Motorola Mobility’s well-timed agreement…
We were going to write about something else this morning, but the big news that Google (GOOG) agreed to buy Motorola Mobility (MMI) in a $12.5 billion deal prompted us to change our plans. The WSJ live-blogged the conference call and there’s plenty of other breathless coverage pointing out that this is Google’s biggest deal...
Goldman: cutting, repoing, provisioning, losing
Goldman’s 10Q was released this morning and it adds some interesting detail to its mixed Q2 earnings.There were 15 days when it posted a trading loss in daily trading revenues,...
Morgan Stanley and that downgrade
Morgan Stanley’s 10-Q statement – that’s a quarterly report for European readers – is getting plenty of attention on Monday.Or rather, the section on...
Rolls Royce health-care at Northrop Grumman…
Back during the great health-care legislation debate of 2009-2010, we heard a lot about “Cadillac health-care plans,” and we’ve even seen a few here on footnoted (at Goldman Sachs and elsewhere). But last week, defense contractor Northrop Grumman (NOC) disclosed what looks to us like a Rolls Royce health-care plan — and true to the...
