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Restructuring never ends in many large corporations.  After a week’s worth of reading through dozens of corporate deals in the pipeline and analyzing others which could be close, it seems that...
It was during the most recent meltdown that we gave a list of companies where the stocks could still double, and Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) was one of them.  Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square disclosed...
Novell Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) is trading higher today on hopes that a higher buyout offer will be heading its way.  There is at least some caution despite the notion that the company is a niche play...
Leucadia National Corp. (NYSE: LUK) is generally touted as one of the baby Berkshires…. meaning it is treated along the same lines as Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) and Warren Buffett.  The...
Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) may have enough votes lined up for its takeover by Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), or it may not.  With Bono’s Elevation Partners and insiders having large stakes and all the...
In our daily stock and market rumors wrap up each morning, an interesting issue stood out this morning.  Zale Corporation (NYSE: ZLC) may be in play.  This is a continuation of other rumors about...
According to the annual pay survey done by AR: Absolute Return+Alpha magazine and reviewed by The New York Times, the top 25 hedge fund managers made $25.3 billion in 2009. David Tepper was at the...
Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) or Primerica Inc. (NYSE: PRI)?… The answer is both or either.  The financial supermarket is about to have one less aisle.  Citi is spinning off the life-insurance and...
Bono, the Irish rock star, has put significant money into Elevation Partners, arguably the worst run institutional fund of any size in the United States. Bono is listed as one of the five members of...
Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. (NYSE: PVH) has traders and investors speculating about or pondering which other apparel companies may become acquisition targets or which could end up in ‘mergers of...
When was the last time you kept a retailer buyout rumor on a watch list?  Or two retailers for that matter?  Friday’s trading was mixed with two buyout rumors in the retail segment.  GameStop...
KKR & CO. L.P. is back.  At least its IPO ambitions are.  Long live private equity! Long Live leveraged buyouts!  At least that is what the company wants you to think.  KKR plans to sell up...
Tower International, Inc., or Tower Automotive LLC, has just filed to come public in an IPO.  The company does not list any shares or or terms and did not list an exchange or a proposed stock...
If you have followed software companies for more than a decade, you have probably grown accustomed to seeing Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) act as a dead money stock.  The company has gone from having...
We are seeing more and more deal news in the land of special purpose acquisition companies and in blank check companies.  Some is good, while some is not.  SPACUpdate.com sent us some exclusive...
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