Spailout

One integral piece to completing the analytical puzzle for me and selecting stocks for our Decoding Wall St. portfolio is the dissection of action words and jargon. For instance, if a CEO utters such nonsense as, "sales will be relatively strong," it could mean his or her company's sales - like...

Ponder this for a brief second: before June 11, 2012, the financial jargon word “Spailout” never existed. Perhaps it was scribbled on a whiteboard hung in an investment bank conference room should Spain score some money from an outside party to save its banking system (sound smart: “bailout”),...