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  • Lehman says thanks for sticking around

    Posted Jul 03 2008, 10:23 AM by Matt Koppenheffer
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    In an unusual move, Lehman Brothers decided to try and engender some employee goodwill by handing out a mid-year bonus. Unfortunately, it was in stock. Worse still, it was in Lehman stock.

    Now before you go and assume that this is a bad idea because Lehman stock has been so badly beaten up, let's be clear -- this is bad for a whole lot of reasons. And instead of getting hung up on minutiae like whether it's really an incentive when you're handing out shares of a plummeting stock, think about what this says about the bigger picture at Lehman.   Read More...

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  • Will Lehman crash and burn?

    Posted Jun 05 2008, 02:50 PM by Matt Koppenheffer
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    Are we going to get an encore showing of "The Amazing Disappearing Investment Bank?" Now that Bear Stearns is no more, the banking bears and short sellers have turned their attention to fellow investment bank Lehman Brothers.

    With the massive leverage ratios that the investment banks have propped themselves on, creditor confidence has become a prized asset -- maybe the prized asset. There was plenty that was going haywire over at Bear, but it ended up being a complete and rapid drying up   Read More...

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  • As the Lehman turns

    Posted Dec 14 2007, 03:23 PM by Matt Koppenheffer
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    Lehman Brothers reported its fourth quarter and full year earnings yesterday. Interestingly, the earnings -- which were pretty darn good considering what's been going on -- didn't get or create nearly the hullabaloo that the massive, stomach churning losses at other Wall Street firms stirred up.

    Well allow me to take a moment: nice quarter fellas.

    The problem is -- nobody's interested right now in believing that a Wall Street firm is doing something right. It's not hard to blame them -- finance firms seem to be hitting a wall all at once and the result has been the evaporation of tens of billions of dollars of shareholder value.   Read More...
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