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Here is a quick look at how the Oracle of Omaha’s top 10 holdings have performed recently.
Hedge fund ValueAct Capital Management has disclosed acquisition of 5.7% stake in Agrium.
EMC may be under activist pressure, but the storage king reported that its third-quarter revenue was a record for the period.
Jon OggAmgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) used to be the king of biotech by size. That was then, and now is the time for a break-up or other efforts. At least that is the case brought by Third Point LLC and...
Standard & Poor's has a real warning: Spin-offs often hurt the credit quality of the parent company that is left behind.
Carl Icahn has lived up to his promise for an interesting open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Activist investor Carl Icahn tweeted a message late Wednesday morning that he would be sending an "interesting" open letter to Apple.
ThinkstockEMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) has formally responded to the letter issued by activist investment advisor Elliott Management for EMC to begin the process to divest its super-majority voting...
eBay was given high marks by the market this week when the company finally capitulated to the outside pressure by Carl Icahn.
ThinkstockNews that Relational is winding down could be a negative for several stocks. The Wall Street Journal reported that Co-founder Ralph Whitworth’s throat cancer has returned and that the...
Now that eBay has agreed to spin off its PayPal division, we can’t help but wonder what the future holds for PayPal as an independent company.
In the drama of Icahn’s pursuit of eBay in an effort to get it to spin off its PayPal business, the eBay CEO played the part of the mouse to Icahn’s cat.
Nine months ago activist investor Carl Icahn launched a drive to get eBay to split off the PayPal payments segment of the company.
PetSmart is not going to be taken private, or so the analyst team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch believes.
ThinkstockThe Direxion iBillionaire Index ETF (NYSEMKT: IBLN) recently made some serious changes to its portfolio, based upon iBillionaire Index changes. The exchange-traded fund has made several...