FB starts trading on the NasdaqZDNet (blog)By Emil Protalinski | May 18, 2012, 7:59am PDT Summary: Facebook is now a public company. Will the stock go up, or down? The social networking giant has started trading shares on the Nasdaq under the “FB” …
(via AFP) Shares in Spain’s troubled Bankia soared 25.88 percent on Friday as the financial sector staged a dramatic recovery a day after 16 banks…
RestaurantNewsRelease.comCarl's Jr. parent firm CKE files for $100-million IPOLos Angeles TimesCKE, which owns the Carl's Jr. and Hardee's chains, has yet to determine the size of the stock offering or an estimated price range. By Tiffany H…
Globe and MailFacebook IPO With ~10 Billion War Chest Could Just Buy Apple And GrowForbesThe Facebook IPO will deposit somewhere between six and 20 billion dollars into cash. Facebook could ignore all the naysayers (about how this IPO is the most fooli…
Legg Mason Rises Most in Two Years After KKR RepurchaseBloombergLegg Mason Inc. (LM), the money manager whose biggest shareholder is activist investor Nelson Peltz, soared the most in two years after saying it will repurchase $1.25 billion of debt from…
May 15 (Reuters) – Noted investors including mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments and hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman bought shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co…
New York TimesChesapeake faces SEC probeCNNMoneyBy Hibah Yousuf @CNNMoneyInvest May 3, 2012: 5:46 PM ET Chesapeake Energy and its embattled CEO Aubrey McClendon are facing an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Click the photo to c…
FortuneWhy the Amazon Naysayers Should Be ScaredBusinessWeekBy Brad Stone on April 27, 2012 Another quarter, another blowout earnings report for Amazon.com (AMZN). The online retailer and technology juggernaut blew away analysts' expectations on Th…
Stockman suggests you’d be a fool to hold anything but cash now, and maybe a few bars of gold. He thinks the Federal Reserve’s efforts to ease the pain from the collapse of our “national leveraged buyout” — his term for decades of reckless, debt-fuel…
Analysis: The great hedge fund humbling of 2011
By Svea Herbst and Katya Wachtel | Reuters – 3 hrs ago…
BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Excuses, excuses and more excuses.
The result was a humbling year for the $1.7 trillion hedge fund industry, with…