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- Gain an Insight into Man's Attempt to Manage Market Risk
- DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c54267) has announced the addition of "A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation" to their offering. Why do markets keep crashing and why are financial crises greater than ever before? As the risk manager...
- Research articles 2007-04-17
- Salomon Brothers Municipal Partners Fund II Inc. Settles with Karpus Management; Fund to Consider a Merger
- NEW YORK -- Salomon Brothers Municipal Partners Fund II Inc. (NYSE: MPT) (the "Fund"), a closed-end investment company, today announced that the Fund has entered into an agreement with George W. Karpus and Karpus Management, Inc. ("KIM") settling a derivative lawsuit against the Fund and its directors in the Supreme...
- Research articles 2006-02-13
- Relocation payment scrutinized during federal looting trial
- By Steve Fry THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL KANSAS CITY, Kan. --- Former Westar Energy executive vice president Doug Lake testified Monday that no one told him he had to sell his home in the New York City area when collecting $262,000 in a home-relocation deal with Westar. ...
- Research articles 2005-08-02
- Trizec taps 3 lenders for big NY office loan.(Trizec Properties)
- After a heated bidding contest, a Trizec Properties partnership has decided to award a $600 million financing assignment jointly to three securitization programs that had bid separately--J.P. Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley. The fixed-rate loan will be backed by two office properties...
- Research articles 2004-04-16
- Ian Kerr, Personal View: The renaissance of proprietary trading.
- Byline: Ian Kerr It was already the worst-kept secret on Wall Street and in the City of London but some mischief-maker has spilled the beans. Proprietary trading is back. Almost everyone is hard at it and, as a London-based hedge fund manager quipped: "The...
- Research articles 2003-03-23
- Wall Street Banks Spend Own Cash to Beat Bears.
- By Duncan Hughes, Sunday Business, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 10--NEW YORK--Leading Wall Street houses are compensating for the loss of revenues from dealmaking by quietly increasing the use of their own capital for trading in equities and fixed-interest securities....
- Research articles 2002-11-10
- Andersen could break for want of tough love.
- Mar 23, 2002 The Sydney Morning Herald ABIX via COMTEX -- Andersen should be indicted, according to the former chairman of the US Securities & Exchange Commission, Richard Breedon. Breedon has said Andersen did too little, too late in the collapse of Enron, failing...
- Research articles 2002-03-22
- New Executive: Turning liability to asset;Undeterred by loss of key exec, chief pumps up business at Rothschild.(Gerald Rosenfeld of Rothschild North America Inc.)(Brief Article)
- Three months after taking over as head of the American arm of the legendary Rothschild banking house, Gerald Rosenfeld faced what many would have regarded as a devastating setback. Wilbur Ross, the bank's highest-profile personality and Wall Street's best-known trader in the debts of bankrupt companies,...
- Research articles 2000-05-08
- It's time to get together.(investment banks enjoy boom in international mergers and acquisitions)(Industry Overview)
- Investment banks were kept busy by the sheer volume of long-delayed transactions made possible during 3rd qtr 1998 when world stock prices staged a rally. Investment bankers had it so good starting from Oct 19, 1998 with the announcement of four American transactions worth $25 billion to British Petroleum and...
- Research articles 1999-02-01
- Discount firms expand, enter IPO business
- Discount brokers, big and small, are getting into the business of initial public offerings. The discount arm of Fidelity Investments has linked up with Salomon Brothers in the sale of new stocks. Schwab has joined three Wall Street firms in the underwriting field, giving its customers access to offerings. ...
- Research articles 1997-09-16
- Salomon awaits partnership payoff. (Salomon Brothers has yet to make a profit from its joint venture with Fidelity Investments Inc.)
- Alliance with Fidelity still hasn't produced new business gains In January, when Salomon Brothers forged its unique alliance with Fidelity Investments' discount brokerage unit, Salomon officials argued the joint venture would help the firm generate new equity underwriting business. But six months later, there is...
- Research articles 1997-07-21
- Montgomery Securities Hires Additional High Yield Professionals
- SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 19, 1997--Montgomery Securities today announced that it has made two new additions to its high yield effort. Robert Heffes has been hired as a principal in the high yield trading department and Trish Parisi has been hired as a principal in high yield sales....
- Research articles 1997-02-19
- Clean books make O'Reilly 'a giant killer.' - regional O'Reilly Automotive performs well against larger chain operations - The Power Retailers: O'Reilly
- `O'Reilly the Giant Killer." Perhaps it's local pride talking, but giant killer is what Kevin Dyches, a Springfield, Mo., equity research analyst, calls O'Reilly for its ability to face the challenge of AutoZone and Pep Boys--Manny, Moe & Jack, chains seven times its size, by boosting its presence in its...
- Research articles 1996-11-04
- 3 Players Vie for Century Plaza Deal
- Three investment banks are in the running to provide up to $250 million of financing to the buyer of the Century Plaza Towers complex in Los Angeles. Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Salomon Brothers are vying for the assignment. The winner presumably would end up securitizing...
- Research articles 1996-10-14
- Gucci Public Offering Is Priced At $48 Per Share
- FLORENCE, Italy--BUSINESS WIRE--March 28, 1996--Gucci Group N.V. (NYSE and Amsterdam: GUC) announced today that its Global Offering of 26,400,000 common shares has been priced at US$48 per share (NLG 79.368).All of the 26,400,000 shares were offered by Codia Holding N.V., which is indirectly controlled by Investcorp S.A. The underwriters...
- Research articles 1996-03-28
- Sell-off game comes of age.(privatization industry matures after 10 years of existence)(Brief Article)
- The privatization industry was born in 1984 with British Telecom as the first entity privatized. In its second decade, the industry has become a mature one as deals fall into two categories. Either they are complex and politically difficult deals or pioneering arrangements done in the Third World. Privatization has...
- Research articles 1995-03-01
- When the tough get going. (US investment banks find it difficult to make profits in 1994)
- Rising interest rates and new competitors have made it more difficult for investment banks to make money in 1994. Goldman Sachs announced a 70% drop in profits while Salomon Brothers reported a 3rd qtr loss of $104 million.INVESTMENT banks everywhere have made the business of making money look deceptively...
- Research articles 1994-10-22
- How G.M. bought itself a lemon. (Electronic Data Systems, General Motors)
- How G.M. Bought Itself a Lemon When invited by The Nation to report on Wall Street, I was happy to accept. Over the past five or so years the country, the press and academia have become transfixed by finance. As that attention...
- Research articles 1987-01-31
- Flows and ebbs. (flow of investments)
- NOBODY knows exactly by how much international investment in equities grew during the long bull market. But Salomon Brothers, an American investment bank, reckons it has a good idea of how much that business shrank during and after last October's cra NOBODY knows exactly by how...
- Research articles 1988-04-23
- Citi's Michael Klein Will Finally Have Time for Model Trains and Stamp Collecting
- Citigroup’s announcement today that Michael Klein is leaving the company surely makes one wonder whether there is a reason for Citigroup. Klein, oft referred to as one of the bank’s “most senior executives†though he is all of 44, is leaving “to pursue other opportunities.†He should have a...
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
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