Doug Kass is the president of Seabreeze Partners Management Inc. Until 1996, he was senior portfolio manager at Omega Advisors, a $6 billion investment partnership. Before that he was executive senior vice president and director of institutional equities of First Albany Corporation and JW Charles/CSG. He also was a General Partner of Glickenhaus & Co., and held various positions with Putnam Management and Kidder, Peabody.
Kass received his bachelor's from Alfred University, and received a master's of business administration in finance from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1972. He co-authored "Citibank: The Ralph Nader Report" with Nader and the Center for the Study of Responsive Law and currently serves as a guest host on CNBC's "Squawk Box."
| May 17, 2013
| 1:50 PM EDT
Fed's Kocherlakota saying the economy in the US stinks and rates will stay low for a long time. Nothing new here.
This ...
| May 17, 2013
| 10:14 AM EDT
As expected previously.
| May 17, 2013
| 9:14 AM EDT
The proximate cause for the lift in futures is rrenewed speculation that the ECB might cut deposit rates to below zero.
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| May 17, 2013
| 8:32 AM EDT
If you are involved in QLIK - the DATA IPO should scream and it is a reasonable comp to QLIK.
Should be + for QLIK.
| May 17, 2013
| 6:29 AM EDT
Yesterday I mentioned that we should be monitoring the drop in lumber prices - and whether it presages a decline in hous...
| May 17, 2013
| 6:18 AM EDT
Seeing an overnight rally from Thursday's weakness: S&Ps +4.5, Euro Mkts +, Euro +, Crude +0.40, Gold -6 and 10 year...
| May 16, 2013
| 3:30 PM EDT
The proximate cause for today's modest sell off is the Fed's non voting Williams has said, "we could reduce somewhat the...
| May 16, 2013
| 3:08 PM EDT
Williams says Fed may be able to taper by this Summer.
| May 16, 2013
| 10:58 AM EDT
In the last eight trading days MONI.L has advanced by nearly 33% - I have peeled off some of this name.
May 16, 2013
| 10:02 AM EDT
Every component of the Philly Fed is negative.
As I wrote earlier this week we are in a Liquidity (Lite) Trap.
The Fed c...