Knight Capital (KCG) confirms (8-K) a group of investors have agreed to provide it financing to the tune of $400M 2% preferreds convertible into 267M shares (98.2M currently outstanding), meaning a conversion price of $1.50. Shares -38% premarket to $2.52. (earlier) [View news story]
Let's see if I got this right? A week ago the book value was $14 per share. The $440 million was worth about $4 as a haircut. That left $10 per share as for book, mostly long term investments. Now on a distress sale, $10 should be worth $5 right?
This morning management sells 70% of company for $1.50. Hum...
Yes I know that book value is not a good measure, but for a broker-dealer a lot of it is in clearing deposits. Oh well... happily I didn't buy that one last Thursday.
Taking advantage of a recovering office property market, Blackstone (BX) is fixing to sell its portfolio of office buildings, reports the WSJ. The assets - with a value of as much as $22B - may also be packaged and listed as a REIT. A price of $20B would give Blackstone about an $8B profit on the properties. [View news story]
If true, this profit exceeds the market cap of the company. Of course, it's undoubtedly hocked. But still a nice hunk of change.
You Can't Hold These ETNs For The Long Term [View article]
In recent weeks, I bought some XIV. The reasoning was that the market was rising VXX should be falling. My trade (I'm now out) did great! But another factor was that VXX itself was in deep contango.
My logic(?) was if VXX is in contango then it should fall. And, if VXX falls, then XIV RISES.
Does this make any sense???? Thanks for any reply.
Knight Capital (KCG) confirms (8-K) a group of investors have agreed to provide it financing to the tune of $400M 2% preferreds convertible into 267M shares (98.2M currently outstanding), meaning a conversion price of $1.50. Shares -38% premarket to $2.52. (earlier) [View news story]
This morning management sells 70% of company for $1.50. Hum...
Yes I know that book value is not a good measure, but for a broker-dealer a lot of it is in clearing deposits. Oh well... happily I didn't buy that one last Thursday.
Taking advantage of a recovering office property market, Blackstone (BX) is fixing to sell its portfolio of office buildings, reports the WSJ. The assets - with a value of as much as $22B - may also be packaged and listed as a REIT. A price of $20B would give Blackstone about an $8B profit on the properties. [View news story]
You Can't Hold These ETNs For The Long Term [View article]
My logic(?) was if VXX is in contango then it should fall. And, if VXX falls, then XIV RISES.
Does this make any sense???? Thanks for any reply.