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courtesy of PayPalThe old activist push against eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) to spin out PayPal is now even closer to taking form. In 2014, eBay decided to separate the PayPal and eBay units into two...
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A new Moody's report suggests, or warns, that shareholder activism continues to rise and that this trend could have negative implications for credit investors.
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Lumber Liquidators gave an update on its sales for the first quarter of 2015, and it seems things did not deteriorate as badly as many may have feared.
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Dow Chemical announced that it has decided to split off and sell its chlorine business to Olin, which will make Olin the largest chlorine producer in the world.
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Famed activist investor Carl Icahn increased his stake in Chesapeake Energy to 11% after the company announced more cuts to its 2015 capital spending budget.
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Shares of Herbalife may still be way down from when activist investor Bill Ackman first publicly went after the maker of vitamins and health products, but they have also bounced handily of late.
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24/7 Wall St. takes a look at six potential mergers that investors and activist investors would love to see in the months or years ahead.
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Merrill Lynch had a team of analysts weigh in on the proposal that MGM Resorts International become a real estate investment trust.
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Hedge fund Land and Buildings announced on Tuesday that it plans to nominate four candidates for the board of directors of MGM Resorts.
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Merrill Lynch does not see much of a chance for an upside in DuPont anymore and downgraded the stock to Underperform.
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Stocks are still very close to all-time highs, and this bull market is now six years old. It turns out that some stocks made unusual moves last week.
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Herbalife was under attack yet again on Friday morning by activist investor Bill Ackman on an appearance on CNBC.
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United Technologies announced Friday morning that it will repurchase $2.65 billion in stock in an accelerated repurchase agreement with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
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No one has come to the aid of Lumber Liquidators until now, when activist investor Robert Chapman jumped on board.
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Shareholder Starboard Value has released a letter to Staples commending its turnaround efforts, but also asking for more.
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