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Carl Icahn has used the mess at Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) to try to take four board seats. Chesapeake’s shares have cratered because of trouble involving the side-by-side investments of its CEO...
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Investor Carl Icahn now holds about 80% of oil refiner and fertilizer maker CVR Energy Inc. (NYSE: CVI). Icahn held about 69% of the company before the close of his extended tender offer last Friday....
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Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s this morning lowered the corporate credit rating of Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) from ‘BB’ to ‘BB-’, and put the company on negative credit...
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Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMLN) is supposed to be getting a takeover offer soon, or at least it is expected to receive or disclose several possible bids soon. Now the company has one more bit...
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Diabetes drug maker Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: AMLN) has hired bankers and lawyers to help the company find a buyer. In February Amylin turned down a $3.5 billion ($22/share) offer from...
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Metal and steel fabricator Commercial Metals Corp. (NYSE: CMC) reported second fiscal quarter earnings this morning, and the company’s EPS came in at $0.25, absolutely smashing the consensus...
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Carl Icahn was supposed to be done and through with his efforts against Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation (NYSE: LGF). That was what we thought at any rate based upon prior news releases and...
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Investor Carl Icahn has agreed to sell his stake in Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (NYSE: LGF) at a discount to yesterday’s closing price of $7.52. That announcement came shortly after Icahn also...
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Now that it’s known that investor Carl Icahn is acquiring shares in Oshkosh Corp. (NYSE: OSK) it appears that the stock in the maker of specialty vehicles is going to break back above its 200-day...
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We have already seen (some) of the position changes of Warren Buffett, but the old guy wouldn’t share many ‘confidential positions’ so we are whale watching in other ponds. We wanted to take...
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Lawson Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: LWSN) has bucked the market today and shares have risen after news of its $1.8 billion buyout offer on Friday. It was an offer from software company Infor and from...
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Electric energy provider Dynegy (NYSE: DYN) has been through a great deal recently. It threatened to file Chapter 11. The firm said it might not be able to refinance a credit facility. The...
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