Dollar General Corp. (NYSE: DG) is a stock that we have said over and over is "money" for long-term investors. The one thing that has acted as a continued drag ... Read Full Story »
Discount retailer Dollar General Corp. (NYSE: DG) said this morning that it will sell 30 million shares in a secondary offering and that all the shares on offer are being ... Read Full Story »
Argus Research, an independent equity research firm open since 1934, has issued a series of changes to its model portfolios now, as we are still in the early part of ... Read Full Story »
Toys“R”Us may no longer be a public company, but that does not mean that it is not an important barometer for toy companies. The company was acquired in a deal ... Read Full Story »
Private equity took a bit of a bruising on its image during the presidential election in 2012. This sector of the financial services market was basically portrayed as the modern-day robber ... Read Full Story »
Diamond company Harry Winston Diamond Corp. (NYSE: HWD) has agreed to purchase the Ekati diamond mine from the Canadian subsidiary of BHP Billiton PLC (NYSE: BHP) for $500 million. BHP ... Read Full Story »
SuperValu Inc. (NYSE: SVU) was up nearly 20% last week, largely on buyout speculation. Buyout firm Cerberus Capital Management is the likely frontrunner to take over the third-largest U.S. supermarket ... Read Full Story »
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened flat this morning following a disappointing quarterly report from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) last night (more coverage here) which weighed on Asian tech ... Read Full Story »
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened higher this morning following the report on new jobless claims, which rose by 369,000, less than the expected 375,000 (our coverage here). In ... Read Full Story »
Discount retailer Dollar General Corp. (NYSE: DG) has announced that it will repurchase approximately $250 million of its shares currently held by Buck Holdings L.P. and initiate a secondary offering ... Read Full Story »
Following a months-long auction process, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (NYSE: DD) has agreed to sell its performance coating unit (DPC) to the Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) for ... Read Full Story »
There has been a lot of investment buying of foreclosed and distressed US houses, and one of the questions that always comes up is how an essentially local business can ... Read Full Story »
The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning following European Central Bank president Mario Draghi’s promise to “do whatever it takes to preserve the euro” (our coverage here). ... Read Full Story »
Eurozone officials set final terms for a bailout of Spain's banks. (Reuters) Marissa Mayer will receive as much as $70 million to head Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). (Reuters) Banks hit by the Libor ... Read Full Story »
As of late last week we had many potentially imminent buyouts that could have hit the market. When we were just finishing the report draft on Friday is when the ... Read Full Story »