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Media Digest (1/25/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has another blow-out quarter driven by iPhone sales. (Reuters) Japan has its first trade deficit since 1980. (Reuters) Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) posts weak earnings on a revenue ...
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Carlyle Remains On Track for 2012 IPO (CG, BX, KKR, ACAS, OZM, FIG, PSP)

The Carlyle Group L.P. is still planning to be one of the top private equity initial public offerings of 2012.  We even named it as one of the Top 17 ...
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Carlyle IPO Filing: Making the Billions Even More Liquid

Another private equity giant is set to come public in an initial public offering.  The Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX), Apollo Global Management, LLC (NYSE: APO), Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. ...
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The 24/7 Wall St. Top 10 Analyst Calls of the Week (ALU, BIDU, C, FIG, GOOG, LULU, RENN, SHLD, SPRD, WDC)

Each morning we cover about fifteen top analyst calls for investors and traders to consider.  Some calls offer great insight, and some are quite literally career-killing flops.  At the end ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ACN, CATO, FVE, FIG, HCBK, MET, SHLD, SINA, SPRD, VIV, THI)

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) Reiterated Buy and Raised target at ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ARUN, CMI, DMND, ENZN, FCEL, FIG, HLF, KFT, MYGN, NTAP, OIS, PMTC, PTR, PETD, SWFT)

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN) Started as Buy at UBS. ...
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IPO Watch: Day Two… Apollo Brings Some Concern (APO, KKR, BX, FIG)

Apollo Global Management LLC (NYSE: APO) is looking like a bit of a dud of an IPO.  Some will think that this could temper some of the excitement around private equity ...
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IPO Rethink: Apollo (and a private equity curse?) (BX, KKR, FIG)

The world of private equity is not what it once was, but the remaining private equity leaders that survived out there do now seem to be stronger if they survived.  ...
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AIG Hides Asset Sale Terms in AGF-Fortress Deal (AIG, FIG)

American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is still one of the most hated companies, but not so by private equity buyers looking to see what meat can picked off of ...
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IPO Market Showing Concern (MG, TLCR, BSBR, EM, CLNY, RA, FIG, ARI, VITC, ECHO, CPC, GAME, SNDA, CYOU, SOHU, CPIX, OMER, BX)

It was just in August that practically every single initial public offering was trading above its IPO price.  The market had rallied significantly, and still rallied after that to just ...
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RailAmerica Comes Public, Again (RA, FIG)

Private equity firms keep exiting their old buyouts when they can.  This morning we have an initial public offering from RailAmerica, Inc. (NYSE: RA) for some 22,000,000 shares of common ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (CHK, DD, FIG, FITB, KIND, MMC, MINI, STI, UNTD, VCLK)

These are the top ten pre-market analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street research this Thursday morning: Chesapeake Energy (CHK) Cut to Hold at Argus. DuPont (DD) Raised to ...
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New Wave of Secondary Offerings (AWR, ENR, FIG, PL, SMTB, WAL)

We are seeing yet another wave of secondary offerings that have priced between yesterday's close and this morning. The offerings we have seen come to more than $1 billion and ...
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Downgrading Hedgies, Private Equity & Financials (BX, FIG, GLG, IVZ, JNS, OZM, STD, TROW)

There is an interesting trend where Barclays has essentially cut its rankings on hedge fund and private equity operators. Here are the calls, plus a call elsewhere on a bank: ...
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Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (RE, FIG, PRE, SGEN, TROW, AUY, NT, RICK, RDS.A, X)

These are ten of the top analyst upgrades and downgrades we have seen this Monday morning with about 2 hours to the the open:Everest Re (RE) to Outperform at Wachovia.Fortress ...
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