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Leucadia Exec Gets Big Pay to Stay…

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

The Change in Control terms for executives at Leucadia National Corp. (LUK) were already generous, but for Vice President Justin R. Wheeler, they just got a lot better.
Late last Friday afternoon, Leucadia filed this 8-K and an attached letter agreement to set out Wheeler’s new deal with the company.  According to the document, the new [...]

The paper shuffle at Hess Corp…

Monday, March 8th, 2010

One of the challenges of reading annual reports is sifting through the massive dump of exhibits and figuring out what has been filed previously and what hasn’t. And despite what you’re probably thinking, that work isn’t always as glamorous as it sounds.
Occasionally, though, the scrutiny pays off, as it did when we reviewed the [...]

Exxon Mobil directors say fill er up…

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Gas prices may be much lower than they were during the summer of 2008, when they were approaching $5 a gallon in many parts of the country. But we couldn’t help but think about gas prices as we dipped into the 10-K that Exxon Mobil (XOM) filed on Friday.
In the filing, which was significantly longer [...]

Digging into Xerox’s 10-K…

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Today’s the deadline for the many companies that are on a calendar year to get their 10Ks in to the SEC, and the folks here at footnoted couldn’t be happier. We won’t bore you with how we spent our respective weekends combing through over 900 alerts to assemble a hefty spreadsheet of all the different [...]

What’s behind those higher rates at Time Warner Cable…

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Last fall’s public stand-off between Time Warner Cable, Inc. (TWC) and News Corp. (which owns the Fox broadcast network) involved a public spat over fees, but – as consumers know – regardless of which company was “right,” consumers’ bills went up.  And if the prediction in this article is correct, annual hikes of about 5% may [...]