This 2 part series will cover recent market developments about Berkshire Hathaway, points to a strategy on how you may benefit more on the same trades he did recently and an option trading strategy that probably Berkshire uses for maximizing it returns on the underlying they find worth investing. Don’t forget to read the big picture of US stock markets. Markets are behaving pretty much th...
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The $50 billion takeover of Bell Canada appears to be on track to close by Dec. 11 — easing investor fears that the largest leveraged buyout in history would become another victim of the global financial crisis. Teachers Private Capital, Madison Dearborn Partners, Providence Equity Partners and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity teamed up to buy [...]
The news of the day was hardly positive, what with poor housing figures, more worries about the automakers, and concern in credit markets, but the late-day implosion probably sparked more than a few corner-office types storming onto the trading floor and shouting to nobody in particular, “What the hell just happened?” The collapse of major financial stocks — Citigroup finishe...
(Note: Before reading this update, make sure you check out the preface to the series we're doing on Hedge Fund 13F's here). This is the Third Quarter 2008 edition of our ongoing hedge fund tracking series. We're aiming to cover 35 or so prominent funds this time around and we'll be releasing the 13f analysis of each individual fund here in the coming weeks. We've already covered Whitney Tilson'...
Filed under: Private equity, RecessionHarvard is an easy target for the woes of our economy. Its business school produced George W. Bush, the fellow who's presided over the current economic catastrophe, and Rick Wagoner, the CEO of the largest automobile maker who's led its stock down 95% in the last eight years and now wants $25 billion worth of taxpayer money to keep the millions rolling into...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said at the company’s annual meeting today that the company is “done” holding acquisitions talks with Yahoo even given the announcement that Jerry Yang is stepping down. “We thought we had something that made sense. Didn’t make sense to them. We’ve moved on,” he said, according to Bloomberg. Ballmer reiterated that a partner...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer ruled out an acquisition of Yahoo Inc on Wednesday but said his company was interested in resuming talks on a Web search partnership.
Well, Yahoo (YHOO) holders got one thing they wanted - Jerry Yang’s head on a silver platter. But whether they get the other thing they want - a new bid from Microsoft (MSFT) at a considerable premium to the current price - is no sure thing. This morning, Wunderlich Securities analyst Martin Pyykkonen repeated his Sell rating and $10 target price on the shares. The analyst regards Yang...
Enterprise Products Partners LP (NYSE:EPD), a pipeline master limited partnership, increased its credit facilities by $593 million yesterday. The company obtained a $375 million senior revolving credit facility and a $218 billion senior term loan to add to its nearly $1.8 billion in senior unsecured revolving credit facilities.The term loan came from Japan's Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd, carries...