FRANKFURT AFP — One of the main shareholders of Deutsche Boerse, the US private equity group Atticus Capital, joined rebel shareholder TCI in its attack against the management of the German stock market operator. "The time for compromise is part. The collision course has been set," Atticus Capital's senior...
"Well, he looks likes he's a wise man now and a man of restraint, almost Atticus Finch," said MSNBC's Chris Matthews about Bush and his handling of the port deal with the United Arab Emirates.
FRANKFURT AFP — US-based private equity group Atticus Capital announced on Friday that it had increased its stake in Deutsche Boerse and turned up the pressure on the German stock exchange operator to boost its capital return. In an open letter to Deutsche Boerse's supervisory board chief Kurt Viermetz,...
On the verge of expanding its presence at Carnegie Hal Tower, the investment management firm, Atticus Capital, has chosen instead to relocate its offices to the General Motor building where it just signed a deal for the entire 12th floor The firm was in the process of renewing its lease...
PARIS AFP — US hedge fund Atticus Capital, a major shareholder in the pan-European stock exchange Euronext, said it was backing the company's management to decide which other stock market operator the Paris-based group should merge with. Atticus, which initially said it would prefer Euronext to tie up with...
LONDON AFP — Rebel Deutsche Boerse shareholders are lining up veteran banker Jacob Rothschild to replace Rolf Breuer as chairman of the Frankfurt stock market operator. Atticus Capital, a US-based hedge fund which has a five percent-plus stake in Deutsche Boerse, is leading the campaign to have Breuer ousted...
LONDON AFP — Two large shareholders in Deutsche Boerse, operator of the Frankfurt stock exchange, formally declared themselves against the group's takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange LSE. Investment funds Fidelity Investments and Atticus Capital, who respectively hold 6.0 and 5.1 percent of Deutsche Boerse, said they were...
Contemporary debates concerning race in America owe much to the 1960s when African Americans and other minority groups gained basic legal protections and rights of citizenship denied them in the century following Reconstruction. The current offspring of this movement is multiculturalism, a term that encompasses a...
Gregory Peck: America's Quintessential Leading Man Sooner or later in his long, illustrious career Gregory Peck had to play Abraham Lincoln. It was a role he seemed destined for, with his lanky, 6-foot-3 frame, his dark, formidable eyebrows, his aura of decency, judiciousness and flinty conviction. He finally did,...
To watch Steve Nash with a basketball this season is to watch Leontyne Price at the Met, ready to perform Aida in the late 1970s; Pele with the soccer ball at his feet, ready to pounce for Brazil in the mid '60s; Harper Lee at her typewriter, circa 1959, a...
LISTS ARE the hot item. Last week, Hollywood's top 50 heroes and villains were released, along with country music's 100 greatest songs. Atticus Finch, Hannibal Lecter and "Stand By Your Man," just in case you missed the winners. We could use another list: Larry Brown's...
Eric Selig joins Evans & Dixon L.L.C. as an associate in its civil litigation practice. With experience in complex homicide, white collar crime and criminal defense, he will represent insurers and self-insured entities in different tort and insurance litigation cases. Previously, he worked for the Commitment Defense Unit at the...
ATHENS AFP — Nana Mouskouri has bid adieu to a remarkable half-century in music with a farewell concert in her native Greece at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens. Fans filled the ancient Odeon of Herodes Atticus on Wednesday evening to hear the 73-year-old songstress -- one of...
A MAJOR shareholder revolt at Deutsche Borse's annual meeting in May seems increasingly likely after Fidelity Investments added its voice to those of other dissident shareholders opposing its pounds 1.3bn bid for the London Stock Exchange. Fidelity, the world's largest mutual fund company, holds a stake of...
Jordan Kahn submits: The market sold off with a vengeance on Thursday. I have to say it continues to feel like forced margin selling and liquidations among big hedge funds. We already know that $4B Osparie blew up, and today, an even bigger hedge fund Atticus had to publicly...
LISTS ARE the hot item. Last week, Hollywood's top 50 heroes and villains were released, along with country music's 100 greatest songs. Atticus Finch, Hannibal Lecter and "Stand By Your Man," just in case you missed the winners. We could use another list: Larry Brown's...
Banks and utilities lift sentiment Jonas Crosland Barclays led the list of gainers in London on Monday, FT.com reports, after an activist shareholder called on the lender to abandon its bid for Dutch bank ABN Amro. Shares in Barclays rose 2.6 per cent to ...
Legg Mason Inc., of Baltimore, a financial services company, said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it boosted its stake in Sears Holding Corp., the largest U.S. department store chain, to 11.4 million shares, or 7 percent of shares outstanding, Bloomberg News said, quoting a story...
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