ThinkstockMichael Dell and the Dell Buyout Private equity firm Silver Lake Partner’s rush to fund a buyout of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has accelerated. And investors begin to ask if founder Michael…
courtesy of YouTubeThe head of Rio Tinto PLC (NYSE: RIO) will leave after the company took a $14 billion write-down. (Reuters) The FAA grounds the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) Dreamliner after it…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning with the Nasdaq Composite slightly higher, while the DJIA and the S&P 500 were lower. Earnings from several U.S. financial institutions were due today and…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsMany stocks are on the move this Wednesday morning and we are covering some of the key winners and losers for our readers. Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) is…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen so far this Wednesday from Wall St. research calls. Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A. (NYSE: BUD) cut to Reduce at Nomura.…
courtesy Dell Inc.The private equity buyout of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), about which investors were skeptical just two days ago, could happen soon. Rumors in the press suggest that the primary PE…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockAlibaba Prepares IPO Alibaba, the preeminent e-commerce company in China, apparently has decided to have an initial public offering to raise as much as $4 billion. The decision probably is unrelated to the…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.The World Bank cuts its outlook for 2013. (Reuters) Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) releases a search feature to be used among members, and Wall St. is unimpressed, sending shares…
courtesy of DellOK, so the buyout of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) may not be as much hype as the market was originally thinking. Buying a company for more than $20 billion is no…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following an announcement from Germany that its economy had contracted by 0.5% in the fourth quarter (more coverage here). U.S. data was released on producer…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen so far this Tuesday. There is a larger concentration around biotech and emerging pharma this morning, but that is…
thinkstockThe Japanese government says the future image of the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 is at risk as the U.S. government probes problems with the plane. (Reuters) Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) may…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite both getting pushed lower on a report that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has cut iPhone component orders…
ThinkstockDell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has seen its shares rise handily on Monday on news (rumors really) that the company might be in talks with private equity firms in a possible go-private transaction. All…
ThinkstockDell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) may have found a way out of its woes as a public company. If you remember all of the private equity and leveraged buyout talks from the past,…
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