarantee the  assets  of  Bear  Stearns  and  help  JP Morgan  in  the  takeover  of  Bear  are  all  indicative  of  the  fact  that  the  malaise  striking  the US  banking...

Provides a brief, non-technical critique of an academic paper developed to promote and legitimize long/short style asset management.  The article reviews attempts to replicate successful Hedge Fund strategies and resistance to the exorbitant fees typically charged, part payable regardless of actual investment performance The article is correctly skeptical of the paper's approach to measuring...

Sandwiched between US financial powerhouses and Middle Eastern SWF's, the EU is threatening additional financial regulation unless greater transparency is achieved.  Greater attention is being paid as the US subprime lending crisis effects many European investors(institutions and municipalities) unaware of the risks they were assuming through their investments. Aware that self-regulation is...

Though neither party warms to the arrangement, Middle East oil exporters and the US are intertwined in a relationship which has grown in size and strength over the past several decades. Despite our protestations and endless goal setting, oil imports climbed as a share of consumption since the 'war' on energy of the 1970's.  It's simply cheaper to extract oil from the Arabian peninsula and...

US Fed chairman Bernanke said banks are facing crisis and plan to reduce rate again to put the economy of US on it normal track, but with US banks still facing credit squeeze and the war of Iraq still draw out billion of dollars, the confidence to economy in the country is devastating, this situation will last not until next president can turn down what the current president cannot

Middle East Middle Class (MEMC) is mostly 'expats' particularly in Dubai which constitutes nearly 70% (Seventy Percent). Adding number of beds to hospitals will NOT attract people from (emerging) middle class. Dental segments would increase "foot-falls" in Middle East Diagnostic centers. Medical Migration with medical fraternity has become a common issue which Dubai and other middle east countries...

There are risks associated with homebuilding assets and contingent obligations.  This article alerts the reader to areas of interest.

Homebuilding impairments and tax valuation reserves provide future accelerated income streams, when the recovery occurs.

This  analysis  is  being  written  in  response  to  a  comment by  a  reader to  my previous analysis  on  the  same  subject. Today we have a  problem  where  the  subprime situation is  getting worse. It  is  also becoming  a  matter  of  concern  for ...