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courtesy of Hewlett-PackardHewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) can use all of the good news, or good rumors, that it can get. After all, the situation has turned into a death-spiral. MarketWatch is one...
Timken Co. (NYSE: TKR) has been in business for more than 100 years, making bearings and steel for a variety of industrial products. Now the company’s largest single shareholder, activist firm...
The market has seen better weekly jobless claims, a higher revised Q3 GDP report and better home sales data this morning. Shares are also higher on more hopes that a fiscal cliff resolution will be...
Jon OggAre big mergers really worth it? After this week’s merger implosion news by Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), 24/7 Wall St. wanted to review and analyze many of the really bad mergers of...
ThinkstockInsiders are using the recent market sell-off to purchase weak shares, at least that is the case for these stocks. Insiders can sell shares for a multitude of reasons. But when they buy...
Mark Hirschey / Wikimedia CommonsBerkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) (NYSE: BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings. Many changes had been made in...
Carl Icahn is going after Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX). A 13D filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that Carl Icahn, via investment entities under him, has taken a stake of 9.98%...
Navistar International Corp. (NYSE: NAV) is still in trouble after it had to cancel its big engine initiative. While that blunder may have cost billions of dollars when all was said and done, the...
The writing has been on the wall for a couple of weeks, ever since Third Point, the hedge fund managed by Daniel Loeb, announced that it had put together a “significant” stake in Murphy Oil Corp....
Activist investor Carl Icahn said in a statement today that he will make a tender offer of $32.50 per share in cash for the outstanding shares of Oshkosh Corp. (NYSE: OSK). Icahn owns about 9.5% of...
Navistar International Corp. (NYSE: NAV) may still want to remain an independent company, but the troubled truck and engine maker has managed to avoid a proxy fight. The price reaction on Monday is...
In early September, activist investor Carl Icahn demanded four seats on the board of Navistar International Corp. (NYSE: NAV), calling the appoint of Lewis Campbell as chairman and interim CEO...
More change is coming to Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF). Well, maybe. After yesterday’s news reports that it had hired Goldman Sachs to seek strategic alternatives, shares shot up to $38...
Activist investor Carl Icahn is nothing if he is not persistent. He is now calling on Navistar International Corp. (NYSE: NAV) to make four board seats available to shareholders immediately. Icahn,...
Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman is already out with an amended filing after his activist investor activities increased against General Growth Properties Inc. (NYSE: GGP), which also brings up a bit...