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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
BCE: Citigroup Doesn’t Want to Talk About It, Okay?	BCE: Citigroup Doesnt Want to Talk About It, Okay? Earlier this month, Citigroup and several other banks agreed to fund the $52 billion buyout of BCE Inc., the parent of Bell Canada. The agreement was specifically designed so that the banks would have until the end of the year to sell the debt. But Wall Street analysts can’t wait that long for a straight answer on how the financing commitment is affecting Citigroup’s business. iStockphoto On Citigroup’s earnings con...	July 18, 2008
Winners & Losers From the Week That Was	Rohm & Haas shareholders: They easily rank as the biggest winners this week. Amid all the dismal news, Dow Chemical offered up this gift to Rohm shareholders–a $15.3 billion, all-cash deal for the specialty chemicals maker. Not only did that mark a 74% premium over where Rohm’s shares closed the day before, it was a 24% premium to the stock’s record high. Carlos Brito: In the month-long fight for Anheuser-Busch, the InBev chief proved himself an expert deal maker. He played...	July 11, 2008
Afternoon Reading: Buffett and Buying ‘When Fear Is at Its Peak’	What’s in your wallet? The financial markets continue to sputter. Every time they right themselves, they hit another rough patch, hammering private equity and providing corporate buyers with plenty of headaches, too. So what is company that wants to pull the trigger on a deal to do? Get Warren Buffett on the phone, of course. During the tightest lending conditions in more than a generation, Buffett is providing the financing to get to deals done. Take Dow Chemical’s all-cash, $15.3 ...	July 10, 2008
96th Edition of the Festival of Stocks	Welcome to the July 7th edition of the Festival of Stocks. The Festival of Stocks is a blog carnival dedicated to highlighting bloggers best posts on stock market related topics. Fat Pitch Financials is the actual birth place of this online weekly event, so it is always a special occassion when I get the chance to host this event. If you aren’t already familiar with my blog, Fat Pitch Financials, it is a value investing blog with a focus on wide moat companies selling at substantial discou...	July 07, 2008
Google (GOOG) names former Bell Canada exec as new CFO	Filed under: Management, Google (GOOG)Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), after months of searching for a new Chief Financial Officer, has just named a new one as of this week. Bell Canada (NYSE: BCE)'s Patrick Pichette will take over for the retiring George Reyes. Reyes, who presided over Google's IPO back in 2004 and was very adept at telling the investor community only what Google wanted the world to know, will be an interesting person to replace indeed.Pichette will begin with Google on August 1. H...	June 27, 2008
Google Scoops BCE	Google (GOOG) finally got around to hiring a new CFO. They scooped BCE (BCE) Canada’s largest telco and hired Patrick Pichette. BCE is just in the final throes of going private and the Google thing sounded better. Cannot say I blame the guy. Everyone has been focused on the Google, Yahoo Microsoft triangle. Then Google brings in a Telco guy. If they had brought in an American there would have been suspicions. But the Canadian knows enough about the industry and is not in anyone else’s cam...	June 26, 2008
Penn National: The Nail-Biting Continues	And lo, it was revealed that there would be Four Horsemen of the Leveraged Buyout Apocalypse: Clear Channel Communications, BCE, Huntsman and Penn National Gaming. And it was bad. With BCE in flux and Huntsman in litigation, it is no wonder investors–particularly merger arbitragers, who bet on deals closing–are panicking about Penn National, whose stock has fallen to new lows for the year. Penn National’s board is expected to meet this week, and investors are on tenterhooks to...	June 24, 2008
Afternoon Reading: Will Banks Show BCE the Money?	Will the buyout of BCE close at $42.75 a share or won’t it? There seems to be a divergence of opinion. According to the Financial Times, the banks financing the deal–a group that includes Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and Toronto-Dominion Bank–are in intense talks with BCE and its buyers and are seeking intense concessions. The banks have considered walking away from the deal, reports Reuters. Yet several analysts are skeptical that the banks will walk, as t...	June 24, 2008
Jim Cramer’s Lightning Round & Sudden Death	Lightning Round Bullish Eaton (ETN), Emerson Electric (EMR), Honeywell (HON), Precision Castparts (PCP), Frontline (FRO), Nordic American Tanker Shipping (NAT), Sociedad Quimica (SQM), Flir Systems (FLIR) and Titan Machinery (TITN). Bearish Orion Energy Systems (OESX), Paragon Shipping (PRGN), Buffalo Wild Wings (BWLD), Fiserv (FISV) and National Coal (NCOC). Sudden Death Cramer was bearish on BCE (BCE) and Activision (ATVI). Join the fastest growing community of small cap investors at Stockh...	June 23, 2008
BCE Lessons Ratings Redux	BCE (BCE) shareholders were allowed to exhale on Friday when Canada’s Supreme Court told financial markets to return to sanity and allowed the largest LBO to proceed. On Monday everyone is writing why this was destined to happen. On Friday the market did not have a clue as to what was going to happen. How did all these really smart and incredibly well paid people become confused? Are they still confused but just working on another file this week?The debt holders felt aggrieved because their i...	June 23, 2008

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