The one potential benefit to the M&A slowdown? Helping the environment…a little.
It might be a stretch, but finding even the tiniest bright spot to the weak M&A environment may help soothe the pain felt as global dealmaking dropped 30 percent in the first half of the year.
With M&A volume down, and banks tightening the rein […]
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Banks battered by the credit crisis may look cheap, but so far neighbors have mostly resisted the temptation to gobble up neighbors, thanks in no small part to an accounting peculiarity that threatens to turn a target’s balance sheet into a ticking time bomb set to explode on purchase.
Under U.S. accounting rules, if a company […]
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In a near repeat of Wednesday’s session, stocks surged Thursday thanks to falling oil prices and better-than-expected results from JPMorgan, Coca-Cola, United Technologies and Nokia.
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From Silicon Alley Insider, July 17, 2008:The release is out. As we feared, a miss. Gross revenue and net revenue in line, EPS light (see below). Revenue benefitted heavily from FOREX, and certainly wasn’t the upside surprise the Street was looking for. S
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From paidContent.org, July 7, 2008:If you’re a Yahoo shareholder, but you don’t obsessively follow the twists and turns of the Yahoo-Microsoft-Icahn drama the way some of us do, then Yahoo has put out a letter just for you. Basically it’
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Shares of Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc surged more than 22 percent on Thursday on media reports that long-rumored talks with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries might finally lead to a deal.
TheMarker and Globes financial newspapers reported that Israel-based Teva, the world’s biggest maker of generic drugs, was in talks to buy New Jersey-based Barr, marking further consolidation in […]
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Between Belgian brewer InBev’s successful bid for Anheuser-Busch, a 75% stake in the Chrysler Building going to the Abu Dhabi Investment Council, and Donald Trump
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If the government’s goal was to put a temporary floor under financial stocks, the SEC’s move to restrict “naked shorting” of related stocks had its desired effect. …
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