Sitemap - 2011 - John Hempton's Newsletter

The forthcoming irrelevance of the Australian consumer electronics retailers

Sears Holdings liquidation sale

Future Joseph Jett traders get a Christmas card from Mario Draghi

Peculiar goings on at Blogger

Solar panel prices continue to fall

The extent of Chinese solar subsidies and their implications

The Sino Forest Independent Committee Report - Part 3.

Sometimes I am glad I host this blog at Google (Muddy Waters edition)

To be successful

Oversimplification and financial crime (Felix Salmon edition)

The Sino Forest Independent Committee Report - part 2

The Sino Forest Independent Committee Report part 1.

Buy Ben Bernanke a marijuana pipe and an Hawaiian shirt

Trina Solar updates guidance (part 2)

Trina updates guidance (part 1)

Andy Borowitz and the buy case for Bank of America

Weekend edition: Firing Rosa Parks for not giving up her seat on the bus

Shorting - early can be wrong: First Solar edition

Thinking about the Abacus sign

Huabao: derivative transactions and disclosure

Huabao and the Queen of Cashout

Bronte Capital enters strategic partnership with Diageo - maker of Guinness beer. Oh and a comment on Trina Solar

Going one up on Jeff Matthews with Chaoda Modern Agriculture

Anarchists for good government

Happenings in Little Italy: nurses and litigation risk

Elegant ladies in high heels, water at $1000 per liter and Huabao, an interesting stock on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

Missing Bronte

Time for Discover

Solar panel prices

Models for a Greek Sovereign Default

Some comments on the UBS Rogue Trader

Welcome to day-traders anonymous (French Bank edition)

Electronic fax? Really. Doing the time-warp with J2Global.com

Repost: My old notes on Northern Rock

Risk management and sounding crazy

The retail price of solar panels

Weekend edition: Hempton vs the Hurricane in a blow-off launch of "The Business"

Bank of America: some comment on the Buffett deal

Bank of America: time everyone took a long cold shower and sobered up

Trina Solar conference call notes

Trina Solar's very understanding banks...

Software eats part of the world

The SEC should do a secondary suspension of Longtop Financial Technology

Trina Solar and the meaning of "strategic partnership"

Radio National program on failures of the audit profession

Google and proprietary formats

Four days and roughly flat

Trina Solar: Somebody got lucky, but it was an accident

Paul Krugman vs Mr Bean

Who has got the margin call?

Are prospective expenditure matching funds in Trina Solar's debt covenants?

So that makes it alright then...

Wage inflation in Australia (POST NOW WITHDRAWN)

Google Plus thinks I am a social climber...

Apartment shopping in Hong Kong

Hollysys - a blog post inspired by the railway crash

Competition and managing money

Today a single link about China (and Apple)

When you talk to a journalist off the record how safe are you?

Why Meridith Whitney's concerns do not matter

China frauds: In (partial) defense of the auditors

Helping Charles Li find the weeds in his Hong Kong garden

The Paulson Sino Forest loss

Sino Forest: some ancient history

I got yesterday's post wrong

Sino Forests and a puzzle for media analysts

Lessons in my Desire

Sino Forest quote of the week

Sino Forests – some thoughts

Who owns ashwoodresources.com? Light and mystery...

Reminding Peter Johnston what he once thought about Astarra

Muddy Waters: the finest take on a Chinese fraud yet

Who is Ashwood Resources? And who owns ashwoodresources.com?

Letter to a client

Those clever people at China Fire and Security and Bain

Longtop makes an announcement

Guns, lobbyists, poachers and owl hunters: Northern and Voyager Oil and Gas weekend edition

Hot IPOs

Longtop Financial: lessons in the morphology of sin, loss of virginity and your 17 year old daughter

It's only a Northern Conference Call

The Steve Madden counter example

More comment on Longtop's capital efficiency

Longtop and the remarkable capital efficiency of the Chinese cloud

The scuttlebutt method of stock research

Gulf Resources: sometimes you only need to look at the accounts

Capital management in a Chinese software firm

Fatal Risk – the must-read book on AIG's failure

Universal Travel Group: auditor resigns edition.

Singapore-Australia stock exchange merger: reasons for the veto

China Media Express and a comment on the efficient market hypothesis

Northern Oil versus Brigham Exploration Company

When senior executive pay becomes parody: Transocean edition

Northern Oil's expanding share count

The guy in charge of purchasing acreage at Northern Oil

Northern Oil related party statements

The marvellous Wall Street capitalization machine: Northern Oil edition

Northern Oil and Gas – the source of the strange auditor

The Street Sweeper on Northern and Voyager: Part 2

Northern Oil and Gas: It's only a Northern Song

Starr Asia sues CCME and others

China Agritech: How should I reply to Kevin Theiss re China Agritech?

Weekend edition: Spoof of Brian Cox's Wonders of the Solar System

Danger danger: The Wall Street Journal has no idea on how to do hedge fund due diligence

What the demise of China Media Express says about the demise of Hank Greenberg and AIG

Banking and supercatastrophe

China Media Express: all will be revealed

French intelligence on Libya

Keeping up appearances

The high frequency traders are just making it up

Audacious stock promoters or gungslinger day-traders

Diversions: Champian Fulton

Health care and fiscal reform

Weekend reading: Guadalcanal and Australian foreign policy

A small hedge fund manager’s lament

China Agritech: Getting Wayne Tsou of Carlyle to explain Chinese excellence in nanotechnology production

China Agritech: more miracles in the plant

China frauds that kill people

China Agritech: China's amazing productivity levels

Guanxi vs Analyst: Carlyle and the coming collapse in Asian Private Equity

Family values in the emerging market ruling class

China Agritech: more photos - more detail

China Agritech: a follow up

Flagrant breach of copyright by TeacherSoft

China Agritech. The "sniff test" and other questions for Anne Zheng and Carlyle

China Media Express: what disconcerted me when I read the accounts

The Microsoft-Google spat explained

China Media Express: The Wall Street Drama continues

Fred got laid off: it's on the foreclosure list now

What to do with Fannie and Freddie

Skepticism and wealthy investors

Swashbuckling versus risk: a comment on marketing small hedge funds

Some Logitech feedback and China macro

Logitech and a divergence into days payable outstanding, Dell, Apple, and macroeconomic conditions in China

How dope smokers with the munchies at 2AM almost destroyed the number three wholesale grocery distributor in Australia

The party is not over in Australia