Share Buybacks Now Bought Out, American Enterprise in Decline by Contributor • May 22, 2016 • 33 Comments “The practice is even starting to reek of death to market bulls.”
OK I Get it, Corporate Earnings are a Fairy Tale and Reality is Crummy, But Do They Have to Push it This Far? by Wolf Richter • May 21, 2016 • 63 Comments Even the SEC woke up. But what will the media do?
How Wall-Street Hocus-Pocus Inflates S&P 500 Revenues by Wolf Richter • May 9, 2016 • 36 Comments But even the well-oiled machine couldn’t hide the decline.
This Also Happened the Last 2 Times before Stocks Crashed by Wolf Richter • Apr 18, 2016 • 23 Comments Financial Engineering Backfires.
Why the “Stubborn Persistence of Optimism” by Stock Analysts? by Wolf Richter • Mar 20, 2016 • 33 Comments “What do you think investors on Wall Street most underappreciate about Valeant?” – Morgan Stanley analyst to CFO on eve of implosion.
OK, I Get it, this Stock Market Is Going to Be a Mess by Wolf Richter • Mar 7, 2016 • 42 Comments With actual P/E Ratios Blowing Out Like this.
Schlumberger Loses $1 Billion, Raises Layoffs to 30,000, Doubles Share Buybacks to $20 Billion by Wolf Richter • Jan 21, 2016 • 31 Comments A good swig of financial engineering to make the results go down better.
Financially Engineered Stocks Drag Down S&P 500 by Wolf Richter • Nov 18, 2015 • 18 Comments Magic trick turns into toxic mix.
How Wall-Street Financial Engineering Vaporized Valeant by David Stockman • Nov 2, 2015 • 13 Comments In the US alone, another $15 trillion of bottled air is waiting to be released.
Wrath of Financial Engineering: It’s Now Eating into Earnings by Wolf Richter • Oct 15, 2015 • 25 Comments Balance sheet deterioration “increasingly alarming”: Goldman