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Icahn Tries To Replace Four Chesapeake Directors

Posted: May 25, 2012 at 4:39 pm

Carl Icahn has used the mess at Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) to try to take four board seats. Chesapeake's shares have cratered because of trouble involving the side-by-side investments of ...
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Short Sellers Hit Internet Stocks

Posted: May 25, 2012 at 6:17 am

For the two weeks that ended on May 15, short sellers hit old and new Internet site companies alike. Among firms that had IPOs recently, the short interest in Zynga (NASDAQ: ...
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Chesapeake Plans to Shed More Assets

Posted: May 24, 2012 at 2:27 pm

Natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) has reportedly struck a deal to sell about 504,000 net acres of leasehold in the northern part of the Denver-Julesburg (DJ) basin, ...
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Media Digest (5/24/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 24, 2012 at 6:20 am

Many members of the EU want Greece to remain a member but have begun to prepare for its departure. (Reuters) Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) posts better-than-expected earnings and says it will ...
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CalSTRS: The Dogs Turn on Walmart

Posted: May 23, 2012 at 6:33 am

The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), by many measures the second largest pension in the United States, has taken the advice of and has joined proxy advisory firms ISS and Glass ...
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Coal, Natural Gas Reaching Price Parity (XOM, CHK, EOG, CNX, BTU, ANR, ACI)

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 8:58 am

Natural gas prices have been rising, getting to around $2.75/thousand cubic feet last week before falling back a little to around $2.69. At this level, coal once again enters the ...
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Insider Buy at Continental Resources Less Than Meets the Eye

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 11:35 am

When a CEO lays out good money to purchase shares of his company at market prices, that’s usually a positive signal to shareholders. Such is the case with Continental Resources ...
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Chesapeake Debt Downgraded at Fitch

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 7:02 am

Late last Friday, credit rating firm Fitch Ratings downgraded the already low corporate credit rating of Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) from ‘BB’ to ‘BB-’. The firm also lowered its ...
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Media Digest (5/21/2012) Reuters, WSJ, Financial Times

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 6:31 am

Alibaba buys back a 20% share held by Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) for a combination of cash and preferred shares worth $7.1 billion. (Reuters) The heads of Samsung and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) ...
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Media Digest (5/18/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 18, 2012 at 6:24 am

G8 leaders will seek solutions to the EU crisis. (Reuters) The Facebook IPO, priced at $38, will raise $16 billion. (Reuters) A new poll shows Greeks favor pro-bailout leaders who ...
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S&P Drops Chesapeake’s Credit Rating

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 10:01 am

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s this morning lowered the corporate credit rating of Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) from ‘BB’ to ‘BB-’, and put the company on negative credit watch. ...
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As Board After Board Fails, Governance Takes a Beating

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 6:26 am

Many Americans, and some politicians, have attacked the boards of major U.S. corporations for paying their CEOs too much, not holding management to tough earnings goals and lining their own ...
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Media Digest (5/15/2012) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 6:25 am

The president of Greece cannot create a coalition government. (Reuters) Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Panasonic may force a partnership to build OLED TVs. (Reuters) Trouble at Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) ...
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Media Digest (5/14/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 6:16 am

Several senior JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) executives will leave the bank in the wake of its $2 billion trading loss. (Reuters) Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) ex-CEO Scott Thompson has thyroid cancer. (WSJ) ...
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As Trouble Deepens, Chesapeake Gets $3 Billion Loan

Posted: May 12, 2012 at 9:27 am

Its reputation, and Wall St.'s perception of its future in tatters, Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) secured a much need loan to prop up its short term balance sheet prospects. The ...
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