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If you thought that Bill Gates might have an ambition beyond just passive investing in the garbage and waste disposal sector, you might be correct. Bill Gates’ Cascade Investment, L.L.C. and the...
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Carl Icahn, who joined the Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) board on August 6.2008 after a long proxy fight with the company, is leaving. The portal company had rejected Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) search and...
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CIT Group, Inc. (NYSE: CIT) has had a lot of news this week. A lot this year for that matter. Last night there was word that it had reached a loan agreement with Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS). ...
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Ideation Acquisition Corp. (AMEX: IDI) gave us a volume spike alert over at VSInvestor.com, and it is very unusual to see a special purpose acquisition company suddenly have exponential trading...
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SPACupdate.com has provided 24/7 Wall Street with some exclusive coverage on key issues coming up in the realm of special purpose acquisition companies. 2020 ChinaCap Acquirco (NASDAQ: TTY; NASDAQ:...
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Conseco, Inc. (NYSE: CNO) was a mixed blessing today after the close. The firm is diluting shareholders with a secondary offering, but it also announced that the esteemed firm Paulson & Co. is...
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T. Boone Pickens gave a CNBC interview this morning with new energy predictions and trends to watch that he has not discussed before. Pickens is still maintaining that natural gas is the key for...
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Despite the notion that times are tough, mergers are still happening. If you look back at what we noted, the top 20 companies by market cap had over $335 billion in raw cash that could be used for...
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There is a very silly notion being brought to you by the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program’s Corporate Values Strategy Group and what is admittedly a rather impressive list of names...
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We have seen many significant developments in recent days regarding the field of M&A in form of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs. SPACUpdate.com sent us some key data on Secure...
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Bill Gross is co-CIO for arguably the most influential bond management firm in the U.S. PIMCO is the biggest ax in the bond market of the bond management firms, and Gross’ outlook for what lies...
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We have almost a whole new slate of stocks in this week’s round of “The Unusual Suspects” for key stocks traders need to keep an eye on for the week ahead. Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ:...
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Paulson & Co. Inc. has become a very influential firm that can now move a market after John Paulson made billions from properly betting against the fate of the US financial and banking sector...
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Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI) has been under fire of late from outside groups, although this time it is not over the founder’s secret web posting, not over a merger and antitrust issues,...
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John Paulson has been well known as a hedge fund manager because of the profits he made from short selling many of the key financial stocks. Yet his new filing shows a large long position as of the...
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