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Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - 9:39am
Legendary Bank Analyst Dick Bove Says This Will Be The 'Best Quarter in the History of the Banks'
Dick Bove dropped into Squawk Box Tuesday morning to speak with Andrew Ross Sorkin and company about financial sector earnings and the stock performance for the year to come. Here are some highlights: On the Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) Earnings All core businesses did pretty well quarter over...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 1:26pm
A Retort to Andrew Ross Sorkin on ETFsIn a late night post on New York Times Dealbook, Andrew Ross Sorkin, wrote a post talking about the "evilness" of ETFs. Sorkin interviewed Doug Kass, of Seabreeze Partners Management and other hedge fund managers about leveraged ETFs, and the supposed volatility they have caused in recent weeks...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - 12:38pm
Should Steve Jobs Give Away His Billions?More than 50 investors, entrepreneurs and corporate execs have signed the Giving Pledge. Steve Jobs isn't one of them. If you assumed that all billionaires were the same, you might be surprised to hear this. After all, the pledge was started by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Mark Zuckerberg, Steve...
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Andrew Ross Sorkin (Sorta) Defends Blankfein On Perjury Accusations
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 1:40pmAndrew Ross Sorkin wrote an interesting piece on the accusations that have been leveled against Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein that he perjured himself in congressional testimony regarding the investment bank's positioning in the mortgage market prior to the collapse. Blankfein told the...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 1:49pm
"Too Big To Fail" Is Bailout WorthyI watched "Too Big to Fail" last night, and I have to say that the HBO movie was much better than expected, and it gives a mostly accurate depiction of what happened during the 2008 financial crisis. The movie, taken from Andrew Ross Sorkin's best-seller, was able to depict the major players...
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Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 10:45am
Frank Quattrone: Back In The Game, Out Of The Spotlight (DELL, HPQ, TXN, NSM)From Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) and Hewlett-Packard's (NYSE: HPQ) battle for 3Par to Texas Instruments' (NYSE: TXN) $6.5 billion acquisition of National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: NSM), Frank Quattrone has been an influential figure. As the leading investment banker in Silicon Valley, Quattrone has...
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Is Business Insider Next To Be Bought Out?
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - 3:05pmCNBC just reported that Business Insider might be the next web company to get acquired, in light of yesterday's purchase of The Huffington Post by AOL (NYSE: AOL). Andrew Ross Sorkin asked for comment from Business Insider editor-in-chief Henry Blodget, but Blodget tweeted that Business Insider...
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Goldman Sachs Invests $500 Million in Facebook, Currently Valued At $50 Billion (GS)
Monday, January 3, 2011 - 2:54amDealbook is reporting that Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) has invested $450 million in the social network site Facebook at a valuation of $50 billion. The report cites unnamed sources familiar with the transaction, and says that Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, which has already plowed...
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Giving Credit To GM's Turnaround (GM)
Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 3:57pmDays before General Motors' (NYSE: GM) long-awaited IPO, the New York Times ran a piece by Andrew Ross Sorkin, in which Sorkin discussed who should receive the credit for GM's turnaround. In particular, he takes issue with Malcolm Gladwell's review of Steven L. Rattner's book about his tenure as...
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Andrew Ross Sorkin Sheds Light On Financial Crisis and Too Big To Fail
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 5:35pm
The Lehman Brothers collapse impacted not only its employees and investors, but it also had ramifications beyond what anyone could have contemplated. It began a domino effect in the market — an effect to which no one was immune. At the time of the Lehman failure, Andrew Ross Sorkin had already...
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