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 IPOs to…
Obama nominates Jeremy Stein and Jerome Powell to take seats at the Federal Reserve. (Reuters) New York Times (NYSE: NYT) sells its regional media group for $143 million. (Reuters) The U.S. Treasury…
Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK) has the right to delay the announcement of certain events under SEC regulations. It did so when it disclosed today that two of its board members resigned on…
Douglas A. McIntyre US based oil and gas producer Quicksilver Resources Inc. (NYSE: KWK) has formed a partnership with investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (NYSE: KKR) to further the development of Quicksilver’s Horn…
If you have been watching the share prices of the solar stocks, you will understand the joke (and perhaps not even laugh) that investing in these has turned many 401-K retirement funds…
AT&T (NYSE: T) gives up on its effort to buy T-Mobile. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) wins a patent case over HTC in the smartphone wars. (Reuters) Olympus will sell shares to Sony…
Updated throughout the day Itochu may join KKR (NYSE: KKR) in Samson Investment bid of $7 billion (Reuters Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) will face regulator action if efforts to bolster its…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) posts mediocre earnings but says it hopes to steady its businesses over the balance of the year. (Reuters) Store chains will have to offer large discounts to lure shoppers.…
99 Cents Only Stores (NYSE: NDN) was supposed to be acquired for somewhere between $22.00 and $24.00 per share according to reports in mid-September. The company was supposed to have interest from Apollo…
Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Cut to Underperform at…
If there is one single obvious trend you need to burn into your brain regarding retail it is this: DOLLAR STORES!!! After that it is discount stores. Even though dollar stores are…
Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) is seeing its stock trade a bit soft this morning on news that private equity backers are selling 25 million shares of common shares at a price…
Yahoo.comNow that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) has fired CEO Carol Bartz about as gracelessly as it could and set out on a strategic review of its business under interim CEO Tim Morse,…
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. (NYSE: KKR),…
Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) is packing a punch after earnings this morning after beating earnings and raising guidance. The dollar store, or actually ‘under $10 and under $5 store’ said that…
