https://www.businessinsider.com/finance-summer-internships-outlook-amid-coronavirus-training-the-street-ceo-2020-4 by Rebecca Ungarino Wall Street firms are delaying their internship programs, but they’re not scrapping them entirely, according to Scott Rostan, the chief executive and founder of Training The Street. “The general consensus you’re getting right now is that they’re delaying the start of the intern program by four or five weeks,” and planning […]
Marks and Spencer – When they announced that sales had risen in the quarter but they had, in fact, fallen; mistake due to… an Excel summing error. JPMorgan Chase – When they had $6.2bn in trading losses in 2012 (the “London Whale” incident) due to… an Excel error. Fidelity’s Magellan fund team – When they miscalculated […]
https://money.usnews.com/investing/stock-market-news/articles/2020-04-03/how-coronavirus-affects-upcoming-ipos-in-2020 By Matt Whittaker, Contributor April 3, 2020, at 4:29 p.m. THERE’S A PARTICULAR artfulness required for companies that want to raise money by selling shares in an initial public offering. A company must judge whether there is an appetite for it based on its business model, past performance and growth prospects. It also has to gauge […]
Last week, Kraft Heinz bonds were downgraded to junk status, making it one of the largest “fallen angels” to enter the junk-bond market since 2005! Here are some key points… What is a “fallen angel”? A company that gets downgraded and loses its investment grade rating. What is the impact of the downgrade? Bonds tumbled […]
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-09/public-market-rituals-spell-pain-for-uber-and-beyond-meat-stocks By Drew Singer and Esha Dey November 9, 2019, 7:00 AM EST For newly a public company, two rites of passage loom: its first few earnings reports, and the expiration of its IPO lockup. Twice this month, those events conspired to unleash double-doses of pain for investors. Uber Technologies Inc. plunged 13% over two […]
The prospect of the biggest leveraged buyout in history comes at a precarious time for debt bankers as investors grow increasingly picky in who they’ll lend to and as warnings intensify that corporate borrowing has gotten out of hand. And then there’s the not-so-distant memory of the last time a big pharmacy chain raised a […]
By Marielle Segarra The sportswear company Under Armour on Monday confirmed federal officials have been looking into its accounting practices for more than two years. Under Armour says it hasn’t done anything wrong. The Wall Street Journal, which broke the news, said the probe includes both criminal and civil investigations and that authorities are focusing on […]
By Erik Sherman We Company, parent of shared office space provider WeWork, has an image problem that has become trickier since it filed paperwork for an IPO. And its recent efforts to control the conversation may not be working. We wants to be a tech company and get the large-multiple-of-revenue valuations such businesses get. Its last private investment […]
Things are looking up in the eyes of MBA Graduates. According to a recent survey from Training The Street, nearly 75 percent of MBA grads are more optimistic about finding a job this year. But 56 percent said their ability to pay off student loans could influence the type of job they actually accept. We […]
http://fortune.com/2019/06/07/facebook-break-up-big-tech/?utm_source=fortune.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=data-sheet&utm_content=2019061013pm By Erik Sherman June 7, 2019 “Break up Big Tech,” has become a rallying cry of consumer advocates and prominent politicians. But what, in practice, would that actually look like? Fortune spoke with experts in various areas of law and business to see how that might play out with Facebook, which has become a […]