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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
In UBS Shuffle, a Prominent Banker Hangs Up His Deal-Making Cleats	The top ranks of big-league UBS AG bank merger advisers who have the private phone numbers of chief executives on their BlackBerry is thinning at a rapid pace. John Cryan, the UBS financial institutions group, or FIG, banker stepped out of the deal-making fray today. The troubled Swiss bank, which reported a 358 million Swiss franc loss for the second quarter, said Cryan will become chief financial officer for the bank, succeeding Marco Suter, effective Sept. 1. Cryan, a 47-year-old British b...	August 12, 2008
Fast Money Recap	Word On The Street WORD VIDEO HERE Bad Company/Good Stock - Ford Motor Seymour said that Ford Motor (F) is moving to become a global car company. He also mentioned that costs at Ford are coming down as the company writes down its UAW liabilities. Adami mentioned that he thinks CEO Alan Mullally is a genius and he wants to buy the stock. However, he said that Wall Street hates the name and doesn’t reward the shares for anything the company does right. Consumer Discretionary Trade The trader...	August 05, 2008
Analyst calls: AIG, RACK, FIG, AAPL, BBBY ,IFX ...	Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Apple Inc (AAPL), Dell (DELL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Bed Bath and Beyond (BBBY), Amer Intl Group (AIG), Analyst initiationsAnalyst upgrades: Merrill upgraded shares of AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) to Neutral from Underperform to reflect the company's pipeline momentum and lack of negative catalysts. Keefe Bruyette upgraded Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) to Outperform from Market Perform on valuation as they believe DB should trade...	August 05, 2008
Cramer on BloggingStocks: KKR takes advantage	Filed under: DaimlerChrysler (DAI), Ford Motor (F), General Motors (GM), Private equity, Market matters, Blackstone Group L.P (BX), Initial public offerings, Cramer on BloggingStocksTheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says KKR will join the list of buyout firms that fleece the small investor by going public. Just what we need, a private-equity firm to go public. That worked just great with Fortress Investment (NYSE: FIG) (Cramer's Take), and it was terrific with Blackstone (NYSE: BX) (Cramer's Take). A...	July 28, 2008
Banker Takes a Birthday Ticket to Hong Kong	For his birthday, Credit Suisse is giving Vikram Gandhi a ticket to Hong Kong. The global head of Credit Suisses financial institutions group, who turned 46 on Tuesday, has become the latest senior investment banker to leave New York to run a global business from outside of the U.S. New York has long been the nerve center for global deal makers, even those working for banks whose home is outside of the U.S., like Zurich-based Credit Suisse. According to an internal Credit Suisse memo, while ...	May 20, 2008
Fast Money Recap	Word On The StreetWORD ON THE STREET VIDEODollar TradeThe dollar is starting to show some strength and the traders discussed some possible trades for the a strong greenback. Adami said one way to play the dollar's strength is to short gold. Seymour said the European Central Bank is turning dovish and the fed funds futures are predicting that the Federal Reserve will cut rates into the year end. He said market players can short the CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust (FXY) or the CurrencyShares Eur...	May 12, 2008
A Good Day for the Advisers of Liberty Mutual and Safeco	The rapper Ice Cube once said a good day was any day he didn’t have to use his AK 47. Country singer Travis Tritt declared it a great day to be alive when he didn’t have to shave for three days and had some rice cooking in the microwave. On Wall Street these days, a good day is one where your bank isn’t hounded to death by write-downs or scurrilous rumors. Barring that, there are other natural highs, especially if you’re a banker who has worked on a newly announced $6.2 ...	April 23, 2008
Corsair and NatCity: Bankers, Bankers Everywhere	Physicist Stephen Hawking once told the story of a woman who claimed the world is supported on the back of a giant tortoise. When challenged about what supported that tortoise, the woman replied, “You’re very clever young man, very clever. But it’s turtles all the way down!” You might say the same of investment bankers, after looking at the prevalence of former advisers in this year’s auctions, bailouts and other rescues of financial institutions. First you had form...	April 21, 2008
Apollo Management to try its luck on the NYSE	Filed under: Private equity, Blackstone Group L.P (BX)Apollo Management, which is one of the largest private equity firms, has traded on Goldman Sach's (NYSE: GS) private exchange, GSTrUE OTC. Unfortunately, the shares are down 40% (since August). Of course, other alternative asset managers - such as Blackstone (NYSE: BX) and Fortress Investment Group (NYSE: FIG) - have suffered plunges as well. So what's the next step for Apollo? Well, the firm plans to trade on the NYSE. The IPO filing calls...	April 09, 2008
Earnings highlights: Adobe, ConAgra, Lennar, Oracle, Tiffany, Darden and others	Filed under: Earnings reports, Walgreen Co (WAG), Penney (J.C.) (JCP), Adobe Systems (ADBE), Tiffany and Co (TIF), ConAgra Foods (CAG), Darden Restaurants (DRI), KB HOME (KBH), Lennar Corp'A' (LEN), Oracle Corp (ORCL), CKE Restaurants (CKR)Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks: AAR Corp. (NYSE: AIR) posted record third-quarter earnings and revenue. Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) posted better-than-estimated first-quarter results and ...	March 29, 2008

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