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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Wall Street Rumors - June 11, 2008	Daily rumors covering the global markets. Subscribe to the update feed here. ABC Likely to Reshape ‘World News’ Webcast Walt Disney Co.’s (NYSE:DIS) ABC News is close to scrapping the current format of its daily “World News” Webcast, an online version of the evening news anchored by Charles Gibson, which the network trumpeted as a major step into its digital future when it launched two years ago. XTO Strikes $4.19 Billion Hunt Deal Oil and natural-gas producer XTO ...	June 11, 2008
Willis brokers a $2.1 billion deal for Hilb	Filed under: Deals, Aon Corp (AOC)Willis Group Holdings (NYSE: WSH), the third largest insurance broker, is about to become much bigger. Yes, the company has announced a $2.1 billion acquisition of Hilb Rogal & Hobbs (NYSE: HRH). The transaction is half cash and half stock. Although, Willis plans a $1 billion buyback to sop up the shares. Based on the financials, the deal looks smart. Willis plans to realize annualized synergies of about $140 million by 2012. What's more, the transaction sh...	June 09, 2008
Analyst initiations: Google, Boyd Gaming, Microsoft	Filed under: Analyst reports, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Aon Corp (AOC), Analyst initiationsMOST NOTEWORTHY: Google, Boyd Gaming and Microsoft were today's noteworthy initiations: Kaufman Bros. believes Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has "only begun to scratch the surface" of its local market opportunity. Shares were assumed with a Buy rating and $680 target. Banc of America believes Boyd Gaming (NYSE: BYD) will face financing challenges with its Echelon resort, and initiated shares ...	May 07, 2008
ACE buys CICA. What About The Investment Portfolio?	Ace Limited (ACE) announced that it will be buying Combined Insurance Company of America (CICA) from AON Corporation (AOC)for $2.3 billion in cash. closing expected in Q2 of 08. AON also takes a parting gift of a $325 million dollar dividend. A.M. Best also commented on the transaction several hours later essentially stating "ACE’s financial strength (FSR), issuer credit (ICR) and debt ratings were affirmed on November 26, 2007. The ratings are unchanged by the proposed transaction."In compari...	December 17, 2007
Big List of Private Equity Targets in Financial Services	There is a recent boutique research report from earlier in the week showing a list of potential private equity targets from a specialty brokerage firm that I was very positive on from even before its IPO: Keefe Bruyette & Woods (KBW). The truth is that this company is probably only behind Goldman Sachs (GS) as far as its knowledge of what is going on in the North American financial services sector, and the argument is that KBW is considered the number one firm as far as independent cov...	May 31, 2007
Stop Trading	A growth story that Jim is "afraid to bet against" is utilities. The Dow Utility index is up 150% over the last four years. February we saw a buyout in TXU (TXU) that "changed the equation. Exelon (EXC) and Dominion (D) were called as strong players in an undervalued group.There are plenty of candidates for the private equity takeout boom. "Natural targets" were named as Total System (TSS) with parent Synovus (SNV), along with insurers Aon (AOC) and Marsh McLennan (MMC). Some "headless ho...	May 30, 2007

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