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What a PG&E Bankruptcy Would Mean

Posted: January 7, 2019 at 11:15 am

On November 8, shares of PG&E Corp. (NYSE: PCG) closed near $49. A week later the closed at just over $17. What happened in between may lead the largest gas ...
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Is Shell About to Spend $8 Billion to Double Its Permian Basin Acreage?

Posted: December 19, 2018 at 9:40 am

According to a Bloomberg News report Tuesday, Royal Dutch Shell PLC (NYSE: RDS-A) is negotiating to buy privately held Endeavor Energy Resources for about $8 billion. If the deal is ...
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What Will Coca-Cola Acquire Next?

Posted: August 31, 2018 at 11:35 am

With its $5 billion acquisition of the Costa coffee shop chain, Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) once more has shown its commitment to expanding its footprint and the diversity of its ...
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6 Most Important Things in Business Today

Posted: August 10, 2018 at 5:17 am

The housing market has started to falter. According to MarketWatch: The housing market hit a sudden and “significant” slowdown in the past few weeks that could continue in coming months, ...
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Walmart Wants to Be Last Man Into the Streaming Media Business?

Posted: July 19, 2018 at 6:40 am

Several media outlets tried to get Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) management to confirm that the company will go into the streaming media business. Presumably, the move would be to better ...
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How Much Groupon Might Actually Fetch in a Buyout

Posted: July 9, 2018 at 3:25 pm

Shares of Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) have popped handily on Monday on word that the "daily deals" website has been contacting other companies to drum up interest in acquiring the ...
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Will Verizon Sell Oath to Tim Armstrong?

Posted: July 6, 2018 at 8:00 am

A recent report at The Information indicates that Oath CEO Tim Armstrong is considering buying the company out of Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ). Armstrong's interest includes both the Yahoo ...
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What GameStop Might Actually Fetch in a Buyout

Posted: June 19, 2018 at 10:00 am

If one company has been a victim of the change in retail and in the selling of video games, GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) would certainly be a prime example. GameStop's ...
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With Sprint, T-Mobile Gets Poorly Run Company With Poor Service (Update)

Posted: April 28, 2018 at 8:40 am

Update: The deal closes with Sprint valued at $26 billion, and T-Mobile at $55 million. Together, the new entity will have about as many wireless customers as AT&T and Verizon ...
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New Sprint/T-Mobile M&A Talks Rekindle Interest in Telecom Sector

Posted: April 10, 2018 at 1:25 pm

As if there was not enough going on in the world, now investors and traders get to deal with the possibility that an on-again-off-again merger may be coming back to ...
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Is Wynn a Good Deal for MGM Resorts?

Posted: April 6, 2018 at 11:05 am

Now that founder and CEO Steve Wynn of Wynn Resorts Ltd. (NASDAQ: WYNN) has sold all his stock in the company, MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) may be interested in ...
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Why Walmart Might Want to Acquire Humana

Posted: March 30, 2018 at 9:10 am

Late Thursday, reports began to trickle in that retail behemoth Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) was in preliminary negotiations to acquire health insurer Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM). Humana's market cap of ...
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Does a Target, Kroger Merger Make Sense?

Posted: March 23, 2018 at 10:15 am

In an exclusive report published Friday morning, Fast Company cited people familiar with the matter who said that Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) and Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) are discussing a ...
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When Broadcom, Qualcomm, NXP, Intel and AMD Are All in the Same Rumor Mill at Once

Posted: March 16, 2018 at 10:35 am

The world of semiconductor mergers was trying to move from already large up to massive. Now it seems like there may be at least some more rational exuberance in the ...
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Xerox May Be Taken Out of Its Misery

Posted: January 22, 2018 at 6:50 am

Xerox Corp. (NYSE: XRX) has been in deep trouble for years. It did not make the train traveling toward the digital storage and sharing of documents and corporate data. According ...
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