The integration of Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers’s North American investment banking team continued apace on Monday, as the British firm announced its deal-makers leadership team. Of the executives named in Barclays Capital’s announcement, all but a few are veterans of Lehman, which collapsed in September. All of the 15 sector verticals hail from Lehman, whose [...]
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GM (GM) distributed its turnaround plan to Congress. It was almost exactly what the market expected, but it fudges one key issue, which is what happens to the company's finances if it loses a great deal more market share. According to the firm, "GM is seeking a term bridge loan facility from the Federal government of $12 billion to cover operating requirements under a baseline forecast of 12 mi...
Rob Curran reports: The quote for the Nasdaq Composite index was frozen for 48 minutes on platforms, screens, Web sites and other sources because of a glitch at the exchange’s index arm Tuesday. The Nasdaq Composite was up 18.13, or 1.3%, at 1416.2 for 48 minutes. A spokesperson for Nasdaq OMX Group said the freeze began at 3:07 p.m. and was resolved at 3:55 p.m. The Nasdaq finished up 51...
It isn’t just the auto-makers looking to sell off corporate jets. Apparently, financial firms are, too. This time, it’s Citigroup, which has put two corporate planes up for sale through a Maryland-based airplane broker, CityFile reported. The Web site couldn’t find a price, but described Dassault Falcon 900 jets as including mahongany woodwork, leather seating and ...
The Carlyle Group appears to have lost interest in buying Neuberger Berman, Lehman Brothers‘ asset management unit. And it is unclear whether anyone else is interested besides two private equity firms, Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman. Carlyle, the private equity firm that helped instigate the current round of bidding for Neuberger, has decided not to [...]
The commercial finance firm is upping its capital, hoping to qualify for the coveted bank rescue plan.
If GM (GM) needed dramatic news to help explain why it needs a bailout from Washington, the car firm got it. Sales at the company were off 41% in November. YTD unit sales dropped 22%. The stock was pushed down 3% on the news but quickly recovered. Total vehicles sold moved down to 153,000 from 261, 000 in November 2007. Douglas A. McIntyre
What exchange traded fund (ETF) investors and Wall Street analysts have suspected for awhile is officially confirmed: the United States is in a recession, and it’s been going on for one year. The question now is, where does an investor go from here? Aaron Siegel for Investment News reports that the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. confirmed that, numbers and indicators aside, we ...
A reader recently asked me to give a look at the German DAX Index in terms of a possible Elliott Wave Count to see how it related to the US Equity Indexes. Here is my preferred count on the DAX Index on both the Weekly and then zooming in on the fractal Daily Count: German DAX Weekly: The DAX Elliott count is very similar to that of the S&P 500, with the exception that the topping process ...
Semiconductor companies are planning sharp production cuts for both Q4 2008 and Q1 2009, according to a report today by Craig Berger, chip analyst at Friedman Billings Ramsey. He says that PC chip firms are seeing “significant production weakness,” as are communications IC producers - and that semiconductor companies are adjusting their own output accordingly. Here’s a rundown...