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The Treasury and Congress are still trying to get sovereign funds to agree that their investments in US companies are "financial" and not "political". According to MarketWatch Treasury Undersecretary...
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Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (NYSE: SFE) has signed and exit agreement regarding its ownership position in three majority-held and three minority-held partner companies through a transaction with...
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The business press has had its ear to the rail, and it has heard that more capital is headed toward private equity funds. Some of this money may be invested by the huge sovereign funds which have...
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Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE: AGO) may not be the largest household name for a bond insurer or financial guarantor when you consider the woes of Ambac Financial (NYSE: ABK) and MBIA (NYSE: MBI). But...
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Blackstone (NYSE: BX) cannot be faulted for its creativity the way it can be for its share price. The firm says that it does not need the banks which have walked away from their commitments on...
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There is an interesting report out of Nikkei Net Interactive in Japan, which notes that US-based private equity giant Carlyle is buying a majority stake in a joint venture that produces LCD...
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There is a menagerie of companies with stocks that look like the boulevard of broken dreams because of the woes in the stock market and economy in January. But no group looks as bad as the group of...
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The US Congress is nervous about sovereign funds from places like China and the Middle East owning too many US banks and financial companies. Some how these firms are "strategic assets" which need to...
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Transmeta Corp. (NASDAQ: TMTA) may be an interesting stock now. The company scored a major win with a legal settlement/victory last year over Intel (NASDAQ: INTC). Now Transmeta issued a...
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The Blackstone Group (NYSE:BX) this morning announced that it has closed upon the Blackstone Credit Liquidity Partners L.P. and has secured capital commitments of more than $1.3 Billion. If you look...
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Blackstone (BX) is making a bid for miner Rio Tinto (RTP), at least according to The Telegraph. Rio has a market cap of over $150 billion, and will probably be sold at some kind of premium. That is a...
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A booming market in widgets makes most widget company management look good. It turns out to be the same with private equity. The people who run Blackstone (BX) looked like rocket scientists when...
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Now that Dubai International Capital has bought a piece of Sony (SNE), it must have a lot more capital to spread around. A shopping list: Yahoo! (YHOO) The stock is still down from $43 in January...
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Shares of United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE:URI) are being crushed with a 25% hit today. The company announced early this morning an "Extension of Expiration Date for Current Tender Offers and Consent...
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Despite reports that Wendy’s International Inc. (NYSE:WEN) would-be acquisition process is being hampered by liquidity concerns in the credit markets, its stock is actually up about 2% today. ...
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