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- Carlyle Group and Lane Challenge Terms of Lehman Bankruptcy
- Ron Haruni submits: The Carlyle Group and former Neuberger CEO Jeffrey Lane filed an objection in bankruptcy court Tuesday, claiming that the $2.15 billion acquisition of Lehman Brothers’ (LEHMQ.PK) investment management division Neuberger Berman made Sept. 29 by Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman is too low and...
- External links 2008-10-15
- Is Flextronics Cutting Jobs in China?
- Ron Haruni submits: According to ChinaTechnews, Flextronics FLEX, the U.S. electronics firm centered on Singapore, plans to cut 30% of the jobs in its Beijing subsidiary office in addition to closing its Beijing-based research and development department. Quoting an unnamed company insider, the local media said Flextronics has already...
- External links 2008-12-02
- Is Jonathan Miller Interested in Yahoo?
- Ron Haruni submits: According to today's Wall Street Journal, former AOL TWX Chief Executive Jonathan Miller is trying to raise money to buy part, or all of Yahoo YHOO. Miller, who along with partner Ross Levinsohn, the former president of Fox Interactive Media NWS, runs the venture capital fund Velocity...
- External links 2008-12-03
- November Housing Starts: All-Time Low
- Ron Haruni submits: The number of housing starts and building permits, key measurements of home construction, plummeted to record lows in November, a Commerce Department report showed on Tuesday. November new building permits, which is a figure used as the earliest indicator for developments in the...
- External links 2008-12-16
- General Electric: Eliminates Quarterly Guidance, Acknowledges Global Challenges
- Ron Haruni submits: On Tuesday, at the company’s annual outlook meeting in New York, General Electric GE Chairman and CEO, Jeff Immelt provided an operational update. In his remarks, Mr. Immelt acknowledged that the current fiscal year was a very challenging one for the global economy and GE’s many...
- External links 2008-12-18
- S&P Lowers GE Outlook - A Downgrade May Be Possible
- Ron Haruni submits: Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced Thursday that it has revised its outlook on GE GE and its units, including General Electric Capital Corp. [GECC], to Negative from Stable. GECC, considered a core entity within GE, is one of the world’s most profitable and highly rated...
- External links 2008-12-19
- IndyMac's Assets: Has the FDIC Found a Buyer?
- Ron Haruni submits: According to Reuters, assets of the failed mortgage lender IndyMac Bank (IDMC.PK) may be bought by a consortium of private equity and hedge fund firms. The prospective buyers include: by Ron Haruni
- External links 2008-12-29
- Case-Schiller Index: Decline in Housing Prices Continues
- Ron Haruni submits: The S&P/Case-Schiller home-price index data, released on Tuesday, showed accelerating price declines in the prices of existing single-family homes across the U.S. For the seventh straight month, no area experienced price gains on a year-over-year [YoY] basis. The Index, which tracks 20 of the largest housing...
- External links 2008-12-31
- AIG Bailout Beneficiaries
- Ron Haruni submits: The debate on the validity of propping up crippled companies such as American International Group AIG intensified with this week’s $30 billion check that the Treasury handed to insurer. This was the fourth bailout to AIG, which already has put more than $170 billion in US taxpayers...
- External links 2009-03-07
- Republicans on Letting Banks Fail
- Ron Haruni submits: High-profile Republican Senators John McCain and Richard Shelby said on Sunday that the government should allow a number of the biggest American banks to fail rather, than commit more federal funds to prop them up. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., ranking member on the Banking Committee, said the...
- External links 2009-03-09
- AIG Giftwraps $450M
- Ron Haruni submits: The insurance giant American International Group AIG, who has received so far $173.3 billion far more than has been offered to any other financial firm in taxpayer bailout money from the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve - has plans to dole out more than $1 billion in...
- External links 2009-03-16
- Steve Jobs Deposition on Options Backdating Scandal
- Ron Haruni submits: Forbes has been able to obtain the full text of Steve Jobs’ sworn deposition given on March 18, 2008, to the Securities and Exchange Commission (119-pages) over Apple’s AAPL options backdating scandal. In the deposition, Jobs told SEC lawyers that after being paid a $1...
- External links 2009-04-27
- Commercial Real Estate Market May Soon Bulldoze Green Shoots
- Ron Haruni submits: Commercial real estate [CRE] delinquency rates are exhibiting severe deterioration and may soon bulldoze the ‘green shoots’. Since October of last year monthly delinquencies rates have increased at a pace that is without precedent. According to the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP), a group of academics focused on...
- External links 2009-05-31
- Visa's President Departs
- Ron Haruni submits: Joseph W. Saunders, Chairman and CEO of Visa V, announced late Monday that President John C. Hans Morris will step down as part of the company’s new reorganization process. According to a statement posted on the company’s Web site, Mr. Morris, who led Visa...
- External links 2009-07-28
- Icahn Swims Against the Tide, Increases Yahoo Holdings
- Ron Haruni submits: Billionaire investor and Yahoo Inc. YHOO board member Carl Icahn has increased his holdings in the Sunnyvale, California-based Web Portal by adding 6.8 million shares to his position for about $65 million. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, various Icahn entities purchased, between...
- External links 2008-11-28
- Fed Approves BoA's Acquisition of Merrill: Ramifications?
- Ron Haruni submits: On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve governing board announced its approval of the buyout of Merrill Lynch MER by Bank of America BAC. The acquisition of New York-based Merrill Lynch, one of the premier wealth management and advisory companies, allows BoA to create a unique financial...
- External links 2008-11-27
- Nokia Settles Patent Dispute with Qualcomm; Q3 Earnings Disappoint
- Ron Haruni submits: Finland’s handset maker and leading mobile phone supplier Nokia NOK, after reporting Thursday its Q3′08 results — gave confirmation that will pay a lump-sum payment of 1.7 billion Euros ($2.3 billion) to Qualcomm Inc. QCOM as part of the patent agreement between the companies. The...
- External links 2008-10-17
- Maxim to Acquire Digital Video Leader; Earnings Preview
- Ron Haruni submits: Maxim Integrated Products MXIM, a company that designs and manufactures high-performance semiconductor products, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Mobilygen Inc., a privately held company with a leading technology in developing H.264 video compression chips. In addition to expanding Maxim’s portfolio, the move brings the...
- External links 2008-10-17
- Can Circuit City Avoid Bankruptcy?
- Ron Haruni submits: Circuit City CC has undeniably a long history of nearly 60 years as a leader in the consumer electronics industry. However, the foundations of that status may not be enough for the electronics retailer to help it navigate from its current financial troubles. According to Wall Street...
- External links 2008-10-21
- Toshiba to Buy 30 Percent Stake in SanDisk
- Ron Haruni submits: On Monday, SanDisk SNDK, the world’s top supplier of flash data storage card products said that it has entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Toshiba Corp. to sell approx. 30% of the current NAND fab capacity of the parties’ joint ventures to Toshiba. ...
- External links 2008-10-21
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