Archive for March 10th, 2009
Taking your questions during a Globe and Mail online conversation today
10 March 2009As a follow-up to last week’s ‘How to get their Money’ article featuring the Wellington Financial team released by the Globe and Mail’s Report on [Small] Business magazine, today there was a live online question and answer period with Mark McQueen, Wellington’s President & CEO. Mark takes questions from Globe readers across Canada on how to raise [...]
D&D Securities “The Morning Call”
10 March 2009This courtesy of D&D Securities Company
“Morning Call: Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Good morning. Stocks traded in a narrow band and were mainly down because of earnings fears for the banks and the gold price fell. It’s healthy to be having the debate about bank dividends in public but hardly instills confidence. The [...]
Globe and Mail online discussion today at 1pm EDT
10 March 2009In case you didn’t see the advertising on the Globe and Mail’s website, there will be an online discussion today at 1 pm featuring Mark McQueen as a follow-up to the Report on Small Business Magazine cover story last Thursday. The topic is How to raise money during a credit crunch.
If you have any [...]
Atlanta hosting this year’s Southeast Venture Conference
10 March 2009Mark Usher and I are in Atlanta, Georgia today for the annual Southeast Venture Conference. See what the tone is in the U.S. venture market. And 40 different tech and bio companies are presenting, which you can check out here. There are a range of conference sponsors as well, including Updata, Idea [...]
Is it time to nationalize Citibank?
10 March 2009Not that anyone has been listening to the small fry (see prior post “Put Citigroup out of its misery” June 26-08), and rightly so, but the recently released Global Finance Magzine rankings of the world’s safest banks is out, and the #1 choice says it all:
kfW in Germany took the honours, and they’ve been owned [...]