Mitt Romney left private equity firm Bain Capital nearly a decade ago. But if the former Massachusetts Gov. is chosen as McCain’s running mate it could push the industry back into the public spotlight anyway. Romney left the firm in 1999 to take over the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, but he built […]
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Early stock-market momentum faded Tuesday as falling oil prices failed to inspire sustained buying and traders seemingly focused on the negative implications of lower commodity prices. …
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Richard Bove is really hammering home a point about Lehman Brothers: The investment bank has big problems that it better deal with it soon.
The Ladenburg Thalmann analyst put out a new research note — the second such note in a week –saying Lehman’s management will have to address its issues rather than just “toughing it […]
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Back in 2004, Valley venture capitalists David Helfrich and Terry Garnett embarked on a new way to invest in high tech. They called it “venture buyout” and the idea was the carve out multi-million niches of bloated, over-consolidated corporate c
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After the pummeling U.S. banks have been taking from the credit crunch, you’d think British bankers would try to learn from the mistakes of their U.S. counterparts. Not so, writes the New York Times’ DealBook. A majority claim they have made no changes to their strategy, according to a survey to come out next week. […]
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It hasn’t been a great year for software stocks, and more troubling the sexy upstarts like Salesforce.com, Netsuite and VMWare seem to be hurting worse than incumbents like
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Fannie Mae’s executive shake-up seemed to help build a floor under the tumbling mortgage finance company, with debate still raging about whether the Treasury will take it over. Bloomberg’s report yesterday that Pimco, the manager of the world’s biggest bond fund, was building funds to buy as much as $5 billion in mortgage-backed debt is […]
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