May 1, 2002---CIT Al Gamper is a “Straight Shooter.”
Fitch Affirms CIT At 'A-'; Rating Watch At Negative
Stocks drop Wednesday on weak economic
data
Commercial Money Center
Up-Date
The Funding
Tree Up-Date
Trevor-Hocksmith-Hocksmith
Form Sterling Financial Group
Wednesday---
Odds and Ends
Steepest
Decline in Business Loans in 30 Years
May
2, 2002---Greater
Bay Bancorp Appoints Susan Black Prez. Community Banking
--One World Leasing-----Leasing Co-Op Up-Date
Uncertainty in U.S.Economy Fails to Dampen
Home Buyer’s Vigor
Leasing News Classified Ads
CMC Address-Telephone
Number
AOL Chooses
GoogleXerox Comments On Ratings Action by Moody's
May
3, 2002---Commercial
Money Center Telephone Numbers
Jobless Rates Rise to 6% Nationwide
View CEO Paychecks at Forbes Magazine Ratings
Rates for 30-year and 15-year mortgages dip to six-month lows
U.S. Could Face Debt Crunch on June 28
Intern Program for Your Company
Milestone
Capital to Acquire Capital Financial Resources, Ltd.
Sunrise Int./ Electronics Form Central/South America
Leasing Partnership
ePlus Man Paul Brockmann Joins LFC Capital
Special:
CareerBuilder Survey Also Finds That 38 Percent Misrepresent
Qualifications
May
6, 2002---Las
Vegas EAEL/UAEL Conference---Steve Geller
Bob Rodi Report on the Las Vegas Conference
Mission Accomplished---Reitman Brings “Archie”
Home
This Week ---May 6-10
Duane Russell Experience at the Commercial
Money Center
Ron Caruso on the Leasing Industry—Profound
and Current Comments
Only time will solve bad reports on credit---Ann Perry
Streamlined Sales Tax Update - NCSL Task Force
Meets
May
7, 2002---Gold
prices exceed $310 and stay there
Fed Expected to Keep Rates Low
Milestone Cap Acquire Capital Financial Resources
CIT Tyco IPO Continues to Get Bad Press
Goldman Sachs to Market the CIT IPO
FleetBoston to Pay $2.4 Million in Bankvest Bankruptcy
Ruling
( Hello, John Colton!!! )
Tuesday---Odds and Ends
IKON's Captive Leasing Arm, Private Placement
of $250 Million
( yes, they are hiring! )
ePlus Network Center Delivers Secure Network
Managed Services
Fitch To Release Finance, Leasing & Credit
Card Company Annual
Special:
Tax Receipts--- As paper piles up, which do you keep?
May
8, 2002---Merrill
Lynch Enters the Internet Fray
CIT Offering of $1.07 Billion Lease Security
Post office to cut 8,000 more workers, still faces major deficit
Survey Finds Majority Small Biz Still Chose Choose Equip.
Leasing
U.S. Internet Traffic Experiences Annual Growth100%, Just
17% Revenue Growth
CapitalStream Selects TIBCO Software
Fed policies help soften blow of recession
Actual Federal Reserve Press Release
Office vacancy climbs to 19% in SF Bay Area
Consumer Credit Grew $4.6B in March
Wednesday ------ Odds and Ends
Zagat restaurant surveys go online
May
9, 2002---Bancorp
Group To Sell $16 Million Portfolio
Thursday---Odds and Ends
(1Lease-John Kruse- Martin J. Barteske
Recession Not Over-Zagat On Line-
Crabfeast June 11—“Archie”-MAEL Golf)
Weak Labor Market Continues to Drive Expansion Down
Odessa Technologies LeaseWave at NCMIC
Vendor Financing Conference,Chicago This Fall
IOS Capital, IKON'S Captive Leasing
Study: Air Force Lease Plan Costly
House panel answers Amtrak's pleas for $1.2 billion to avoid route
cuts
Good News !!!! Coke debuts new vanilla flavor at Connecticut
cafe
May
10, 2002---The Leasing Rag----MSM Capital Photo
Credit Scoring---from
our leader Bob Rodi
Another Wow!!! about
LincCapital
Top Leasing Technology
Sunrise International
Leasing Corp. #1 and #2;
(Their Press
Release)
PDS Gaming Announces Renewal of $3.5 Million Line of Credit
Leasing Industry Pleads
Its Case To FASB
Comdisco Accepts
$1 Million Settlement From CIT
AOL Bonds Reduced
to Just Above Junk
May
13, 2002---MSM
Capital Sign
McCue Number #1
Credit Scoring
Parker Leasing
Hoax Making the Rounds
CIT Public Relations
CIT Arranges $340 Million Sale/Leaseback
Financing For PG&E National Energy
Group ( Parent is in bankruptcy, plus has many local and state
lawsuits in CA)
Unemployment Trend Not Equal
in US Winners,
Losers, and Liars
As Salary Grows, So Does
a Gender Gap
Willis Lease Finance 1st
Q Profits Total $1 Million PDS Gaming
1st Quarter $3.9 Million Loss
Pitney Bowes Global Credit Services Selects Cyence
May
14, 2002---GE Capital Expects To Issue Up To $70 Billion In
New Debt
BancPartners Texas Office
David Mayer Monthly
News Letter
Bridge Transport
Complaint
CIT---Where
are You?
Parker Leasing
McCue Correction
Leasing Rules
for Phone Start-Ups Are Upheld
Retail sales
up 1.2 percent in April, best showing in six months
Tech Data
U.S/American Express New
Leasing Program for Technology Resellers
DVI Reports
QIII Net Loss of $9.2 Million
May
15, 2002---GE Capital: Still the Champ in
Making Money
PSC Adds Richard
Field to Board of Directors
PDS Gaming Completion
$3.3M Native American Credit Facility
InfoLease:
Int. Decision Systems/Premier Lease/Loan
S.F.,
San Jose lose stature as business-friendly cities
When
bigger isn't better re: Bank Stock
May
16, 2002---Tyco/CIT Growth
AmX Welcomes Employees to Hq
Tech Data/Amx Leasing
It’s Official—ASC
eLNA event—Sell-Out Each Year
Remember When: 9/25/01
ELA Press Release
May
17, 2002---New IBM Chief Confirms Layoffs
Tyco says comfortable with estimates, cash situation
Tyco plans to pay off $10 billion in debt
Personal Bankruptcy Filings Up 15.2 Percent
Comdisco Chapter 11 plan, disclosure filed
with SEC
6 Ex-Employees Win Judgment Against
MSM Capital
Mortgage rates move higher this
week
Teamsters push UPS on contract, Union to Hold Strike Vote
AOL Time Warner Execs Admit Missteps—Big Time
At AOL, Parting Without the Sweet Sorrow
Fitch Rates $1.07B CIT Equipment Collateral 2002-VT1
Congress Must Act Now to Keep Banks Out of
Real Estate
Dell Profit Exceeds Firm's Forecast
Sunrise International Leasing Reports Strong 1st
Q 2002 Results
U.S. Economy: Production Rises; Core Inflation Tame
Comdisco Fiscal2nd Q and Six Month Financial Results
May
20, 2002---Tyco
Affirms Forecasts, Expects CIT Spin-off or Sale in Less than 45
Days
Lessors Network Establishes Newswire For Equipment Leasing
Industry
Executive Solutions for Leasing and Finance to Expand
Malloy and Associates/MonitorDaily Complaint
Ron Caruso Food for Thought
The Week Ahead May
20-26, 2002
Monday---Odds and Ends
eLessors August Conference
Agenda
Hal Horowitz Remembers
Jim Merrilees at Golf
Group details plan
for bringing pro football back to L.A.
Vision FinancialPromotes Kimberly S. Smith to Chief Financial
Officer
Goodbye “Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire”
May
21, 2002---U.S. leading economic indicators drop in April
Tyco Rises 5.8% on Optimism About Plans for CIT Unit
Oracle Enters Leasing Fray with Lease Management Software
Leasing Group Announces Strategic Financing Solutions with
Ask Jeeves
International Decision Systems Makes Major Move
Johnnie Johnson, CLP, in Kuwait
Readers Agree on Caruso and “The Graying of
the Leasing Industry.”
MonitorDaily Complaint Reaction
Heritage Funding, Overland Park, Kansas
Webster Agrees to Acquire Asset-Based Lending/Leasing
Business
Court Approves Kellstrom Industries Asset Sale
LA. Secession Crucial Vote Tomorrow
California home prices hit new
peak in April
May
22, 2002---Merrill Lynch to Pay $100 Million “Chump Change”
to Settle Analyst Charges
U.S. Stocks Fall on Concern Profit Rebound Will Disappoint
Fed's Olson: Banking Industry Is Sound but “Wobbly”
Despite a Year of Upheavals, Economic Optimism Is High?
Saks Reports $25.4 Million Quarterly Loss
Perelman Sells Stake in Golden State Bank
(California Thrift ) to Citigroup For $5.8 Billion
UPS workers approve strike (sell UPS Leasing?)
Six arrested over 'Nigerian e-mail' fraud
IKON Prices $635 Million Securitization
The Monitor Broadcasts Daily Interest Rate Updates
Make it Happen--- Phil Lieber
Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation
UAEL Special Early Early Bird Discount
Larkin Named President of AMI Leasing
William J. Bridget--Obituary
May
23, 2002---Commercial Money Center, Las Vegas---Up-Date
Banks report big increase in bad loans, foreclosures
eLessors Opens Events Page---with Discounts
Treasury official calls threat of terrorist attack an 'economic
wild card'
Fraud Software Shared with Law Enforcement
MSM Capital—Bulletin Board Complaints
S&P Asgns Rtg to Central Leasing's Japanese ABS
Dell’s Latest Program for Consumers/Business
Former Financier Pleads Guilty---Vatican Involved?
Netscape—Solves Glitch, Goes for the Gusto
May
24, 2002---Rates on 30-year and 15-year mortgages drop
this week
LeaseWizard Rolls Out 50-State Live Lease Quotes
MAEL Golf Tournament- Last Monday, Chicago
Payments/Information re: Commercial Money Center
Friday----Odds and Ends
The Trend Today for Leasing/Leasing Associations Beware
Equipment Leasing Association June Events
United Association of Equipment Leasing Events
Los Angeles to Break-Up—On November Ballot
Stan Evans to Join Legal Solutions
Automotive Lease Guide (ALG) and Edmunds.com Collaborate to
Provide Consumers Lease Versus Buy' Decision Tools (equipment,
too)
May
28, 2002---Leasing News Classified Job Wanted Survey
Siska Named Chicago Chapter Prez of National Funding Assoc.
US Bancorp Commercial Money Center Portfolio Announcement
MSM Capital Bulletin Board Complaint Reaction
This Week In Economic Events
Debbie Monosson Answers Bob Rodi and Others re: Cry for
Education
May
29, 2002---CIT Group—The Truth and Nothing But
the Truth
Commercial Money Center Payments
IKON Completes $300 Million Unsecured Credit Facility
GE Capital to Sell $6 Billion of Debt Securities
Leasing News Classified Ads Work
Not the Monitor Monthly
Community Banks Optimistic/Grant Thornton
Netbank Brings Mortgage In House
ELFT Conference To Sell Out Early
Bye-Bye Brokaw after 2004 Elections
Conseco's Wendt Responds to Moody's Downgrade
Consumer Expectations Ebb/House Prices Up
Existing Homes in California Hit New High
Amtrak To Sell Off Its Assets to Survive
May 30, 2002---FirstLease Acquires
Hamilton National Leasing
CBA Auto Finance Study Shows Shift From Leases to Loans
Techfi Corp. Announces the Release of Web Office™
September/2001 Remember When
Performance Indicators Report Reveals Continued Growth In The
Equipment Leasing Industry
May
31, 2002---Last Day---You Can Fax a credit card.
One Lucky Fellow---Don Klein
Another Lucky Fellow—Rich Viola
Continued US jobless claims hit 19-year high
The Funding Tree—Up-Date
Gregory A. Smith joins Z Resource Group
Best
Equipment Lease Marketing Book Now Available as CD
Fed
banking regulators put banks on notice about unfair practices
law
Sixteen inventors added to Hall of Fame
Financial Federal Announces Record Net Earnings
