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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
European Vacation: LBOs Get Put on Hold	Many European leveraged buyouts are expected to be put on hold until next year as banks–increasingly worried about the solvency of their peers–are unwilling to commit to any leveraged buyout that involves a large syndicate of lenders. Doubts have been raised by European bankers about the largest transactions in the market, such as Reed Elsevier’s sale of its business publishing business, Reed Business Information, for more than £1bn ($1.76 billion), and Elan’s spin-out o...	October 09, 2008
Spreads Widen on Big European M&A Deals, Too	Spreads on pending mergers and acquisitions are widening in the U.S., the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column reported Wednesday. Part of the problem is that Wall Street banks are making it harder for arbitrage investors to borrow money to invest in mergers and acquisitions. Well, it looks as though spreads are widening in Europe, too. Spreads, of course, are the difference between the current trading price and the offer price of an acquisition target. As a deal gets closer to...	September 25, 2008
Jim Cramer’s Lightning Round	Bullish Frontline (FRO), Nordic American Tanker (NAT), Sears Holding (SHLD), Southern Copper (PCU), Walgreens (WAG) and Apple (AAPL). Bearish Regions Financial and ING Group (ING). Chat and share ideas with the best small cap traders LIVE each day free at Stocknetworkonline.com...	September 18, 2008
Mean Street: Russia Says “We Will Bury You, Shareholders.”	This weekend, a Barron’s/Value Line Survey identified America’s best fund manager. It is Jan-Wim Derks of the ING Russia Fund. “This is the best time to make money,” pronounced the No. 1-ranked Derks. Ironically, Barron’s real #1, Rupert Murdoch, would beg to disagree. A week ago, in talking about News Corp. in Russia, Murdoch observed, “We have great growing business there butthe more I read about investments in Russia, the less I like the feel of it. The m...	August 11, 2008
SEC Approves CEFs’ Monthly Payouts	The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently granted exemptive relief to two closed-end funds (CEFs), allowing them to make monthly payouts of capital gains. This exemption lifts rules that were put into place by the Investment Company Act of 1940, which prohibited closed-end funds from making long-term capital gains distributions more than once a year. Kevin Burke for Ignites reports that the two funds granted this exemption are the ING Clarion Real Estate Income Fund (IIA) and the ING...	August 11, 2008
Safe haven stocks?, solutions to 6 nest egg woes & which college grads earn the most - Today in Money 8/11	Filed under: Google (GOOG), Apple Inc (AAPL), General Electric (GE), Wal-Mart (WMT), Exxon Mobil (XOM), China, Money and Finance TodayIn the News: · Gas Prices Drop for 25th Straight Day · China Markets Hit 19-Month Low on Economic Fears · 3 Million iPhone's Sold in Debut Month · iPhone Software Downloads Take Off · Giant Retailers Look to Sun for Energy Savings · Prices for Some Drugs Skyrocket · Fed Presses Big US Banks on Liquidity Wha...	August 11, 2008
‘For Sale’ Signs Popping Up on Small-Cap Street	The stock market’s M&A-hunters are finding just what they want on the streets of small-cap land–lots of “For Sale” signs. Getty Images Strained by a slowing economy, tighter credit and higher costs, more and more small-caps decided last month that they are willing to be bought. In July alone, at least 113 companies in the Russell 3000 announced their interest in doing deals, with those companies clustered in the consumer, health-care and technology sectors, ac...	August 06, 2008
From Russia, With Sell-Offs	Investors in America have reacted nervously at times to the attempts by government officials to defend Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac through soothing commentary. Suffice to say that things are a bit different in Russia. Shares of giant Russian miner Mechel OAO, which trades American depository receipts on the New York Stock Exchange, have been pummeled after unexpected outbursts from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who criticized the company Thursday and then renewed his criticism Monday. Th...	July 29, 2008
A Box Office Look at Anheuser-Busch & InBev	In Hollywood, the term “high concept” demands that a pitch for a movie be clear within just a few words. Very often, the high-concept pitch gets distilled to a simple cross match: “‘Finding Nemo.’” It’s like ‘Jaws’ meets ‘Garfield’ meets ‘The Lion King,’” might be a (fictional) example. Such thinking isn’t limited to the palm-lined boulevards of Los Angeles. It applies to the world of mergers and acquisiti...	June 25, 2008
Four at Four: All In Favor of Lengthening The Weekend?	The S&P’s trend has been unfavorable of late. The index has declined by more than 6% in a 12-day period. The wall of worry is slicked with ice. Investors threw it all out today, dumping large-cap and small-caps, banks, tech and transports, and shifted into bonds in what may be an early sign that the market is hitting its fourth instance of a credit-related freakout (following similar actions in August, November, and March). “There’s a lot of worry out there and wherever ...	June 20, 2008

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