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Market Wrap For December 17: Markets Relatively Calm Before The Potential Storm
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - 5:51pm | 2637Read More...The main question going in to Tuesday's trading session was whethere the Fed will decide to scale back its $85 billion monthly bond buying program. A budget deal in Congress and solid economic data make the case that tapering will begin sooner rather than later. Major indices were virtually...
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Goldman Sachs And Other Top Financial Stock Picks For 2014 From Credit Suisse
Sunday, December 15, 2013 - 10:47am | 870Read More...Among the financial stocks that analysts at Credit Suisse expect to flourish in the coming year are private equity firms Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO) and Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX), as well as investment broker giant Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) and asset manager State Street (NYSE: STT...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of July 22 (AAPL, GM, MCD, NFLX)
Monday, July 22, 2013 - 7:29am | 1274Read More...The earnings crunch continues this week. Reports are due from the likes of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) and General Motors (NYSE: GM), which are expected to say their earnings were lower than a year ago. On the other hand, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Ford (...
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Two Major Firms Walk Away from Hulu Buyout
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 - 11:51am | 589Read More...At least two firms have lost their bid to acquire the Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) of television. According to the New York Post, Guggenheim Digital Media and KKR (NYSE: KKR) are no longer in the running to purchase Hulu. While several companies have been added to the prospective buyer's list this year...
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Hulu Sale Inches Closer as DirecTV, AT&T and Others Quietly Bid (DTV, T)
Tuesday, July 9, 2013 - 10:40am | 702Read More...It seems that the only firms that don't want Hulu are its current owners. Six years ago, News Corp.'s (NASDAQ: NWS) Fox network joined forces with NBC (which had not yet been acquired by Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA)) to build the ultimate online video site for television. Thus far, they seemed to have...
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Top-Performing Dividend Payers in Finance with the Most Upside Potential (APO, AGO, FIG)
Saturday, June 8, 2013 - 12:46pm | 844Read More...It is not unusual for stocks on a tear to overrun their mean price targets, which is a signal of how far analysts on average expect the share price to climb. Some of the top-performing financial stocks over the past six months that pay dividends, such as CapLease (NYSE: LSE), NYSE Euronext (NYSE...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of February 4
Sunday, February 3, 2013 - 5:13pm | 1026Read More...The S&P ended last week above 1,500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 14,000. Some strong earnings reports could push the markets higher, and there are plenty of quarterly reports on the schedule this week. Analysts by and large expect to see year-over-year earnings per share (EPS)...
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Have Bain Capital's Woes Spread to Other Private Equity Firms?
Saturday, July 14, 2012 - 12:38am | 890Read More...Private equity firm Bain Capital, and its actions during its first 15 years, have come under increasing scrutiny as a result of Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. Romney was one of the firm's founders, and he has said that he was an executive of Bain Capital until 1999, although SEC...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of February 6
Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 6:39pm | 1330Read More...There will be plenty more quarterly reports this week for analysts and traders to peruse. On the schedule are Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS), PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), Visa (NYSE: V), Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS), Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFM) and Yum! Brands (NYSE:...
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Will Yahoo! Finally Sell its Asian Assets to Alibaba?
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 6:28pm | 1153Read More...That's the question everyone is asking. But will we ever get an answer? If this Dealbook report is accurate, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) board members could be meeting this Thursday to discuss an offer from Alibaba Group and Softbank. The two entities are eager to gain at least a portion of Yahoo!'s...
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KKR Set to Acquire Capital Safety
Monday, November 28, 2011 - 1:20pm | 147Read More...Following on the heels of its deal for Samson Investment, the biggest company takeover by a private-equity firm announced this year, KKR & Co. (NYSE: KKR) reportedly is set to acquire Capital Safety, a UK- based safety harness maker. The bid could value Capital Safety at about $1.1 billion,...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of October 31
Sunday, October 30, 2011 - 11:31am | 1163Read More...Halloween and the Day of the Dead arrive this week. If analysts' forecasts are correct, there are only a few earnings reports that may scare investors. For instance, Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR) earnings are predicted to have fallen 93.1% year over year to $0.58 per share. Allstate (NYSE:...
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Blackstone Among Investors Vying for Anglo Irish's U.S. Loans
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 9:47am | 380Read More...Investor groups said to be vying for $9.65 billion in U.S. property loans held by Anglo Irish Bank include those led by Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX), Centerbridge Capital Partners, TPG Capital and Cerberus Capital Management. The deadline for bids was yesterday. The Dublin-based bank was...
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Blackstone Group to Take Emdeon Private
Friday, August 5, 2011 - 9:20am | 368Read More...Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX) has signed a definitive agreement to take health-care payment services company Emdeon (NYSE: EM) private in a transaction valued at about $3 billion. Blackstone will pay $19 a share for the Nashville, Tenn., company; the stock closed Thursday at $18.35. Debt financing...
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Deutsche Bank Updates 6/29/11
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 7:59am | 829Read More...Deutsche Bank made a number of updates in a research report published today. Legg Mason (NYSE: LM) had its rating upgraded from Hold to Buy. At the same time, its price target was raised from $36 to $38. On Tuesday, Legg Mason added 0.5% to its value to end the day at $31.94....
