Liberty Lane Acquisition Corp. was going to be the first real special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC or blank check company, from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS). The key word in…
Douglas A. McIntyre Solar energy may be the wave of energy’s future, but companies like Google (GOOG) and Chevron (CVX) may best start-ups in getting to the benefits. A number of large American companies with…
Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) has made a conditional offer to Expro International, a British oil field services company, to acquire the company for 1.7 billion pounds (about $3.36 billion). What is interesting is…
UBS (UBS) had to raise money. The sins of its subprime addiction have come back to haunt it. US bank shareholders should shudder when they look at the pricing that the Swiss…
According to Reuters, Microsoft (MSFT) is proposing to buy Yahoo!’s (YHOO) search business. Reuters writes that Barclays (BCS) is looking at a possible bid for Lehman (LEH). Reuters reports that customer satisfaction…
As each day passes, a larger and larger portion of the analyst community turns on banks and brokerages like a pack of wild dogs. The majority report now seems to be that…
Circuit City Stores, Inc. (NYSE: CC) has finally capitulated. There are two separate announcements this morning, but in reality it is all part of the same issue. This will allow the company…
Hank Greenberg, former chief of AIG (AIG), still walks the avenues of Wall St. at night, plotting how to get his old job back. He has been in a series of disputes…
El Paso Corporation (NYSE:EP) has reported earnings of $0.29 EPS on net income of $219 million and revenue of $1.269 billion for the first quarter of 2008. Analysts were expecting $0.30 EPS…
Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) has come out and updated its "oil super-spike" prices today. In fact, it ponders whether or not the super-spike end game has begun. We covered part of this…
Douglas A. McIntyre UBS (UBS) telegraphed all ships in the known world as it sank into the Atlantic like the Titanic. The big bank will fire 5,500 poor souls and sell $15 billion of its…
Late word is that the hedge fund business that Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit sold to the bank for $800 million has lost a huge amount of its value. All of the…
When we saw the Mars acquisition of William Wrigley Jr. Co. (NYSE: WWY) in perhaps the largest food merger, the first thing that came to mind besides "what a premium" was "What…
The FBI is looking into why the subprime market fell apart. As a matter of fact, it wants those who are guilty to turn themselves in so they do not have to…
"So, we beat on, boats against the future, born back ceaselessly into the past"–F Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby" John Thain, former co-president of Goldman Sachs (GS) and CEO of The New…
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