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A Gold Merger Fight for the Holidays (GG)
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With gold up over $1,000.00 per ounce and with many pundits looking for much higher prices into 2010 and beyond, it has been a bit of a wonder where the gold mergers have been. This morning came an announcements from Goldcorp Inc. (NYSE: GG) that it has delivered to Canplats Resources Corporation an amendment to ...4 days ago -
SPAC-tacular SPACs and Blank Checks that Shot Blanks (TOH, REN, CCME, SCRQF, AUTC, GHC, CIO, PPAC, GHQ, IRDMU, TTY, GGEEF, TCW, IAQG, AYA, BPW, CACA, GSMEF)
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Once thought to be slipping through the recession’s cracks and into oblivion, many special purpose acquisition companies not only succeeded in getting investors to sign off on mergers—some generated substantial value after the deal for shareholders. SPACupdate.com tracks these SPACs, and has anointed the year’s ...6 days ago -
E*TRADE New CEO… Chances of Buyout Changing? (ETFC, C, AMTD, SCHW, GS, MS)
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E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) has some good news this morning, although this could actually be bad news for those hoping for an immediate takeover. The company has been without an heir apparent in the CEO role until this morning. The online brokerage firm has named board member Robert Druskin as ...1 week ago -
BofA’s New CEO Brian Moynihan: No More Acquisitions (BAC)
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Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is still well under 100 hours of a new CEO announcement to run the show since it announced that Brian Moynihan would replace Ken Lewis as CEO of the largest US bank by domestic deposits. CNBC’s Maria Bartoromo just got a sit down interview with Brian Moynihan and asked [...] ...1 week ago -
Icahn Buys Big Stake in Video Game Maker Take-Two
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Take-Two Interactive ( TTWO ), which publishes several popular video games such as Grand Theft Auto, is supposed to be a turnaround story, but management cant seem to find the formula to make it a success. On Thursday, Take-Two announced disappointing earnings: Net revenue for the fourth fiscal quarter was $343.4 ...1 week ago -
BATS Plans The Other-Other IPO Market
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BATS Exchange has been an almost stealth success in the world of trading stocks. In about four years it now claims to have about 10% of the US equity trading market share and about 8% of the FTSE 100 market share in trading volume. The company also recently filed rules with the SEC to launch [...] [[ This is a ...1 week ago -
Risks in Exxon-XTO Merger? (XOM, XTO, CVX, BP, RDS-A, CHK)
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It seems that the huge game-changing deal between Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) and XTO Energy Inc. (NYSE: XTO) may have more than just one risk associated with the merger. The acquisition on Monday is a $31 billion all-stock transaction ($41 billion after debt assumption) for 0.7098 common shares of Exxon Mobil per ...1 week ago -
A Take On M&A and IPOs For 2010
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2009 has been far from an IPO-packed year compared to other years in this decade. Ditto for mergers and acquisitions. Many of the IPOs that price earlier in 2009 have done well while many of the later 2009 IPO have backed off. PricewaterhouseCoopers has issued a financial report today with an outlook into ...1 week ago -
IBM (IBM) To Acquire Lombardi
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IBM (NYSE:IBM) it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lombardi, a privately held software company based in Austin, Texas. Financial terms were not disclosed. Lombardi, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software and services, helps organizations automate and integrate business processes ...1 week ago -
The Deal To Salvage Playboy (PLA) Falls Apart: An Underfed Bunny
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The deal to save Playboy (NYSE:PLA), which has been in decline for years, appears to have fallen apart. Iconix Brands wanted the Playboy brand, one of the most visible in the world, but had little interest in the company’s faltering magazine and video divisions.The end to the Iconix negotiations leaves Hugh ...1 week ago -
52-Week High Club (V, XTO, CAMD)
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California Micro Devices Corp. (NASDAQ: CAMD) surged over 53.11% to a yearly high of $4.67 after the chipmaker agreed to be bought out by ON Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: ONNN) for $4.70 a share.Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) jumped over 5.6% to a yearly high of $85.91. The world’s biggest electronic payments network will be ...2 weeks ago -
Twelve Huge M&A Deals For 2010: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
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M&A activity picked up in the second half of 2009 as the market moved up and access to capital for big companies improved. Corporate debt offering soared and banks began to make capital available for deals like the proposed Kraft (NYSE:KFT) offer to buy Cadbury. Kraft has already lined up bridge loans for the ...2 weeks ago -
SPAC Developments Ramping Into Year-End (KWIC, TWO, UEI, ARR, AXG, NLX, BPW, TLB, URX)
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To close out the year, SPACs are pumping out deals one after another. However, as of late, some blank checks have not fared as well, and the NASDAQ and OTC Bulletin Board could become increasingly populated with blank checks’ targets that are elbowed from the AMEX. SPACupdate.com will follow up soon with our picks ...2 weeks ago -
ExxonMobil & XTO: Big Oil Gets Even Larger (XOM, XTO)
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Big oil is about to get even larger. Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) and XTO Energy Inc. (NYSE: XTO) announced an all-stock merger transaction valued at $41 billion. This merger, or acquisition, is meant to enhance ExxonMobil’s position in the development of unconventional natural gas and oil ...2 weeks ago -
Kraft (KFT) Has Lost The Battle For Cadbury (CBY)
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Kraft (NYSE:KFT) had made its hostile bid for Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) which carries a value of $16.3 billion. Cadbury shares have recently traded above the level of the Kraft bid and the US company lost its chance to buy the UK firm because it did not raise its bid high enough.Two things have happened in the [...] [[ This ...2 weeks ago -
Malaysian payment system developer buys Friendster
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Remember Friendster? Maybe because they’re the ones that keep spamming you; but today, news broke that Malaysian online payment solutions provider MOL has bought Friendster for an undisclosed amount, but it is rumoured to be around the $100 million mark. Both companies had announced a partnership in October of this ...2 weeks ago -
52-Week High Club (FDX, QDHC, RWC)
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FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) rose over 3.5% to a yearly high of $90.62 after the nations second largest package shipping company announced that it will report earnings of $1.10 per share for the fiscal second quarter, beating analyst estimates.QuadraMed Corporation (NADAQ: QDHC) rose over 30% to a yearly high of ...2 weeks ago -
Talbots Surprising SPAC Merger (BPW, TLB)
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The world of special purpose acquisition companies is already a strange one that offers a bit of individualized private equity via the stock market. The deal between BPW Acquisition Corp. (AMEX: BPW) and The Talbots, Inc. (NYSE: TLB) is another strange deal in the SPAC universe. Talbots is acquiring BPW ...2 weeks ago -
Ending Coffee Buyout Wars (DDRX, GMCR, PEET)
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It seems that the saga over the coffee buyout war is ending as it pertains to Diedrich Coffee, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: DDRX). Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEET) was set to respond by today with an answer over what it planned to do in response to the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) bid [...] ...3 weeks ago -
52-Week High Club (CI, AMD, ASIA, TRA)
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CIGNA Corporation (NYSE: CI) rose over 5% to a yearly high of $33.84 after Goldman Sachs said that managed-care providers are cheap and that the danger posed to the category by health-care reform has been overestimated.Advance Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) rose over 9.5% to a yearly high of $8.61 after the personal ...3 weeks ago
