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Banking & Finance
Bankrupt firm's creditors unlikely to rubber-stamp sale
May 18, 2009
Greg AndrewsNorwood Promotional Products Inc. suggests it's positioned to sail through bankruptcy, thanks to a pending-sales agreement.
But creditors, owed nearly $300 million, are expected to balk.
MoreAngel investment group off to flying start
May 11, 2009
Scott OlsonHALO Capital injects $8 million into startups in first year of operation despite recession and membership turnover.
MoreRecession has a domino effect on venture capital
May 11, 2009
Peter SchnitzlerCall it a trickle-down effect, but not the kind President Reagan would have liked. The recession has cost most institutional
investors, such as university endowments, about a quarter of their value. As a result, venture capitalists' primary source
of funding has dried up. The implications for Hoosier entrepreneurship are stark.
MoreREITs get boost, not scorn, for selling cheap shares
May 11, 2009
Greg AndrewsHere's more evidence we're in strange times: Indianapolis' real estate investment trusts have been issuing hundreds of millions
of dollars of stock at woefully low prices—and getting a pat on the back from their shareholders for doing so.
MoreLauth needs financing, real-estate recovery to emerge from bankruptcy
May 11, 2009
Cory SchoutenThe 32-year-old developer Lauth Group Inc. likely will survive in some form if the company can find financing to get it through
a Chapter 11 reorganization and if the real estate market doesn't take too long to turn around, experts said.
More'Epic' investment losses hit hospitals
May 11, 2009
J.K. WallFinancial reports trickling in from Indianapolis' major hospitals show why the city's health care building boom ground to
a near halt this year. It ran into a wall of investment losses.
MoreData can be deceiving when the economy slows
May 4, 2009
Ken SkarbeckInvestors today are dealing with a variety of calculation problems when attempting to determine if stocks
are attractive values. Some of the more common ratios and statistical measures that investors regularly employ to value businesses
become skewed in an economic downturn.
MoreComplex bond schemes haunt Indy, other cities
April 20, 2009
Ken SkarbeckThe city is just beginning to digest the news that came out of left field regarding Indianapolis Water Co.'s bond transaction
gone wild.
MoreWhite River Capital negotiating new terms for its First Chicago Bancorp merger
April 20, 2009
Peter SchnitzlerIn a March 13 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, publicly traded White River revealed it's postponed its
merger with First Chicago Bancorp, and now is negotiating new terms.
MoreConseco's Prieur, others suffering steep losses on purchase of shares
April 13, 2009
J.K. WallConseco CEO Jim Prieur keeps putting his money where his mouth is, purchasing more than a half-million
shares of his company's stock over two years.
MoreBeyond being a great investor, Buffett writes wittily and well
April 13, 2009
Chris KatterjohnOne of the greatest investors of all time, Warren Buffett is always refreshingly candid and informative in his letters to
investors, and 2008's 21-page missive is no exception.
MoreTaxes, fees should be determined case-by-case
April 13, 2009
Morton MarcusIf an honest case for the general good cannot be made (as in the case of most education services, and, sports, entertainment
and tourist facilities), government revenue streams should not be used to support private enterprises.
MoreFocused, clear direction is needed to end recession
April 6, 2009
The solution to ending the current recession is not more trillion-dollar debt on future social health care, education and
energy ideas, nor any increase in taxes.
MoreForeclosure investors shift to buy-and-hold strategy
April 6, 2009
Sam StallInstead of buying and selling, investors with ready cash are buying houses at substantial markdowns, turning them into rental
properties and sitting tight until the market improves.
MoreShareholders must hold fiduciaries' feet to the fire
April 6, 2009
Ken SkarbeckThe economic downturn has provided shareholders an opportunity to press for change
on a variety of corporate governance issues.
MoreClawback provisions won't hurt biz attraction
March 30, 2009
Mike HicksHouse Bill 1338 introduces a change to many (but not all) of our state's tax incentives, adding what is known as a "clawback"
provision, offering a reasonable and fair adjustment to our current tax incentives.
MoreAuction-rate securities suit names Stifel's Cohen, others
March 30, 2009
IBJ StaffAmong defendants named in a Missouri lawsuit against investment firm Stifel Nicolaus and Co. is Stifel Managing Director Jeffrey
Cohen, who is based in the company's Indianapolis
office.
MoreAvoid temptation to delay property tax payments
March 30, 2009
Jean WojtowiczIf you are late in making property tax payments, begin to chip away at your bill by making weekly payments.
MoreDow tightens grip on prized Indianapolis unit
March 23, 2009
Greg AndrewsLocally based Dow AgroSciences, one of Indianapolis' top employers, may not be going on the sale block after all.
MoreFinancial crisis yields opportunity for local banks
March 23, 2009
A national study finds that many community banks continue to prosper.
MoreBanks fighting heists with shrewd precautions, technology
March 23, 2009
Peter SchnitzlerCrime is not random, according to public safety experts, and bank security strategies focus primarily on deterrence.
MoreBanking system's history should help ease fears
March 23, 2009
Ken SkarbeckSince people must have confidence in the financial system for it to function properly, it is incumbent upon our leaders to
take action and assure the people their money is safe.
MoreBonus outrage poor excuse for good public policy
March 23, 2009
Mike HicksThe wages paid by a company to its employees are a distinctly private matter.
MoreMedical, tech entrepreneurs launch matchmaking effort in life sciences
March 16, 2009
Chris O'MalleyThree entrepreneurs from the medical and software realms are herding angels to invest in upstart life sciences companies in
Indiana.
MoreDuke upends growth plan, focuses on paying debt
March 16, 2009
Greg AndrewsIn this horrendous environment, nothing is more important for a debt-laden public company than proving it can pay its bills
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Cats out of the bag. The object of the game is to get acquired. That means the company has no idea how to grow beyond a certain point. Email is a 1990s technology. I have laughed at this company since day one. Such a small bit player. If it was anywhere but here, it wouldn't be newsworthy.
Esther, Indy has passed Chicago in the local government corruption arena. Don't downgrade us. We're No. 1 in the Midwest.
Does the buyer get to keep the recent Accu-Chek J.D. Power award? Be careful, those Swiss cannot be trusted. Last June they pimped Mayor Ballard and former Governor Daniels at a media op, announcing plans to invest "$300 million at its Indianapolis headquarters, creating up to 100 new jobs by 2017," only to turn around and close the Roche Nutley, NJ facility and eliminate 1000 jobs there later the same week. It seems that healthcare can be innovated only as long as money is to be made. Right now Roche seems to have big eyes for China: there are many Chinese in China and potential billions in Swiss francs! Since Roche is having difficulty with US insurance companies swallowing the bill for overpriced cancer drugs (with debatable efficacy) why not sell insurance to the Chinese and market the drugs to them there? There is a name for these sort of business practices however proper decorum precludes it use in this forum.
Same kind of Luddites who oppose I-69. Guessing their 501(c)(4) application probably sailed right through the IRS.