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Fast Money Recap	Word On The Street WORD VIDEO HERE Subprime Slime KeyCorp (KEY) fell 12% Wednesday after the announced it underestimated its exposure to subprime loans. Is the subprime slime spreading into regional banks? Finerman thinks that is the case. She explained that regional banks were priced out of the single family mortgage business by Countrywide, so they started opening up construction lending, which turned out to be a bad idea. Finerman pointed out it might be to early to start shorting the banks t...	May 28, 2008
Private Equity: The List of the Fallen	A lot rides on the word of a private equity firm, and that includes going through with deals to which they commit. But as the credit crunch is now revealing, a deal is not a deal until it’s a deal. Deal Journal looked at the dead-deal records of the Top 10 buyout firms listed on Fortune’s 2007 Private Equity Power List. Of the 10, half have had deals fall apart over the last 18 months. That leaves TPG, Warburg Pincus, Apollo Advisors, T.H. Lee and Providence Equity Partners as the on...	March 27, 2008
Tuesday's Upgrades and Downgrades	UpgradesSara Lee (SLE)- DA Davidson Underperform » Neutral Netease.com (NTES)- Brean Murray Hold » Buy Sepracor (SEPR)- AmTech Research Sell » Neutral Methanex (MEOH)- CIBC Wrld Mkts Sector Perform » Sector Outperform BioMed Realty (BMR)- Stifel Nicolaus Hold » Buy Pier 1 Imports (PIR)- Wachovia Mkt Perform » Outperform Deutsche Telekom (DT)- JP Morgan Underweight » Neutral Lululemon Athletica (LULU)- BMO Capital Markets Underperform » Market PerformOSI Pha...	March 04, 2008
Fast Money	Word On The StreetThe S&P 500 put in its best weekly gain in 5 years as Wall Street shock off a weaker-than-expected jobs report Friday. The Dow closed up 92 points and the Nasdaq finished up 23 points. U.S. payrolls fell by 17,000 for January which was the first loss in over 4 years. Tim Seymour says that the payroll data suggests to him that the U.S. is heading into a rece...	February 01, 2008
StreetInsider.com After-Hours Movers 10/15	StreetInsider.com After-Hours Movers: Enzo Biochem, Inc. (NYSE: ENZ): Fourth Quarter revenues for the quarter increased 81% to $17.9 million compared to $9.9 million in the year ago period. Robbins & Myers Inc. (NYSE: RBN) 4% HIGHER; reports Q4 adj-EPS of $1.05, versus the consensus of $0.84. Sees Q1 EPS of $0.45-$0.64, versus the consensus of $0.63. Sees 2008 EPS of $3.30-$3.50, versus the consensus of $3.12. OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OSIP) 1.9% LOWER; Genentech reported third quarter ...	October 15, 2007
Outback Steakhouse Bondholders Exact Revenge	OSI Restaurant Partners today proved the old saying “Time is Money.” The Outback Steakhouse parent is likely to pay an interest rate of about 10% on $550 million of bonds it’s selling to help finance the company’s leveraged buyout, according to a note from Standard & Poor’s Leveraged Commentary & Data (separate from the rating division). That’s a full 0.375 percentage point higher than they agreed to pay six weeks ago, when the bonds first were sold....	June 08, 2007
Outback Steakhouse Bondholders Exact Revenge	OSI Restaurant Partners today proved the old saying “Time is Money.” The Outback Steakhouse parent is likely to pay an interest rate of about 10% on $550 million of bonds it’s selling to help finance the company’s leveraged buyout, according to a note from Standard & Poor’s Leveraged Commentary & Data (separate from the rating division). That’s a full 0.375 percentage point higher than they agreed to pay six weeks ago, when the bonds first were sold....	June 08, 2007
Biomet Shows Private Equity That Resistance is Futile	Playing chicken doesnt always mean being one. Unless youre a big-time private-equity firm. One after the other, private equitys biggest names have caved in to public shareholder pressure to improve terms of buyout deals. Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and TPG had little choice but to raise their offer for Biomet today. Indiana law mandates that 75% of outstanding shares must be voted for a takeover proposal. That gave shareholders the kind of leverage that would ...	June 07, 2007
Fast Money Recap & Review	Top 3 - iPhone Hits Stores In 3 Weeks, Big Blue Breaking Out and The Cost Of TerrorTop three #1June 29 release of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone is big news. Mary Thompson from CNBC is covering the release and she joined the show. The price of the phone was disclosed at $499-$599. Bolling called it a once in a lifetime product, so buy AAPL. It does not compete with the BlackBerry (RIMM) and he said to sell Palm, Inc. (PALM). Najarian was on the bandwagon also loving the iPhone and calling AAPL a buy. ...	June 04, 2007
Will the Biggest LBO Ever Get Even Bigger?	TXU could be the next fortress public shareholders storm in their battle against private equity. That’s the belief anyway of Citigroup analysts including Greg Gordon. He has a note out this morning raising the possibility that Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and TPG Capital will have to raise their $69.25-a-share buyout offer for the Texas utility to get the deal done. (The stock is currently at $67.67.) At $32 billion, it’s already the biggest proposed leveraged buyout in history. As we...	June 01, 2007

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