February 2008

Deal Stocks finish week down as Dow plummets

The majority of stocks involved in pending deals Friday were sucked into the vortex of the Dow Jones Industrial Average's 315.79 point decline to 12,266.39. The Dow tumbled on ongoing... Continue reading

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• Dealscape's greatest hits and wackiest rumors: Wee
• Analyst: Sprint's Hesse needs help
• Media Maneuvers: Secrets revealed
• Who are those possible Take-Two bidders anyway?
• Buffett may open wallet for $60B in deals
• Cerberus, Daimler squabble over Chrysler
• Markets in panic mode despite some desire for deal
• The Deal: Week of Feb. 3
• A paper tackles 'The Dark Role of Investment Banks
• Take-Two: Others interested in bidding
• Deal Digest: Feb. 29, 2008
• Deal International: News on HSBC, Centro Propertie
• Dealwatch: Cleantech
• Deal Stocks sunk by broader market sell-off
• Cramer blames congressmen for XM-Sirius delay
• Nielsen exec change ahead of Reed bid?
• Dealwatch: Univision
• Colbert shows why Sharper Image is bankrupt
• MoneyGram struggles with the rest of market
• Majoras announces FTC departure
• Zale, Limited Brands follow new diet
• Report: Ambac bail out plan in final stages
• Does Wattles' Circuit City stake presage a bankrup
• Deal Digest: Feb. 28, 2008
• Deal International: News on Xstrata-Vale, RBS-ABN-
• Deal calendar: Feb. 28, 2008
• EA reached out to Take-Two a year ago
• Deal Stocks mixed as Dow rally ends
• Energy dealmakers complain about prices
• DEAL EXCLUSIVE: Majoras to exit FTC for P&G
• AOL's CEO hopes Microhoo, Google beat each others
• Waxman's hearing delayed again
• Meet the shared shareholders of EA, Take-Two
• Midmarket deals tighten, but dealmakers remain opt
• Carlyle raising $4B Asia fund
• Finding illegality in private equity
• Delta-Northwest just flying through some turbulenc
• Daniel Bouton on risk
• Capital Markets: Ditching debt
• A peek inside China Investment
• Deal Digest: Feb. 27, 2008
• Deal International: News on Petroplus-Blackstone,
• Deal calendar: Feb. 27, 2008
• Deal Stocks close up as Dow continues to gain
• Shamrock keeps the heat on Reddy Ice
• Retail industry leads Auction Block parade
• Middle-market CEOs see M&A heating up in 2008
• Report: Ford, Tata to consummate Jaguar, Land Rove
• FASB overhaul OK'd
• Ubisoft as Take-Two's hero? Not so fast
• Deal Stocks make healthy gains
• Canadian pensions invest in China's FountainVest
• Citi's panic button would be selling Smith Barney
• MBIA to split businesses, eliminates dividend
• Wall Street's courtesans to kneel before Congress
• Deal Digest: Feb. 26, 2008
• Denham, Buffett and the Times: A little context
• Deal International: News on Telecom Italia, GdF an
• Deal calendar: Feb. 26, 2008
• Harbinger, Firebrand boost Gray Lady stake
• In the boardroom: The New York Times shakes up its
• Morgan Stanley sees bids for CICC drop 40%
• Deal Stocks sparked on affirmed bond insurer ratin
• Cablevision may seek gold at the end of the Rainbo
• Iridium could celebrate 10th anniversary of Ch. 11
• White House draws up list of SEC candidates
• Dabah files complaint to speed Children's Place an
• Hedge fund disclosures not enough to prevent risks
• Take-two makes major jump leading Deal Stocks
• Stephen Ross scores with buy of Dolphins stake
• Apax may bid for Reed's magazine unit
• Hellman & Friedman pays cash for Getty
• Deal International: The EC takes on sovereign fund
• PE Pipeline: Lawsuit could delay BCE buyout
• PE Pipeline: Hellman & Friedman completes Goodman
• Electronic Arts bids $2B for Take-Two
• Soapbox: Untangling the wires
• Soapbox: Forthright the first time
• Week ends on positive note for Deal Stocks
• Just in: Advisers in Mobile Storage acquisition
• Share lending's impact on proxy contests
• Dealscape's greatest hits and wackiest rumors: Wee
• PE Pipeline: FTC pushes back Apollo-Huntsman timel
• Media Maneuvers: Credit crunch for dummies
• Goldman Sachs affiliate bags Icahn casinos
• PE Pipeline: National Security may trigger end to
• Previewing The Deal: Week of Feb. 25
• Motorola's new Mr. Fix-it
• PE Pipeline: Big questions for Clear Channel buyou
• MoneyGram may have another suitor
• Furniture Brands shoots down Sun Capital offer
• Times tells shareholders to rebuff hedge funds
• Deal International: News on Xstrata, Pret A Manger
• Ackman says split up, MBIA says no, then MBIA says
• Economic worries drag down Deal Stocks
• Millstein to execs: Talk to shareholders, or else
• Pershing's Ackman: Short-seller with charitable in
• Continental-UAL deal waits in the wings of Delta-N
• PDL BioPharma continues asset sales
• Just in: Advisers on Reed Elsevier-ChoicePoint
• Georgeson tops proxy solicitations league tables
• Jerome Kerviel bankrupted an Idaho ski resort?
• SocGen report: One rotten rogue, many time servers
• Dealwatch: Banks, write-downs and the CEO shuffle
• SEC to revisit shareholder rights issues
• Soapbox: Stuck in the middle
• Sun Capital hits a bankruptcy trifecta
• Reed to sell magazine titles
• Deal Digest: Feb. 21, 2008
• Deal International: News on Reed Elsevier, SocGen
• Dealwatch: Pfizer
• Tech performance tops Deal Stock gains
• Concord Camera may face an uphill battle with Ever
• 3i exits early-stage investing
• 3Com: Not dead yet
• Sharper Image, Lillian Vernon the latest retailers
• More details on Kerviel, with report to follow
• Clinton puts Wall Street, daughter on notice
• Delta, Northwest deal not in jeopardy
• Blue Ridge raises $1.45B for China buyouts
• Deal Digest: Feb. 20, 2008
• Deal International: News on Virgin Blue, Northern
• Tepid broader market drags down Deal Stocks
• Yucaipa boosts stake in Chinese media company
• Midmarket PE firms bet on payment centers
• Loose lips could sink Tata's bid for Ford brands
• Selloff of once restricted stocks take a beating
• New Deutsche Post boss must decide on fate of DHL
• Steven Madden walks away from auction plans
• Activist ups stake in NY Times Co.
• Martha Stewart enters union with Emeril Lagasse
• Motorola gives Icahn more grist
• Clear Channel to air its grievances with Providenc
• Deal Digest: Feb. 19, 2008
• Deal International: News on Credit Suisse, Norther
• Soapbox: Follow the rules
• Buffett buys boost Kraft, GlaxoSmithKline
• Columbia PE & VC Conference: Distressed investing
• Politicians want to query Delta-Northwest on possi
• Syms encounters the wrath of Kahn
• Columbia PE & VC Conference: Putting best foot for
• First-quarter earnings could alter announced deals
• Columbia PE & VC Conference: LPs in tightening cre
• Midwest grounds some routes for savings
• Dealwatch: Kraft Foods
• Columbia PE & VC Conference: Africa could be home
• Previewing The Deal: Feb. 18, 2008
• Bear makes uphill run on buyout rumors
• Media Maneuvers: Another story about Britney
• Deal Digest: Feb. 15, 2008
• Deal International: News on Northern Rock-SRM and
• Delta pilots union sees consolidation ahead
• Utility dealmakers do power talk
• Markets falter ending three-day winning streak
• R2 vs. Icahn
• Markets sour on economy's uncertainty
• Wall Street research: No wonder there's a market c
• MBIA looks to lawmakers for help
• Grand Toys catches Wham-O
• Court gives Fortunoff Jewelry to NRDC
• Deal Digest: Feb. 14, 2008
• Report: TPG taps Singapore for new $6B fund
• Deal International: News on Migros Turk, UBS and m
• This date in deal history: IBM created
• Deal calendar: Feb. 14, 2008
• Deal Stocks follow Dow gains on retail report
• Syms gives in to activist campaign
• Soapbox: Codes of conducts
• Sprint Nextel continues to restructure
• Moguls fancy Macklowe's GM Building
• Another adoptive parent for Liz Claiborne's Ellen
• Helio hot for a sale?
• Pilots take the long route to a Delta-Northwest de
• Cupid's arrow hits markets, deal stocks a day earl
• Ambac to Buffett: Go back to Omaha
• This date in deal history: Milken's Drexel files C
• Legg Mason to Microsoft: Bump Yahoo! offer
• Deal International: News on UBS, BHP-Rio and more
• Deal calendar: Feb. 13, 2008
• Energy dealmakers survey M&A landscape
• Buffett bond reinsurance offer bolsters market, bu
• Washington could force CRA on investment banks
• Overleveraged Macklowe could lose NYC skyscrapers
• TH Lee, Goldman put $710M into MoneyGram
• Investors feast on Buffett with a side of deal sto
• FCC to approve DirecTV stake sale in two weeks
• IndyMac looks to tread alone after first annual lo
• A bumper crop of Canadian buyouts
• Would Chrysler sell Jeep to raise cash?
• CtW challenges BofA, WaMu directors
• Relational's Whitworth named to Sprint board
• Public relations M&A advisory league table
• Deal Digest: Feb. 12, 2008
• Deal International: News on BHP, Balfour Beatty an
• Deal calendar: Feb. 12, 2008
• Axcelis, Quintana shine amongst Deal Stocks' mixed
• Activist may elect directors to Presidential Realt
• Dealbreaker: Kerviel is not 'French'
• Hedges up NY Times stake, nominate slate
• No offer made to buy Air Canada, yet
• Broken telecom deals on a last-chance power drive
• Will IndyMac put up the 'For Sale' sign Tuesday?
• Troubled E*Trade sells unit
• Hersch goes limited
• A Kerviel accomplice? You decide
• Delta, Northwest will fly together, soon
• Friends sends Flowers to its advisers
• Yahoo! officially rejects Microsoft
• Deal International: News on SocGen, GCap and more
• Deal Digest: Feb. 11, 2008
• Lyceum closes 255M pound midmarket fund
• Deal calendar: The week of Feb. 11, 2008
• Soapbox: Global arbing
• PE Pipeline: Goodman Global looks good to go
• PE Pipeline: Underwriters await outcome of BCE sui
• Soapbox: Lessons learned
• PE Pipeline: Earnings news due on Clear Channel
• Delta could announce Northwest deal soon
• Dealscape's greatest hits: Week ending Feb. 8, 200
• York says Chrysler has no future
• Deal news propels Alliance Data, MBIA, XM shares
• DOJ flip-flopping after futures exchange uproar?
• Just in: Advisers in Biffa buyout
• Cox puts subprime, CDOs on SEC's 2008 agenda
• Deals of the year: The Deal, Feb. 11, 2008
• Media Maneuvers: The $8 billion man
• Bethune, Air Canada comment on airline merger rumo
• Reuters-Thomson concession good for PE?
• Deal Digest: Feb. 8, 2008
• Alliance Data shares halted, resolution to suit wi
• CIC goes low-profile with reported Flowers deal
• 2007 PR league tables: Joele Frank edges out Kekst
• Deal International: News on WestLB, CIC-JC Flowers
• M&A Calendar: Feb. 8, 2008
• Oliver Press still pushes for change at Phoenix Co
• Dow gains carry deal stocks
• Beyond Delta-Northwest, a look at who might fly to
• Dabah looks to move back into Children's Place
• Standing novation
• A perfect storm for distressed investing?
• How will lenient debt terms affect turnarounds?
• Discover loses its Goldfish
• Talk of 'peak oil' prompts land rush
• Mitt Romney drops bid, no dealmaker in White House
• Are junk bond defaults set to go off a cliff?
• Inverness-Matria: Merger agreement gives new detai
• Qualifying a deal: Inverness-Matria
• Sovereign, others off of Santander's shopping list
• Jerome Kerviel, nutty investor
• Deal Digest: Feb. 7, 2008
• Deal International: News on BHP, BBC Worldwide
• Biogen's Mullen puts his backfield in motion
• M&A Calendar: Feb. 7, 2008
• Microsoft-Yahoo roundup: Feb. 6, 2008
• Rio Tinto falls as Deal stocks turn bearish
• Dealmaking after the subprime crisis
• AOL: The orphan no one wants
• Playing the union card
• Defining CDOs and CLOs
• Review of the state of the CLO market
• Deals and culture in China
• M&A Calendar: Feb. 6, 2008
• Bewkes era begins at Time Warner with a fuzzy visi
• Stony Lane's Heisley on capital available for rest
• Being Carl Icahn
• Grant Thorton's Tang on decision makers in China
• Grassley calls a truce in tax war with PE, hedges
• RiskMetrics' 2008 Governance Conference: Lipton on
• Insights into China's bankruptcy laws
• Distressed investing in the Middle Kingdom
• Navigating China's bankruptcy laws
• Canadian banks weather current storm
• Deal Digest: Feb. 6, 2008
• Distressed debt and the 'big boy letter'
• Deal International: News on Ketel One, Grolsch and
• BHP sweetens Rio offer to $147B
• Microsoft-Yahoo roundup: Feb. 5, 2008
• Sam Zell brings new meaning to the term 'corporate
• Crystal Capital's Siskin on nontraditional lenders
• RiskMetrics' 2008 Governance Conference: A Dem win
• RiskMetrics' 2008 Governance Conference: Investors
• Pier 1 is sinking into the sea
• Jeff Zappone on the new complexities of workouts
• Brown Rudnick's Weisfelner on creditor committees
• Chrysler averts a wreck, signs Plastech agreement
• Do covenant-lite terms hamper restructuring?
• Bankrupt hedge fund Ritchie settles
• Standard & Poor's Robert Polenberg on CLOs
• Dealwatch: Home furnishing retailers
• RiskMetrics' 2008 Governance Conference: CEO pay-p
• Does Kuwait's Dar have its eyes on Sprint?
• Maria Bartiromo, banking whiz
• RiskMetrics' 2008 Governance Conference: Aflac's '
• Jerome Kerviel: Profits, invisible to the naked ey
• Deal Digest: Feb. 5, 2008
• Dealwatch: Unilever
• Microsoft-Yahoo roundup: Feb. 4, 2008
• Egads! Could News Corp. be Yahoo!'s white knight?
• Delta may fly away from deal talks
• Icahn looks to engineer Greenbrier-American Railca
• Buyout firms watching ITV
• CNET, like Yahoo! and IAC, may find itself a targe
• Plastech bankruptcy is Chrysler's latest speed bum
• Rocket maker GenCorp takes fire from activists
• House to review Microsoft's Yahoo! bid
• Deal Digest: Feb. 4, 2008
• Deal International: News on Punch Taverns, Rio Tin
• MAC, U.K.-style
• Tapping Spacs
• Most deal stocks track Dow gain for second straigh
• Microsoft-Yahoo roundup
• Collateralized damage
• Distressed Investing Conference 2008: The videos
• Icahn's latest target: J.C. Penney
• Media Maneuvers: School daze
• Deutsche to take over Macklowe's EOP properties
• The Deal, Feb. 4: All about hedge funds
• Just in: Advisers for Microsoft and Yahoo!
• Was Microsoft's Yahoo! bid really a surprise?
• Washington to weigh in on Microsoft-Yahoo!
• Microsoft bid makes Google a winner
• Microsoft bids $44.6B for Yahoo!

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