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The 52-Week Low Club (SLM)(WM)

Posted: December 12, 2007 at 4:13 pm

SLM (SLM) Buy-out is dead and company revises numbers down for 2008. Down to $27.63 from 52-week high of $58.Office Depot (ODP) Soft guidance. Falls to $14.68 from 52-week high ...
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Media Digest 10/15/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: October 15, 2007 at 3:15 am

According to Reuters, Citigroup (C) and other large banksare planning to create a roughly $80 billion fund to buy ailing mortgage securities and other assets.Reuters writes that Medtronic (MDT) is ...
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Results In Court Look Good For Sallie Mae (SLM)

Posted: October 10, 2007 at 6:37 am

"Judges traditionally have been skeptical of buyers' efforts to walk away from acquisitions by arguing that economic or regulatory conditions have changed so much that deals should be terminated, several ...
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More Private Equity Deals, Another Banking Fiasco

Posted: October 10, 2007 at 5:49 am

There are still a lot of private equity deals to be closed. They were announced before the current credit disaster. And, many of them are not going to get broken ...
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Sallie Mae (SLM): A Hint Of Lawsuits In The Autumn Air

Posted: October 9, 2007 at 5:07 am

It did not take Sallie Mae (SLM) long to sue the private equity firms that planned to buy it, and the banks that were to fund the deal. The lead ...
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Media Digest 10/9/2007 Reuters, WSJ. NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: October 9, 2007 at 3:19 am

According to Reuters, Sallie Mae (SLM) sued the buyers who walked away from a deal to buy the company.Reuters writes that Yahoo! (YHOO) will buy 10% of Alibaba, the Chinese ...
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Will The News From Bank Of America And JP Morgan Be Bad?

Posted: October 8, 2007 at 5:04 am

The FT ran a piece in which research firm Sanford Bernstein is quoted as saying that loses at Bank of American (BAC) and JP Morgan (JPM) will be just as ...
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Big Sallie Mae (SLM) Shareholders Willing To Fight For Buy-Out

Posted: October 5, 2007 at 5:55 am

When JC Flowers waked away from its $60 bid for Sallie Mae (SLM) and then returned with a lower bid, Wall St. questioned whether the company's board had any recourse. ...
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Medai Digest 10/3/2007

Posted: October 3, 2007 at 3:15 am

According to Reuters, Verizon (VZ) is launching three new phones for the holidays, One will compete directly with the Apple (AAPL) iPhone.Reuters writes that Microsoft (MSFT) is releasing a new ...
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Media Digest 9/27/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: September 27, 2007 at 3:10 am

According to Retuers, BA (BAB) ordered $8.2 billion in planes from Airbus and Boeing (BA) .Reuters writes that Marriott (MAR) plans to quadruple its hotels in China.Reuters reports that first ...
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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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Which Private Equity Deal Fails Next: Tribune, Acxiom, Penn Gaming?

Posted: September 23, 2007 at 2:26 pm

Now that Goldman Sachs (GS) and KKR have walked away from Harman (HAR), the question is which private equity deal will fail next.Here is a short list of the deals ...
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Deal For Sallie Mae Begins To Unravel

Posted: September 20, 2007 at 5:03 am

Private equity firms J. C. Flowers & Company and Friedman Fleischer & Lowe were going to buy Sallie Mae, the student loan organization, for $25 billion. When credit problems started ...
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Media Digest 9/20/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: September 20, 2007 at 2:52 am

According to Reuters, Nasdaq (NDAQ) and Borse Dubai will team up and buy the Swedish OMX. Reuters writes that Sony (SNE) will delay the launch of its Home online community ...
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Merger Arb Spreads Remain (TXU, TRB,SLM, CEN)

Posted: August 20, 2007 at 1:16 pm

There are over 150 pending mergers out there that have not yet closed.  After last week's Fed actions, there are still some deals out there that are perceived to be ...
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