I agree with Bess at Dealbreaker. Membership to the Do Not Short list should require at least an Hermes tie.
The following companies recently felt they'd join the Market Manipulation Party, hosted by David Jaffee.
(Note David Einhorn's white whale, Allied Capital even made the list.)
GLG GLG Partners, Inc.
GE General Electric Co.
OCN Ocwen Financial Corporation
KBW KBW, Inc.
GFG Guaranty Financial Group Inc.
MFG Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.
FMR First Mercury Financial Corporation
STC Stewart Information Services Corporation
FCF First Commonwealth Financial Corporation
MTB M&T Bank Corporation
DFS Discover Financial Services
BMO Bank of Montreal
TD Toronto Dominion Bank
CM Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
FMD The First Marblehead Corporation
BBV Banco Bilbao Vizcaya SA
CIB BanColombia SA
LM Legg Mason, Inc.
NFP National Financial Partners Corp.
AXP American Express Company
CIT CIT Group Inc.
GM General Motors Corporation
HIG The Hartford Financial Services Group
ADS Alliance Data Systems Corporation
ALD Allied Capital Corporation
RAS RAIT Financial Trust
DRL Doral Financial Corporation
FSR Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings
MCO Moody's Corporation
COF Capital One Financial Corporation
First Marblehead or GM, I'm not quite sure which one is luckier to still be in existence...
Wonder how come Alcatel-Lucent didn't try to weasel their way into this elite list, clearly they belong.
Posted by: Anal_yst | September 23, 2008 at 12:46 AM