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Some of the recent acquisitions by one public company or another have given shareholders huge windfalls. 3Par was sold at an extraordinary valuation after a bidding war between Dell (NASDAQ: DELL)...
A lawsuit alleges that Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) secretly bought problem cars. (Reuters) Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) earnings were better than expected. (Reuters) The AIA IPO moved up 17% on the Hong Kong...
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (NYSE: POT) is a company we feared would not really trade around its earnings and guidance.  The real news is still its pending offer from BHP Billiton plc (NYSE: BHP),...
Twitter  has, by most estimates, 145 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million...
Reuters: American International Group (NYSE: AIG) CEO Benmosche has cancer. (Reuters) Ford Motor (NYSE:  F) may post record profits. (Reuters) William Dudley of the New York Fed said the central...
Earnings season is in full swing and is peaking this week in the frequency of market moving and sector moving companies reporting quarterly results.  There are several DJIA components reporting...
Earnings season is in full swing and the peak will occur next week.  We have several DJIA components reporting earnings along with several other companies which are equally as important to the...
Reuters:   The US will push a trade and foreign exchange agenda at the G20 meeting. Reuters:   Fed officials are still not in agreement about quantitative easing. Reuters:   American International...
Practically from the time of the announcement by BHP Billiton plc (NYSE: BHP) that it was offering $38.6 billion to acquire Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. (NYSE: POT), the provincial government of...
Reuters:   Wall St. was disappointed by Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) revenue forecast. Reuters:   French police unblocked the fuel deposites held by strikers against auterity. Reuters:   The CEO...
Time has run out for Potash (NYSE: POT) to find an alternative to the bid made for it by BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP). The deadline for the $39 billion offer is November 18. Potash could let that date...
Reuters:   Geithner said the US would no devalue to dollar to get a trade advantage. Reuters:   Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) has begun foreclosures again. Reuters:   Roy Ozzie, the chief...
It was probably only a matter of time before China’s state-owned chemical company Sinochem walked away from trying to raise enough money to make an offer for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Ltd....
Updated throughout the day. Sinochem (NYSE: SNP) has given up on its bid for Potash (NYSE: POT) (Reuters) GM should have mid-November IPO (Reuters) Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has renewed it bid for Russian...
Higher ethanol, potash demand, ag-super-mergers, surging food prices… and now an ETF crossing the $2 billion in assets mark.  You have to ask if a bubble is being formed in agriculture.  Today...