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AIG has received another letter from activist investor Carl Icahn demanding AIG bust itself up into smaller, more focused units.
Say what you want about media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, but he doesn’t give up easily.
On Friday, after activist investor Carl Icahn revealed a 12.1% stake in Pep Boys – Manny, Moe & Jack (NYSE: PBY), the stock bounced big in after-hours trading, but cooler heads appear to have...
Since the beginning of the fourth quarter of this year, shares of Freeport-McMoRan have lost about 10% of their value.
It seems that no company is too big for Carl Icahn to try to influence in an effort to unlock value. AIG is now Icahn's latest public target.
Yum Brands will spin off its Yum! China operations into a separately traded public company that will have exclusive rights to Yum's three top franchises.
IBM does have several of the hallmarks of a company that has too many divisions and is complicated beyond the necessity for holding a portfolio of lightly related divisions.
GE stock is sitting just under a multiyear high and could stand to run even further, if it keeps up this solid momentum gained from recent catalysts.
Copper miner and oil producer Freeport-McMoRan announced Wednesday morning that the company had appointed two new board members recommended by activist investor Carl Icahn.
Standard & Poor's has maintained GE's corporate credit rating, but it has now revised its outlook to Negative.
Wendy's chief executive officer is retiring, and many investors will have to determine what this really means for the company's positioning in the future.
Trian Fund Management announced that it had acquired a stake of more than 98 million shares in General Electric valued at approximately $2.5 billion.
Chevron has amended its bylaws to allow proxy access under certain circumstances to certain shareholders.
Bank of America has just joined the ranks of big banks and companies that survived a vocal shareholder proposal to split the role of chairman and chief executive officer.
Sysco Corp.Sysco Corp. (NYSE: SYY), at its 2015 Investor Day, presented a three-year strategic business plan to investors, analysts and others in attendance. The plan was designed to improve the...
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