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Alcan (AL): Rio Tinto (RTP) By A Nose
Alcan (AL) had decided some weeks ago that it did not want to be taken over by Alcoa (AA) and made that clear to shareholders. But, the Canadian metals company had been…
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Private Equity Moves To Metals
Usually private equity firms need to do tremendous amounts of work to identify targets. But, in the metals business, the industry may be doing it for them. The M&A dance now includes,…
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Media Digest 7/11/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, private equity firms are going to start to target big miners like Alcoa (AA). Reuters writes that Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB added 90,000 subscribers over the last quarter. Reuters writes…
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Pre-Market Stock News (July 10, 2007)
(AA) Alcoa $0.81 EPS vs $0.81e; will likely have to sweeten Alcan bid before getting any approval from Alcan.(BOT) CBOT holders approve the CME merger offer.(CACS) Carrier Access lowered guidance.(CAKE) Cheesecake Factory…
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Media Digest 7/10/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, the CME (CME) purchase of the CBOT (CBOT) was approved by shareholders. Reuters writes that BHP Billiton (BHP) is looking for a partner to make a bid for Alcoa…
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Alcoa (AA) Misses A Bit, The M&A Dance Continues
Alcoa (AA) is up 60% from its 52-week low, and rallied strongly into today’s close, moving up another 2%. But Alcoa announced second quarter 2007 income from continuing operations of $716 million,…
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Top 10 Stock Issues Review of This Week (July 6, 2007)
Stock Tickers: CME, BOT, DFS, RIMM, AAPL, AA, RTP, AL, AMD, MOT, ALU, MPEL, GM, TM, BIDU, INTC, DELL, MSFT If the CME (CME) and CBOT (BOT) doesn’t get approved next week,…
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Rio Tinto (RTP) Chases Alcan (AL)
Rio Tinto (RTP) has hired Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank to help it make a run at Alcan (AL). Alcan’s aluminum rival Alcoa (AA) has been trying to set up a merger…
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Top 10 Equity Events Next Week (July 9-13, 2007)
Stock Tickers: GE, AA, INFY, YUM, DNA, MAR, BOT, CME Next week is the official launch of earnings season, although as you will tell even though the stocks are important there are…
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Media Digest 7/5/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, Australia Australian fund manager Caledonia said it would vote against Chicago Merch’s (CME) proposal to buy CBOT (CBOT) The fund own over 6% off the exchange. Reuters writes that…
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Media Digest 7/4/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, Blackstone (BX) bought Hilton Hotels (HLT) for $20 billion plus debt. Reuters writes that private equity firm Apollo offered $6 billion for Huntsman. Reuters reports that car sales in…
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Media Digest 7/4/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, Blackstone (BX) bought Hilton Hotels (HLT) for $20 billion plus debt. Reuters writes that private equity firm Apollo offered $6 billion for Huntsman. Reuters reports that car sales in…
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Short Sellers Attack Restructure & Re-Org Stocks (June 2007)
Stock Tickers: TYC, MS, F, CY, SPWR, TRB, KFT, MO, HB, ASD, EMC, DJ, AA, WY It is always interesting to see how short sellers treat shares of stocks that are undergoing…
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DJIA Components Short Interest Mixed (June 2007)
Stock Tickers: AA, AIG, AXP, BA, C, CAT, DD, DIS, GE, GM, HD, HON, HPQ, IBK, JNJ, JPM, KO, MCD, MMM, MRK, MO, MRK, PFE, PG, T, UTX, VZ, WMT, XOM As…
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Cramer Reiterates Alcoa Won’t Be On Its Own
On today’s STOP TRADING segment, Cramer said that the Bear Stearns call on FedEx (FDX) is a gutsy call ahead of the quarter. On Wendy’s (WEN) Cramer said now is not the…