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Cadbury's Drinks-Business Spinoff Eludes Credit Monster
It's been more than a year since Cadbury-Schweppes, under pressure from investors, said it would spin off its U.S. beverages business. But finally, it looks like it's actually going to happen: The spinoff, with the somewhat silly-sounding moniker Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, will begin trading on the New York Stock...
Cadbury's Drinks-Business Spinoff Eludes Credit Monster
It's been more than a year since Cadbury-Schweppes, under pressure from investors, said it would spin off its U.S. beverages business. But finally, it looks like it's actually going to happen: The spinoff, with the somewhat silly-sounding moniker Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, will begin trading on the New York Stock...
BNET Daily Dispatch: Sallie Mae, Ichan, Nokia and Cadbury
Sallie Mae, the largest U.S. student-loan company, is talking with private equity firms about a potential leveraged buyout. A LBO would be unusual for a financial company because it would require it to take on more debt, which can cut into the profit margins of a lender like Sallie...
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FTSE Posts Worst Weekly Fall in 6 Years
By Dominic Lau LONDON (Reuters UK) - Britain's top share index ended down 2.3 percent on Friday, registering its biggest weekly fall in six years, as banks and commodity stocks fell on global economic worries after the U.S. jobless rate jumped last month. Vodafone VOD was...
Eight Straight Months of Job Losses
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: This month's decline of 84,000 non-farming jobs marks the eighth straight month of job losses in the US. While the monthly job losses haven't gotten close to levels seen in past recessions, this many consecutive months of a negative jobs number has coincided...
Executive Leaves Hedge Fund Citadel
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - A Citadel Investment Group LLC executive who ran an unprofitable credit investment group for the large hedge fund company has resigned, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. Joe Russell, who was instrumental in making...
Pimco Names El-Erian CEO; Thompson to Retire
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pacific Investment Management Co, the world's biggest manager of bond funds, named Mohamed El-Erian as its sole chief executive after co-CEO Bill Thompson retires at the end of the year. El-Erian returned to Pimco as co-CEO in January from...
Bond Expert: Friday Outlook
John Jansen submits: Prices of Treasury coupons securities continue to march higher amidst global fears that economic growth will slow and that the level of growth will remain diminished for a protracted period. Against that background, the equity market rout which visited US equities yesterday continued around the world....
Currency ETFs Break Historical Uptrends
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Below we highlight price charts of three currency ETFs that had been in uptrends since their inception until recently. The Australian Dollar ETF FXA, British Pound ETF FXB, and Euro ETF FXE have all suffered big declines over the last few weeks. These...
Sector Prices vs. Summer Lows
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: As of an hour before Thursday's close, the S&P 500 was on pace to have its worse day since at least late June 26th on continued concerns over Financials and the economy. Additionally, Thursday's generally negative same-store sales figures for the retailers haven't...
Bespoke's Sector Snapshot (9/4/08)
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Below we highlight our trading range charts of the S&P 500 and its ten sectors. In the charts below, the blue shading represents between one standard deviation above and below the 50-day moving average white line. When prices are within this blue shading,...
Hopes Vanish For Commercial Property Recovery
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Property fund managers and analysts have written off all hope of a British commercial real estate recovery in the next year-and-a-half, consensus data showed on Friday. According to the quarterly survey by Investment Property Forum IPF, property experts have slashed their...
Mortgage Rates and Default Risk Charts
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: A couple of weeks ago, credit crisis watchers were focused on rapidly rising 30-year fixed mortgage rates as well as the spiking cost to insure against corporate debt default. As shown in the charts below, default risk still remains extremely elevated, but at...
OECD Lowers Growth Projections for All G-7 Countries Except the US
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Below is a chart of the OECD's most recent projections for 2008 growth rates of G-7 countries. As shown, the OECD decreased growth estimates for every country except the US versus their June projections (Advantage: US Dollar). The biggest declines in estimates came...
Bill Gross Compares Pimco to SWFs and Central Banks
Mike Steinhardt submits: “We, as well as our SWF and central bank counterparts, are reluctant to make additional commitments.” - A line from Bill Gross in his monthly Pimco Investment Outlook. A little over a month ago, I questioned …Is Pimco Too Big? After reading his outlook and...
Qualcomm: What's the Right Time to Establish a Longer-Term Position?
Market Folly submits: I want to highlight the weakness we've been seeing in technology recently. In mid-August, the Nasdaq was easily outperforming the S&P500. However, as we've slid into September, technology has given back its gains. I've been waiting patiently to add to some tech positions that are typically high-flyers....
Samsung Elec Mulls SanDisk Buy
By Marie-France Han and Nathan Layne SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd , the world's top maker of memory chips, said it may buy flash memory maker SanDisk SNDK, which is valued at $3.2 billion, in a deal that could reshape a...
Valartis Buys Austrian Unit From Anglo Irish Bank
ZURICH (Reuters UK) - Valartis VLRT has acquired Anglo Irish Bank Austria AG from Anglo Irish Bank ANGL, the Swiss financial services group said on Friday. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Following the transaction, the Vienna-based private banking services provider and asset manager,...
Five Presentations from the Recent Biotech Investment Conference
Mike Huckman submits: Medivation's Presentation: Standing Room Only A little more than 24 hours after announcing its big, lucrative Alzheimer's drug partnership with Pfizer PFE, Medivation MDVN had the lead-off position (I wonder if they told organizers they'd be a newsmaker) at yesterday's BioCentury/Thomson Reuters biotech investment conference...
Xstrata Lifts Stake in Indophil
By Eric Onstad LONDON (Reuters UK) - Anglo-Swiss mining group Xstrata XTA said on Friday it was boosting its stake to just below 20 percent in Australian-listed prospector Indophil Resources NL IRN, which saw its shares tumble over lack of confidence in a competing bid....
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