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Biotech Daily: Prana Still Worth Speculative Look (PRAN)

Posted: March 25, 2011 at 9:37 am

Prana Biotechnology Ltd. (NASDAQ: PRAN) may have left shareholders feeling like they got the wool pulled over their eyes this week.  The company's ADRs surged on reports that an article ...
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M&A Hits $2.2 Trillion As 2011 Looms

Posted: December 17, 2010 at 5:51 am

Data from Reuters shows that global M&A activity rose to $2.2 trillion in 2010. The 2010 improvement was the first since 2007.  Most comments about the news said that 2011 ...
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Third Wave SPAC IPO Dies Before Launch

Posted: February 10, 2009 at 5:12 pm

Third Wave Acquisition Corp. has just filed with the SEC to withdraw it proposed inital public offering.  You can probably guess why: In light of current market conditions. (more…) ...
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Sallie Mae Knows Her Merger Is Toast (SLM, JPM, BAC)

Posted: September 26, 2007 at 2:59 pm

SLM Corp. (NYSE:SLM), or Sallie Mae, has announced that it has been informed by a representative of the buyer group led by J. C. Flowers, Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) and ...
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Green Private Equity Fund, With a Hockey Twist

Posted: September 25, 2007 at 8:24 am

Michael Richter, former All-Star goalie for the New York Rangers, has announced the formation of Environmental Capital Partners, LLC as a private equity firm focused exclusively on the environmental industry.  ...
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Home Depot Supply Unit Sale Being Restructured & Share Tender Modified Lower (HD)

Posted: August 9, 2007 at 7:55 am

Home Depot (NYSE:HD) broke the news this morning that it is in discussions with private equity firms Bain Capital, Caylyle, and with Clayton Dubilier & Rice over restructuring its previously ...
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Blackstone’s $21.7 Billion Fund Now Closed (BX)

Posted: August 8, 2007 at 8:38 am

If private equity is really dead, then why did a $21.7 Billion private equity fund just get closed upon.  The Blackstone Group (NYSE:BX) has sent out notice that today was ...
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Analysts To Blackstone’s Rescue (BX)

Posted: August 1, 2007 at 8:06 am

Blackstone Group, L.P. is seeing its shares, well units, trading up almost 2% pre-market on a day when DJIA futures have traded down over 100 points.  The catalyst was the ...
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Analysts Close To Assigning Blackstone Ratings (BX)

Posted: July 31, 2007 at 4:43 pm

If you have followed the Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE:BX) units on a post-IPO basis, then you will know it is almost impossible to cover without noting how the listed unit ...
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Circuit City: What Is the Implied Floor For Shareholders?

Posted: April 4, 2007 at 2:00 pm

After Circuit City (CC-NYSE) disappointed the street with earnings (again), this one started to get interesting.  Back on December 19, 2006 we added this one to a "watch list" for ...
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