Archive of entries posted on September 2013

Knowledge is Power: Future of Blackberry, Job Losses, Central Europe Edition

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Absolute Majority? Merkel Wins Easy Re-Election (Der Spiegel) Does BlackBerry have a future? (CBC) Finding cheap shares ready to move on up: How finance professor Josef Lakonishok turned his theory into a $70bn practice (This is Money) Containing costly job losses (OECD Observer) Hi-Fis and Low Gears: Manufacturing’s Bounce in the U.S. (IMF Direct Blog) The American Myth of …

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New ADS: Volaris, A Discount Airline From Mexico

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Mexico-based  ultra-low-cost airline Controladora Vuela Compañia de Aviación, S.A.B. or Volaris (VLRS) listed its American Depositary Shares (ADSs) on the NYSE on September 18, 2013.  The company priced the IPO at $12.00 per ADS for a total of about 26 million shares. Each ADS represents 10 ordinary shares. Here is a brief overview of Volaris: The company …

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Update: MTR Corporation, Hong Hong’s Metro Train Operator

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In January 2012, I wrote a short article on MTR Corporation, the leading railway operator in Hong Kong. Compared to the subway systems in places like London, New York and Washington DC, MTR seems to the best. The Tube in London is clean but expensive. The DC subway system is clean but stupidly complex with its …

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Knowledge is Power: California, Accidental Empire, Irish Recovery Edition

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Small investors will wait a year to join in Lloyds’ privatisation after Treasury announces £3.2bn sale of shares to the City (This is Money) The FTSE stocks you can depend on for dividend growth (Trustnet) Germany’s ‘accidental empire’ (Social Europe Journal) Euro crisis could return this fall (Deutsche Welle) Who’ll benefit from China? (The Asset) Irish recovery underway, …

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