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• I Cant Remember If the Car Left First, or If the Girl Left First

  
  My Notes on the Stock Market — Authority: 107
  Carl Icahn is an American billionaire financier. He appears in headline news as a "corporate raider." This means that his company will do what it has to do to unseat existing management of poorly run companies. The purpose for doing so is to change the way it does business. Most recently, Icahn wants to break-up ...
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• Hot Links: In The Bunker

  
  The Reformed Broker — Authority: 608
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Carl Icahn Guest Lecture At Yale University

  
  market folly — Authority: 588
  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 & ...
  3 days ago

• Icahn Outbids Penn For Fontainebleau Las Vegas

  
  DealBook — Authority: 756
  Financier Carl Icahn has offered $156.5 million to acquire the partially built Fontainebleau Las Vegas resort, which has been stalled in bankruptcy court since June, according to the resorts chief operating officer.
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• Biogen Idec Accused Again of Excessive CEO Pay, Lousy Performance, By Big Shareholder

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 668
  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: 863
  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 ...
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• Barnes & Noble socks it to shareholders with poison pill

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 664
  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: 608
  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

• Is Icahn Swooping Down on MGM?

  
  DealBook — Authority: 756
  Is Carl C. Icahn buying Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bonds "like a bat out of hell"? Deadline Hollywood cited one film financing source as saying that the billionaire investor was snapping them up.
  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 . ...
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• A Letter From 2019

  
  The Reformed Broker — Authority: 608
  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 Files for Bankruptcy

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 899
  CIT Group filed for bankruptcy protection Sunday afternoon, a humbling event for the 101-year-old lender, but one expected to keep the company running.
  4 weeks ago

• CIT Group to File For Bankruptcy Within Days

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 636
  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...
  4 weeks ago

• CIT moves closer to pre-packaged bankruptcy approval (Reuters)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 168
  Reuters – CIT Group has met at least one of the hurdles necessary to file for a prepackaged bankruptcy, sources said, bringing the commercial lender one step closer to the fast bankruptcy process it is seeking to lower its liabilities and get back to health. Original post: (Reuters)"> ...
  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: 790
  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: 636
  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: 790
  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

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