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• Hot Links: In The Bunker

  
  The Reformed Broker — Authority: 607
  Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… The SEC hedge fund probe is going deeper.  ( DealBook ) Classic Crudele : What Bernanke should answer for in his hearing today.  ( NYP ) I’m making this one the post of the day: Carl Icahn talks activist investing with Robert Shiller ’s financial markets class at ...
  3 days ago

• Carl Icahn Guest Lecture At Yale University

  
  market folly — Authority: 575
  In a recent video courtesy of AcademicEarth , Yale Universitys renowned Professor of Economics Robert Shiller welcomed Carl Icahn to his classroom for a guest lecture. Embedded below is the video of Carl Icahns lecture on his career in finance, shareholder activism, and the economies and markets of today. RSS & ...
  4 days ago

• Biogen Idec Accused Again of Excessive CEO Pay, Lousy Performance, By Big Shareholder

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 653
  Biotech , Drugs , Multiple Sclerosis Luke Timmerman wrote: After a bitter standoff earlier this year with billionaire investor Carl Icahn over alleged mismanagement , Cambridge, MA-based Biogen Idec now faces another sharp attack from a major shareholder. New York-based HealthCor Management, a hedge ...
  2 weeks ago

• Amandas Return Fails to Save Dying Melrose Place [Trade Round Up]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 860
  It was too much to ask, but in the legends of television, Heather Locklear has been endowed with the powers of a superhero. And now we finally know, even even Amanda cant ride in to save us from ourselves. Suddenly the Universe is a very cold and empty place. • Apparently we are not a nation of people waiting ...
  2 weeks ago

• Barnes & Noble socks it to shareholders with poison pill

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 667
  Filed under: SEC filings , From the boards , Insiders Barnes & Noble Inc. ( BKS ) announced Tuesday that it had adopted a so-called shareholder rights plan to ward off "efforts to obtain control of the Company that are inconsistent with the best interests of the Company and its stockholders." The company ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hot Links: Shangri-La Found?

  
  The Reformed Broker — Authority: 607
  Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Templeton’s Mark Mobius sees another 40% gain for the BRIC nations.  ( Bloomberg ) What Are The Best Hedge Funds Buying ?  Including John Paulson, Steve Cohen, Steve Mandel .  ( PragCap ) The emperors drop some crumbs: Goldman and Buffett ’s plan to help small ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hollywood, land of confusion

  
  Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog — Authority: 483
  Today, much of the confusion appears to be ethnic. * Patrick Goldstein presents the U.K. based “ Case of the Vanishing and Less Famous African-Americans. ” * Universal is “circling” a director of commercials named Carl Erik Rinsch for a shot at the big time for a new action flick, writes Michael Fleming . ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Letter From 2019

  
  The Reformed Broker — Authority: 607
  Dear Josh, It’s me: Josh…the You from 10 years from now, using the latest technology from Google to send an email to you from the future.  Don’t freak out. Anyway, I’m just writing to let you know that the next ten years will be wacky, but everything turns out ok.  For regulatory reasons, I obviously ...
  3 weeks ago

• Reading Between The Lines Of David Einhorns Attack On CDS

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 752
  The $26.5 trillion (gross notional) CDS market is under siege. Or such is the latest news from the formerly pervasive (ab)user of CDS trading strategies, David Einhorn. In an op-ed in the FT , Einhorn states "I think that trying to make safer credit default swaps is like tryingto make safer asbestos,” he writes in ...
  4 weeks ago

• All The King’s Sycophants

  
  Unconventional Thinking — Authority: 113
  The other day I listened to a journalist, of sorts, bragging that he played golf recently with the President of the United States. Wonderful for the reporter’s ego. Terrible for journalism. Of course, favored journalists have always enjoyed special access to US Presidents, but that doesn’t mean the problem is ...
  4 weeks ago

• CIT Group to File For Bankruptcy Within Days

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 643
  CIT Group (CIT) intends to file for bankruptcy protection in New York within days, perhaps as early as Sunday, the WSJ reports, citing people familiar with the matter.The filing, which was overwhelming approved by creditors in  support of a prepackaged bankruptcy protection and comes as a...
  5 weeks ago

• Icahn Discloses Plans For CIT

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 752
  CIT is now certain to file for bankruptcy over the weekend, after it was unable to obtain the requsite number of consents for its exchange offer. The only question is whether or not the bankruptcy will be a pre-packaged, in which bondholders will accept specific haircuts or if it will be a free fall Chapter 11, which ...
  5 weeks ago

• CIT Group receives $1 billion loan from Icahn

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 789
  Filed under: Company News , CIT Group Commercial lender CIT Group Inc. said Friday that billionaire investor and bondholder Carl Icahn agreed to support the companys restructuring plan amid reports CIT may soon file for bankruptcy protection. Icahn also agreed to provide CIT with a $1 billion line of credit. ...
  5 weeks ago

• CIT Group Makes Peace With Carl Icahn

  
  ShoppingBlog.com — Authority: 637
  Embattled lender CIT Group has finally made peace with billionaire Carl Icahn, who is the companys biggest bondholder. Icahn had been opposing CIT Groups latest plan to reorganize with a bondholder debt swap. But after furious negotiations, all parties have tentatively agreed on a solution. CIT Group is so deep in ...
  5 weeks ago

• Another wicked October takes its toll on investor confidence

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 789
  Filed under: Company News , Economy , Earnings , CIT Group , Apple , Citigroup Slipping consumer confidence sent U.S. stocks tumbling Friday, nearly ending a six-month-long sprint that saw major indexes climb steadily and dramatically in the face of recession. The drop, on the last trading day of a wildly ...
  5 weeks ago

• CIT $1 billion from Carl Icahn, Icahn Capital LP

  
  George S. May Business Blog — Authority: 129
  As a part of their restructuring plan, CIT has entered an agreement with Carl Icahn to secure a $1 billion line of credit from Icahn Capital LP to provide themselves with supplemental liquidity as they go through with the plan.Icahn Capital has given CIT up until the new year to draw the new line of [...]
  5 weeks ago

• Corporate Titans Master the Obvious

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 433
  Why is the market breaking down today? A number of analysts are pointing to comments by corporate titans, Wilbur Ross, George Soros, and bank analyst Mike Mayo. What did Ross, Soros, and Mayo have to say? With all due respect, these corporate titans do not offer any new news. That said, let’s navigate. 1. Wilbur ...
  5 weeks ago

• A surprise “Wow!” in the CIT story

  
  Van Santos — Authority: 137
  I had previously stated that CIT was going to do everything in their power to keep Carl Icahn out of their restructuring plan.  Based on their public “calling out” of his statements it appeared things were going to get out of control.  Today; however, the story took a very strange twist. CIT has received a ...
  5 weeks ago

• Bunch of Yahoos

  
  MediaFile — Authority: 589
  A string of Yahoo sales, engineering and product executives took the stage on Wednesday in the companys first full-day briefing with analysts since May 2006, all with a mantra that came down from on high: "Today is the beginning of a journey back to respect ," said CEO Carol Bartz. With page views increasing, Carl ...
  5 weeks ago

• Bunch of Yahoos

  
  DealZone — Authority: 503
  A string of Yahoo sales, engineering and product executives took the stage on Wednesday in the company’s first full-day briefing with analysts since May 2006, all with a mantra that came down from on high: “Today is the beginning of a journey back to respect ,” said CEO Carol Bartz. With page views increasing, ...
  5 weeks ago

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