Should there be a cap on oil spill payouts? A group of accounting professors essentially says yes and is backing BP's fight to cap the U.S. oil spill compensation payouts it must fund, which threatens to add billions of dollars to its bill for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. "Identifying revenues and expenses requires more than a mere consideration of cash receipts and disbursements," the profs say. [View news story]
To everyone calling for a cap... ok what should the cap be?
Should there be a cap on oil spill payouts? A group of accounting professors essentially says yes and is backing BP's fight to cap the U.S. oil spill compensation payouts it must fund, which threatens to add billions of dollars to its bill for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. "Identifying revenues and expenses requires more than a mere consideration of cash receipts and disbursements," the profs say. [View news story]
There should not be a cap because what if the legitimate claims go over the cap? Stop the fraudulent claims? Absolutely.
Realty Income Is Simply A Great REIT And Nowhere Close To A Bubble [View article]
Those are excellent points David. And I don't want to come across as questioning what people are doing with their portfolio as much as what they are telling other people are the reasons for Financial decision A vs decision B.
Realty Income Is Simply A Great REIT And Nowhere Close To A Bubble [View article]
Some of the current REIT bubble discussion with some of the dividend investors has been a bit contradictory. They say they never care about price as far as selling for a capital gain . 1000% return? Nope never ever ever sell if the dividend is covered and growing... ok well isnt that Realty Income Corp?
Will Higher Natural Gas Prices Boost Enerplus Corp.? [View article]
You're serious aren't you Michael? The entire point of the futures market is to hedge costs and prices. Companies hedge to protect against moves that nobody sees coming. Along your reasoning, why would any company bother hedging at all.
So if they were right in not hedging before you must think they are wrong for doing it now? You cannot have it both ways.
Will Higher Natural Gas Prices Boost Enerplus Corp.? [View article]
I don't know about it being badly misunderstood. Its a company not making a profit. Its pretty clear and simple. The case can be made that they have a lot of asset value of the energy from their land but unless they can make a profit out of that then it doesn't matter.
If management was so strong they wouldn't have had problems of not having the money to cover capex and the dividend. Not to mention not having their nat gas hedged. That is fixed now but it shouldn't been an issue in the first place if management was strong.
Things are getting better for them no doubt but they aren't out of the woods yet.
Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings tells the Financial Post that he thinks traditional fixed TV services will die out as a "bunch of different apps" compete for the time and money of consumers. The exec also said during the expansive interview that he doesn't see Netflix raising its $8 monthly fee despite rising content costs. [View news story]
"CEO Reed Hastings tells the Financial Post that he thinks traditional fixed TV ****------>SERVICES <------ ****
10 Matchless Energy Dogs Explore 21.35% To 47.1% Gains In April [View article]
I wasn't correcting YChart I was correcting you, as I quoted your text from your article. The pictures and charts taken from them is fine and I can understand that part. But the parts in your article that are yours is wrong.
So if you know they aren't a driller, yet still call them a driller then you are lying to your readers.
10 Matchless Energy Dogs Explore 21.35% To 47.1% Gains In April [View article]
Its getting frustrating seeing you time and gain misclassify land trusts.
"Whiting USA Trust I (WHX), a driller whose leases expire in 2015 was again tops"
WHX is not a driller. Their leases do not expire in 2015, the entire trust expires in 2015.
"Whiting USA Trust II (WHZ), one of six exploration and production (e&p) firms " WHZ is a land trust. they are not a E&P firm. They have nothing to do with E&P.
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Seriously Arie? That was one jump. You cannot enjoy that growth today. Is there something that makes you think they will give more then $0.01 raise next year?
"There is no excuse at this point for not investing in Seagate, in my mind"
You are right... other then people have different strategies, different goals, different time horizons. I'll disagree with the other commentor sentiment of thanks for the article. This was nothing more then useless chest pounding.
Should there be a cap on oil spill payouts? A group of accounting professors essentially says yes and is backing BP's fight to cap the U.S. oil spill compensation payouts it must fund, which threatens to add billions of dollars to its bill for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. "Identifying revenues and expenses requires more than a mere consideration of cash receipts and disbursements," the profs say. [View news story]
ok what should the cap be?
Should there be a cap on oil spill payouts? A group of accounting professors essentially says yes and is backing BP's fight to cap the U.S. oil spill compensation payouts it must fund, which threatens to add billions of dollars to its bill for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. "Identifying revenues and expenses requires more than a mere consideration of cash receipts and disbursements," the profs say. [View news story]
Stop the fraudulent claims? Absolutely.
Realty Income Is Simply A Great REIT And Nowhere Close To A Bubble [View article]
Realty Income Is Simply A Great REIT And Nowhere Close To A Bubble [View article]
They say they never care about price as far as selling for a capital gain . 1000% return? Nope never ever ever sell if the dividend is covered and growing... ok well isnt that Realty Income Corp?
Will Higher Natural Gas Prices Boost Enerplus Corp.? [View article]
What exactly did they navigate? They sat there and took the losses unhedged.
Will Higher Natural Gas Prices Boost Enerplus Corp.? [View article]
The entire point of the futures market is to hedge costs and prices.
Companies hedge to protect against moves that nobody sees coming.
Along your reasoning, why would any company bother hedging at all.
So if they were right in not hedging before you must think they are wrong for doing it now? You cannot have it both ways.
Will Higher Natural Gas Prices Boost Enerplus Corp.? [View article]
If management was so strong they wouldn't have had problems of not having the money to cover capex and the dividend.
Not to mention not having their nat gas hedged. That is fixed now but it shouldn't been an issue in the first place if management was strong.
Things are getting better for them no doubt but they aren't out of the woods yet.
Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings tells the Financial Post that he thinks traditional fixed TV services will die out as a "bunch of different apps" compete for the time and money of consumers. The exec also said during the expansive interview that he doesn't see Netflix raising its $8 monthly fee despite rising content costs. [View news story]
10 Matchless Energy Dogs Explore 21.35% To 47.1% Gains In April [View article]
So if you know they aren't a driller, yet still call them a driller then you are lying to your readers.
10 Matchless Energy Dogs Explore 21.35% To 47.1% Gains In April [View article]
"Whiting USA Trust I (WHX), a driller whose leases expire in 2015 was again tops"
WHX is not a driller. Their leases do not expire in 2015, the entire trust expires in 2015.
"Whiting USA Trust II (WHZ), one of six exploration and production (e&p) firms "
WHZ is a land trust. they are not a E&P firm. They have nothing to do with E&P.
Building A High-Yielding Small Portfolio That Can Outperform The Market By A Big Margin [View article]
Building A High-Yielding Small Portfolio That Can Outperform The Market By A Big Margin [View article]
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You are right... other then people have different strategies, different goals, different time horizons.
I'll disagree with the other commentor sentiment of thanks for the article. This was nothing more then useless chest pounding.
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