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Carlyle is already one of the top and largest private equity firms in the world. Now it is set to be valued somewhere around $7.6 billion if its pricing goes off around the current targets. An...
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Do you remember the old United States Football League, or the USFL? It’s back, or it least it is trying to be brought back to life. This is the league that competed against the NFL from 1983 to...
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Oaktree Capital Group, LLC (NYSE: OAK) is looking to be an initial public offering which went from bad to worse. Let’s call is a double-busted IPO. The initial public offering price was $43.00...
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Travelzoo Inc. (NASDAQ: TZOO) is up for sale. At least that is what Reuters is reporting with a ‘citing sources’ of those familiar with the situation. The Internet travel information and...
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Pretty much as expected, the bidding for Great Wolf Resorts Inc. (NASDAQ: WOLF) is heating up. Last week the company got an offer from K-9 Acquisition Inc., an affiliate of Apollo Global Management...
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In mid-March, private equity giant Apollo Global Management LLC (NYSE: APO) offered to acquire Great Wolf Resorts Inc. (NASDAQ: WOLF), owner of 11 water parks and resorts, for $5/share and the...
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Premier Exhibitions, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRXI) is far from a typical public company and it has been featured by us as one of America’s most unusual public companies before. The company is a presenter...
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The Carlyle Group L.P. is still planning to come public via an initial public offering. The move will make one more private equity group public. If you have tracked the trends of small floats at...
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Michaels Stores, Inc. has just filed its paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to come public again via an initial public offering. Todays move confirms recent reports and...
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Increasing numbers of mutual funds have performances tied to huge investments in Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). (Reuters) Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, is in China to address production labor problems. (Reuters)...
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By now, most investors know that the large hedge funds are run by billionaires rather than millionaires. What many investors might not know is that some hedge funds are reaching the size of large...
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Gamestop Corporation (NYSE: GME) is still sitting in the same sort of No-Man’s Land position its chart has been in for some time. With a $3.2 billion market cap, its $23.50 share price is in the...
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The annual letter for Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) is out and the discussion immediately jumps in about who will succeed Warren Buffett, book value, buybacks, and the portfolio. Berkshire...
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of December 30, 2011. These public stock holdings have been broken...
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24/7 Wall St. has decided to calculate the total value of the Star Wars franchise ahead of the release of the 3D film “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” and while its ‘Star Wars: The Old...
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