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Shares of the maker of the ubiquitous Redbox video rental machines, Coinstar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSTR), have gotten a nice jolt today from a story in the New York Post that the company is in discussions...
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Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) founder and CEO Richard Schulze continues to push his case to take Best Buy private. “You can easily test how real my proposal is by granting me permission to...
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Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) has joined the wave of video game companies that may be up for sale. The great rumor mill of Wall St. (and Cyber Street) now has EA as the next possible buyout...
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David Einhorn and his hedge fund Greenlight Capital reported some changes to the fund’s portfolio last night. The fund added significant holdings in several health care stocks and eliminated a...
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According to a report in today’s New York Post, Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) “has met with investors about selling the Lands’ End brand, which accounts for as much as half the...
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There has been a lot of investment buying of foreclosed and distressed US houses, and one of the questions that always comes up is how an essentially local business can be managed on a national scale...
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MarketWatch reports: Knight Capital Group Inc. is close to winning a $400 million infusion from Chicago market maker Getgo and TD Ameritrade among others, as the stock-trading firm scrambles to raise...
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Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings (NYSE: LH) may soon be private if reports (or rumors) of a private equity buyout come true. There are now multiple reports that a private equity consortium is...
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Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) is back in play. We reported this as one of the companies that could be taken over as soon as this summer, and we now have more news supporting a deal of some sort....
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German holding company Joh. A. Benckiser (JAB) has agreed to acquire Peet’s Coffee & Tea Co. (NASDAQ: PEET) for $73.50 per share, or approximately $1 billion in cash. The price reflects a...
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What usually happens when you get two mergers announced in drugs and biotech in the same day? Investors begin to wonder which other peers and competitors might be on the M&A block. Monday’s...
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There is good news for defensive consumer products and high dividend investors: change is likely coming in some form at Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG). The market value as of yesterday was a...
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The ongoing calls to bring change at Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) are growing. The company’s shares have become stuck and many investors feel that the company has grown too large to be...
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Coldwater Creek Inc. (NASDAQ: CWTR) is nothing short of a highly unusual winner today. The news is that the women’s apparel retailer announced the closing of a five-year, $65 million senior...
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More biotech mergers are on the way! That is the verdict of Wall St. There may be patent protection risks associated with future regulation under health care, but deals in the biotech and emerging...
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