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money.cnn.com
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Dec 11, 2008
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BCE
A deal that seemed to have nine lives - the $51 billion sale of Canada's largest telephone company, the largest leveraged buyout ever proposed - finally died early Thursday.
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fool.com
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Dec 11, 2008
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COF
Seven companies with the urge to merge; which deals will work out?
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247wallst.com
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Dec 08, 2008
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RODM, COWN
If you have been waiting for the smaller brokerage firms in the Tier-2 and Tier-3 categories to start merging, it looks like the first shot in the...
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marketwatch.com
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Nov 26, 2008
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C, BCE
Vikram Pandit finally got some good news. KPMG shelved the takeover of BCE Inc. after ruling it wouldn't be able to provide a solvency opinion, a requirement for regulatory approval.
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247wallst.com
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Nov 26, 2008
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NRG, EXC
It took NRG Energy (NYSE:NRG) almost two weeks to figure out that shareholders
should rejectthe exchange offer from Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC). That's odd because NRG had
already rejectedthe same offer before Exelon decided to go directly to shareholders....
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dividendgrowthinvestor.com
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Nov 26, 2008
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ROH, DOW, CEG
With the stock market declines that hedge fund and mutual fund redemptions as well as the deleveraging on Wall Street have caused, investors are definitely wondering whether they would ever be able to reach their financial goals. The increasing volatility of the markets has certain stocks trading at...
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moneymorning.com
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Nov 26, 2008
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BHP, RTP
By Mike Caggeso
Associate Editor
Money Morning
With commodity prices falling and the global economic outlook uncertain, Melbourne-based mining titan BHP Billiton (BHP) pulled the plug on...
Money Morning is here to help investors profit handsomely on this seismic shift in the global ec...
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Bloomberg
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Nov 26, 2008
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BHP, RTP
Rio Tinto's $5 Billion debt may be cut by Moody's; Report and analysis by Heidi Couch of Bloomberg News
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247wallst.com
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Nov 21, 2008
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NYT, NWS
The New York Times Company (NYT) announced that it was cutting its dividend by 74% to $.06. That came after its revealed that its October advertising revenue fell over 16%. Internet sales were only up in the single digits. The firm's New England newspapers, including The Boston Globe. lost over 20%...
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alleyinsider.com
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Nov 20, 2008
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YHOO, TWX
Huge M&A deals like Yahoo-AOL have enough challenges without both sides not really wanting to do them. And are Jerry and the board seriously going to make this decision without consulting Yahoo's new CEO?
We hope Yahoo and Time Warner execs are having fun hanging out together. Wake us up when it...
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clusterstock.alleyinsider.com
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Nov 20, 2008
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MER, BAC
While Bank of America convinced the overwhelming majority of Merrill Lynch brokers to stay on board after the two firms merge, many others at Merrill are in a very grim mood. We ha drinks with a Merrill employee last night who described working at the firm as being akin to finding yourself on death...
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clusterstock.alleyinsider.com
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Nov 20, 2008
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GM
The heads of the Big Three left Washington, DC empty handed, and the prevailing mood is that they failed to win over enough converts to their side. Bankruptcy at GM is now looking like a likely possibility, and the same might be said for the other two, only a later down the road.
It seems Chrysler i...
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money.cnn.com
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Nov 19, 2008
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SNE
Ty Roberts, CTO OF Gracenote, recently took his 8-year-old son to a Jonas Brothers concert. A sea of screaming teens used their cell phones to take pictures and record videos of the hit Disney Channel band.
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Bloomberg
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Nov 17, 2008
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GNW
Genworth Financial in Talks to Buy Minnesota-Based InterBank
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From Alley Insider: Global economic collapse: Great news for Microsoft's Internet business.
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clusterstock.alleyinsider.com
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Nov 14, 2008
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HIG
Here's a lesson on how to achieve financial health in this environment:
Hartford Financial (HIG) is spending $10 million to buy Federal Trust Bank, a piddly little institution based in Sanford, FL.
By acquiring the bank and applying with the Office of Thrift Supervision to become a Savings & L...
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Another coup for a Wilbur Ross investment. The WSJ ReportsBond insurer Assured Guaranty Ltd.(AGO) on Friday struck a $722 million deal to acquire rival Financial Securities Assurance Holdings from French-Belgian lender Dexia.Dexia, which has struggled amid the credit crunch, will receive $361 mil...
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bloggingstocks.com
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Nov 13, 2008
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EBAY, MSFT
Filed under: International markets, Deals, Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), eBay (EBAY), Amazon.com (AMZN), Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), American Express (AXP), Bank of America (BAC), Merrill Lynch (MER), MasterCard Inc'A' (MA), Countrywide Financi...
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