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It is the weekend and that means a review of last week’s unusual suspects and a review for key stocks in the week ahead.  Technically earnings season gets its first earnings report from a DJIA...
The economy is obviously getting better, so long as you are not one of the unemployed or about to lose your job.  Now with more than a 50% rally from the March lows and a Dow Jones Industrial...
SPACupdate.com monitors live deals involving blank check companies, associated stock and warrant transactions and relevant personnel moves.   GHL Acquisition Co. (AMEX: GHQ) completed its merger,...
SPACupdate.com monitors live deals involving blank check companies, associated stock and warrant transactions and relevant personnel moves. This week brings several issues and votes  in the special...
KKR must not carry the clout it once did. Eastman Kodak (EK) announced that it expects to raise up to $700 million through a series of financing transactions, including a commitment from KKR  to...
What happens when market rallies go on and on?  Outside of the basics, you just about always get a flurry of corporations and public entities selling shares as secondary offerings flood the...
Next week is still supposed to mark the initial public offering of what me be a very hot IPO.  Auto electric-battery maker A123 Systems Inc. is tentatively set to launch and begin trading...
For the first time in more than a year, a special purpose acquisition company, a SPAC, saw its shares broke through their trust value prior to a deal vote. In the last 12 months, blank checks...
Now that we are out of the woods in the crash scenario, assuming this week is no ill omen, investors may want to know which of the big companies would start to deploy their billions and billions of...
There is quite a bit changing in the land of special purpose acquisition companies, a.k.a. SPACs. We have been provided some key special purpose acquisition data by SPACupdate.com, which tracks major...
China Networks (OTC:CNWHF), which went public through SPAC Analyst Acquisition, is prepared to trade again on the AMEX after being moved to the OTC Pink Sheets for failing to maintain mandatory...
We have already noted on numerous occasions how the floodgates for re-sales or re-IPO’s of old private equity acquisitions have to come back on the market.  And now we have the first of many large...
The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) had a fairly busy day.  It seems that reports of the death of private equity may have been exaggerated.  The company had two key announcements today: it brought...
Avago Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is today’s IPO.  The deal priced 43.2 million shares at $15.00 per share to raise approximately $621 million.  This was at the high end of the indicated...
New date from S&P LCD presented by the FT, shows that large private equity firms have $400 billion in debt that needs to be paid in the next five years. That debt load could be a drag on rising...