Comments on: Chanos to financial media: quit making stuff up http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/06/17/chanos-to-financial-media-quit-making-stuff-up/ Behind the deals and deal-makers Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:11:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: footnoted.org » Blog Archive » The SEC wants to put an end to false rumors… http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/06/17/chanos-to-financial-media-quit-making-stuff-up/#comment-337101 footnoted.org » Blog Archive » The SEC wants to put an end to false rumors… Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:57:58 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/06/17/chanos-to-financial-media-quit-making-stuff-up/#comment-337101 [...] Now don’t get me wrong. False rumors are bad, as I footnoted here two weeks ago. That’s true whether they impact small stocks like Microvision (MVIS) or large companies like Bear Stearns or Lehman Bros. (LEH). But, as Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote and blogged last week, stopping them seems to be easier said than done. Instead, it seems much easier to blame the short-sellers for the rumors, as Vanity Fair did here, even though it’s clearly not always the shorts who are responsible. [...] [...] Now don’t get me wrong. False rumors are bad, as I footnoted here two weeks ago. That’s true whether they impact small stocks like Microvision (MVIS) or large companies like Bear Stearns or Lehman Bros. (LEH). But, as Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote and blogged last week, stopping them seems to be easier said than done. Instead, it seems much easier to blame the short-sellers for the rumors, as Vanity Fair did here, even though it’s clearly not always the shorts who are responsible. [...]

]]> By: Deal Journal - WSJ.com : Afternoon Reading: Morgan Stanley and the Credit Crunch http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/06/17/chanos-to-financial-media-quit-making-stuff-up/#comment-335408 Deal Journal - WSJ.com : Afternoon Reading: Morgan Stanley and the Credit Crunch Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:09:29 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/06/17/chanos-to-financial-media-quit-making-stuff-up/#comment-335408 [...] Lehman, and that may mean he is ousted from his perch atop the Wall Street firm…Jim Chanos comments about the financial media stirred some feedback. Here’s Felix Salmon’s take and [...] [...] Lehman, and that may mean he is ousted from his perch atop the Wall Street firm…Jim Chanos comments about the financial media stirred some feedback. Here’s Felix Salmon’s take and [...]

]]> By: Jack http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/06/17/chanos-to-financial-media-quit-making-stuff-up/#comment-335398 Jack Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:28:30 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/06/17/chanos-to-financial-media-quit-making-stuff-up/#comment-335398 Dear Mr. Hamilton... Can you please tell me the relationship (if any) between and among "hedge funds", "short-sellers" and speculators who buy oil on margin? Also, is buying oil on margin synonymous with trading in derivatives? Thanks. Jack Dear Mr. Hamilton…

Can you please tell me the relationship (if any) between and among “hedge funds”, “short-sellers” and speculators who buy oil on margin? Also, is buying oil on margin synonymous with trading in derivatives?

Thanks.

Jack

]]> By: Afternoon Reading: Goldman Outdoes Its Rivals Again http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/06/17/chanos-to-financial-media-quit-making-stuff-up/#comment-335370 Afternoon Reading: Goldman Outdoes Its Rivals Again Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:52:03 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/06/17/chanos-to-financial-media-quit-making-stuff-up/#comment-335370 [...] Meanhwhile, Jim Chanos is taking aim at the financial media and its coverage of Lehman, Reuters’s DealZone reports. [...] [...] Meanhwhile, Jim Chanos is taking aim at the financial media and its coverage of Lehman, Reuters’s DealZone reports. [...]

]]> By: Deal Journal - WSJ.com : Afternoon Reading: Goldman Outdoes Its Rivals Again http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/06/17/chanos-to-financial-media-quit-making-stuff-up/#comment-335355 Deal Journal - WSJ.com : Afternoon Reading: Goldman Outdoes Its Rivals Again Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:50:24 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/06/17/chanos-to-financial-media-quit-making-stuff-up/#comment-335355 [...] Meanhwhile, Jim Chanos is taking aim at the financial media and its coverage of Lehman, Reuters’s DealZone reports. [...] [...] Meanhwhile, Jim Chanos is taking aim at the financial media and its coverage of Lehman, Reuters’s DealZone reports. [...]

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