How do you save an investment bank from rumor mongers? Take it private, one analyst suggests.
Lehman Brothers, the investment bank whose stock has fallen more than 30 percent this month, has been targeted by the fear-trade just as Bear Stearns was earlier this year, Fox-Pitt Kelton analyst David Trone wrote in a research note.
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From Silicon Alley Insider, July 14, 2008:Well, at least everyone agrees: Microsoft, Yahoo, and Carl Icahn are all full of it: Yahoo says Microsoft gave it a 24-hour drop-dead ultimatum on the latest search deal.Microsoft and Carl Icahn say that Micros
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Activation problems? What activation problems?Swatting aside concerns about activation issues — ironically because of its iTunes software — Apple announced Monday that it had sold 1 million 3G iphones over the weekend, exceeding the m
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Alliance & Leicester had increasingly been looking like a takeover target and Spain’s Santander has taken advantage of 75 percent collapse in the mortgage banks’ share price over the past year.
The Spanish bank had made little secret of its ambition to expand in the UK banking sector following its acquisition of Abbey in 2004, having […]
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News of the Treasury’s plan to aid Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is dominating the conversation in financial circles Monday. In the accompanying video, Henry and I discuss what the deal means for:Taxpayers: Treasury Secretary
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Early Monday, news of the Treasury’s plan to aid Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was expected to trigger a rally in a technically oversold market recently dominated by negative sentiment. …
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BabyCenter may be one of the largest interactive media brands you’ve never heard of– unless of course you’re a parent or an expecting parent. Starting today, it’s aiming to be one of the world’s largest social networks.
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The war of words between Yahoo and the Microsoft-Icahn alliance resumed Monday morning as Yahoo detailed in an SEC filing why it rejected Microsoft’s latest offer to acquire its search business.AllThingsD’s
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