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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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Caesars Entertainment Corporation (NASDAQ: CZR) is beyond weird when it comes to initial public offerings. This was one of our TOP 17 IPOS TO WATCH IN 2012. We also make no secret of the belief...
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Private equity firms are bad and evil because they fire workers to juice profits for billionaires who get to pay low tax rates! Is that the right logic? What if you found out that private equity...
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Caesars Entertainment Corporation is supposed to be one of the Top 17 IPOs to Watch in 2012. That remains the case, but it is not because we have such admiration nor because of great success. ...
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Facebook, Inc. has now filed its paperwork with the SEC which will allow the social networking giant to conduct an initial public offering. It should be no real surprise that financial terms were...
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Almost all investments rise and fall in price through time, and the same is true over the value of sports collectibles and baseball cards. The ‘investing’ rule in sports collectibles that has...
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ThinkstockAuto parts retailer The Pep Boys – Manny, Joe & Jack (NYSE: PBY) has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm The Gores Group for $1 billion cash, or $15/share. The price is a 24%...
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The Carlyle Group L.P. is still planning to be one of the top private equity initial public offerings of 2012. We even named it as one of the Top 17 IPOs to Watch in 2012. That charge is not due...
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The initial public offering market in 2012 is likely to be much stronger than many anticipate. Despite the lingering uncertainty and the underperformance of many popular IPOs in 2011, this year may...
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After losing about a third of its value in the last year, Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) may start to be thrown around as a private equity takeover name. A report from Bloomberg calls Best Buy a private...
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Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings may have given agriculture, potash, and fertilizer investors an early, yet so far unnoticed, Christmas gift. The Singapore fund has taken...
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If you have been watching the share prices of the solar stocks, you will understand the joke (and perhaps not even laugh) that investing in these has turned many 401-K retirement funds into 201-K...
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United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) is a leftover public company from the wave of failed private equity buyouts (of Cerberus) right before the recession took hold. As far as infrastructure building...
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Olympus may hire its former CEO, Michael Woodford, in the midst of an accounting scandal. (Reuters) Foreign investment in China drops for the first time in 28 months. (Reuters) Holiday sales continue...
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.B) does not get new analyst calls all that often, so when a new call comes up or when a change in ratings comes up it really tends to stand out like a sore thumb. ...
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