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The U.S. unemployment rate may have risen to 10.2% in October, but there are still companies hiring in finance. Here's a peek at the latest financial institutions that are reportedly hiring.
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View from the City
By Jonathan Braude |
In McDonald's Icelandic saga, a business disappears and re-emerges rebranded and rejuvenated without even a token exchange of money.
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Capital Calls
By Vyvyan Tenorio |
Infrastructure deals may be reviving but private equity's role remains unclear.
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Media Maneuvers
By Yvette Kantrow |
The venerable magazine slashes its frequency and orders up the glitz. Funny how no one seems willing to follow the strategy of the only business magazine that's doing well.
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Analysis
By Matt Miller |
Crushed by heavy debt and imploding banks, Ukraine struggles to restructure. Last year, the country's nonperforming loans topped 14%, and the official number of insolvencies is expected to double this year.
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Analysis
By Olaf De Senerpont Domis |
IBM might be right in calling rival IT services providers antiquated. But does it matter?
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Safe Harbor
By David Marcus |
A lawyer and an academic debate the constitutionality of Delaware's anti-takeover statute.
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Linklaters' Schmidt says how regulators handled Pfizer Inc.'s acquisition of Wyeth is an outlier of how others merger reviews will be conducted.
Sullivan & Cromwell's Rodgin Cohen says, "the magnitude of what we saw in Sept '08 surpasses anything we saw before."
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The new super-regionals
With the biggest banks busily digesting massive acquisitions and bumping up against deposit caps, midtier acquirers are gobbling up FDIC-seized banks. Haven't we seen this before?
Buyout blackball?
As the crisis unfolded, private equity rushed to buy battered banks, only to discover this was one club they had difficulty getting into.
Too big to flail
The banks are too big; the banks shouldn't gamble. There are many helpful hints about how they should be broken up and their activities curtailed, but so far, Washington's response seems to be 'subsidize, and muddle through.'
Coyote ugly
Jim Balsillie made a mess of trying to use the Bankruptcy Code to move Phoenix's hockey team to Hamilton, Ontario. But in the end, there's one less deep-pocketed sports nut out there to save a wilting franchise.
Barry's way
The mogul of IAC/InterActive continues to shuffle the deck in search of a winning hand. Content, anyone?
Where's the beef?
In McDonald's Icelandic saga, a business disappears and re-emerges rebranded and rejuvenated without even a token exchange of money.
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