March 2008

Deal Stocks inch forward behind timid market

The markets finished up slightly as investors digested Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's blueprint for reform for the financial markets. Financial Deal Stocks made some progress while companies such as Monsanto... Continue reading

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• For Monsanto, cash is the currency for deals
• Lack of details from Delta, Northwest good news
• Technology marches on. Will Ampex?
• Ashton Kutcher joins William Morris, Ledecky as de
• Reform talks have little impact on financial Deal
• The historical Lehman: No Bear
• KKR closes latest fund with $17.6B
• Credit crunch crushes advisory fees in first quart
• Deal Calendar: March 31, 2008
• Roll Call: March 31, 2008
• Deal Digest: March 31, 2008
• Deal International: March 31, 2008
• Deal Stocks end week with a fizzle
• IAC's Diller wins court battle with Liberty Media'
• Dealscape's greatest hits and wackiest rumors: Wee
• Delta, Northwest deal still possible
• The Deal: Week of March 31
• Majoras unaware of EU antitrust review issues
• Maguire Properties abandons sale as markets flatli
• Clear Channel lawyer Joe Jamail's Texas-style depo
• Judge: Bear Stearns execs have to give 90 days not
• Roll Call: March 28, 2008
• JetBlue founder Neeleman to launch Brazilian airli
• Zippy, fraud and J.P. Morgan
• Rerun: The Daily Deal's Clear Channel coverage
• Media Maneuvers: Bear skin
• Wall Street's villains: Cayne, Greenberg
• Deal Digest: March 28, 2008
• Deal International: March 28, 2008
• Tech selloff catalyst for Deal Stock decline
• Cayne dumps Bear shares
• Novak: SEC's Cox as McCain's running mate
• Goldman's Ken Hitchner on healthcare M&A
• European banks go green
• ABA meeting: FTC acts on mergers, DOJ stays silent
• Did blogger Jackson help Icahn?
• Icahn's patience paid off with Motorola
• Markets mixed as investors hunger for ConAgra
• Paulson: Empower the Fed or not?
• Roll Call: March 27, 2008
• Today's spin: Is New Century the new Enron?
• Auto giants vie for Yugo maker?
• Canadian banks scouting for buying opportunities
• China's interest in Dresdner could lead to Deutsch
• DOJ: Cartels are criminal!
• Deal Digest: March 27, 2008
• Deal International: March 27, 2008
• Clear Channel wins restraining order in Texas
• The Clear Channel dealbreaker revealed
• Deal Stocks succumb to pessimistic economic report
• Bear Stearns lawsuits: Who are these guys anyway?
• Clear Channel, PE firms poised to sue lenders over
• SPACs gain momentum with J.W. Childs filing
• Whitney's Citi prediction could be precursor to Sm
• ABA meeting: FTC's Kovacic to be named Majoras' re
• Deal trouble for Clear Channel, Take-Two as market
• Morgan Stanley pulls China International Capital a
• Bear Stearns shareholders file suit
• Contention emerges in Ziff Davis bankruptcy case
• ABA meeting: DOJ OK'd XM-Sirius based on future te
• Good bubbles from bad: A new Fed parlor game
• Deal digest: March 26, 2008
• Motorola heeds calls for breakup
• Soapbox: Start your engines
• Deal International: March 26, 2008
• Clear Channel's LBO on the brink
• Stocks slip, but could have been worse
• Dimon asks rivals not to poach Bear employees
• Fate of Tropicana AC hangs in the balance
• Aloha Airlines says hello to bankruptcy for second
• N.J. bank merger outsizes Bear deal for one week
• Despite Ziff Davis trouble, Willis Stein to raise
• Monsanto sprouts despite lifeless market
• Temasek puts $100M into Chinese gaming company
• Roll Call: March 25, 2008
• Deal Digest: March 25, 2008
• Tata nears finish line in race for Ford's luxe bra
• Soapbox: Think globally, act locally
• Now the Fed faces the tough part: The politics
• Glass Lewis supports Morgan Stanley's Mack
• Bearer of good news on the Street
• Are investors preparing for a thaw in debt markets
• Bear Stearns employees turn to Facebook
• Rabble babble: Could J.P. Morgan up offer to $20?
• Bear Stearns gets S&P ratings boost
• Bear Stearns support group forming
• Will Barack Obama replace Kevin Martin with a deal
• Soapbox: A house divided
• U.S. Justice Department approves Sirius-XM merger
• Soapbox: Bad times, good times
• Bear Stearns merchandise floods eBay
• Bear Stearns shareholders want more
• Bear runs like bull, pushing markets to the sky
• Ford, Sears destined to disappear?
• Analyst: Cablevision to buy Newsday to browbeat sh
• Roll Call: March 24, 2008
• How much is J.P. Morgan really willing to pay for
• Deal Digest: March 24, 2008
• The Deal, week of March 24: Bear etc.
• Former Countrywide president Kurland's mortgage re
• Singapore, Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds agree
• Blackstone-Alliance moves one step closer
• Welsh Carson raising $4B fund
• Still wind beneath Delta-Northwest wings
• The cryptic auction of Friedman's
• Retail outlets headed back to Disney
• J.P. Morgan to offer Bear bankers incentive
• Lehman vet to start $1B mortgage bond hedge fund
• Media Maneuvers: To catch a banker
• Soapbox: Funds found permissible under antitrust l
• Deal Diary: J.P. Morgan-Bear Stearns advisers
• Bear Stearns Merchant Banking: Bloodied, not destr
• Signs of a bottom?
• The ins and outs of the Fed's open window
• Risk arb update: J.P. Morgan-Bear Stearns
• Roll Call: March 20, 2008
• The Deal's Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium: Health
• Deal International: News on PepsiCo, Credit Suisse
• Next chapter for Borders: The auction block?
• Belusconi and Air France-KLM headed for collision
• Bear Stearns Merchant Banking's John Howard commen
• The Deal's Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium: Licen
• The Deal's Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium: Regula
• The Deal's Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium: Dealma
• The Deal's Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium: Corpo
• Bear Stearns: 'We're still in business'
• Terra Firma's Guy Hands threatens to abandon U.K.
• The Deal's Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium: What's
• Barington nominates four to Dillard's board
• Roll Call: March 19, 2008
• The Canadian commercial paper crisis: Blame the U.
• The Deal's Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium: Keynot
• Markets cautious as investors look to Visa
• The Deal's Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium: Sector
• The Deal's Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium: Impact
• The Deal's Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium: 12 Mon
• The other Bear Stearns: M&A adviser
• Buffett's second career: Acting
• Activists launch board fight at Office Depot
• Bear amends bylaws with legal fees in mind
• Trouble in PE land
• Reports: Takeda mulls $5B deal for Abbott's TAP st
• Litigation shouldn't upset BCE buyout
• Deal Stocks ride tidal wave that lifts markets
• Late-night levity in light of Bear Stearns
• Powermate, Shapes/Arch: Other financial news besid
• Skepticism abounds on Lehman's future
• Two views of Alan Schwartz's future
• Message boards light up as Bear Stearns' shares ri
• Bear Stearns Bump: How markets are treating other
• Healthcare Symposium: Podcast with Pricewaterhouse
• Deal Stocks, markets bleed green on expected rate
• Bear Stearns lawsuits start rolling in
• Earnings confirm 'Lehman is not Bear'
• Tech banker Frank Quattrone is back
• Bear Stearns' impact on IPOs
• Deal International: News on Citic, SocGen, Norther
• Fed's open window likely to draw regulatory scruti
• Bear Stearns Merchant Banking reportedly weighing
• Report: Bear's No. 2 shareholder seeks to block sa
• Did J.P. Morgan's Dimon get a Bear in the rough?
• RWE seeks to be part of U.K.'s nuclear solution
• Markets saved for a day, crisis averted
• Eastside Holdings is first to sue Bear Stearns
• What now for Bear Stearns' PE, VC affiliates?
• Harbinger wins seats on New York Times' board
• JP Morgan still has investment grade credit
• Dartmouth Professor on Subprime meltdown and Bear
• For Bear Stearns, Ritchie bankruptcy filing is wor
• Carlyle Capital winds down
• Clear Channel moves away from its LBO price
• Markets in 'Bearish' mood as H&R Block, Weyerhaeus
• Random thoughts on the world after Bear Stearns
• Bristol Myers tests the thirst for Enfamil auction
• Advisers to Weyerhaeuser and International Paper
• Bear Stearns' Cayne abridged weekend
• J.P. Morgan-Bear advisers - Just added Skadden nam
• Bear, Lehman shares pounded early
• Bear Stearns deal heightens Lehman jitters
• Market reactions to Bear Stearns, J.P. Morgan deal
• Deal calendar: the week of March 17
• Bear investors left holding pennies
• JP Morgan, Bear Stearns conference call recap
• J.P. Morgan buys Bear for $2 per share
• Clear Channel closes TV station deal with Providen
• Soapbox: Ultradiligence
• Soapbox: Putting hedge funds on notice
• Deal Stocks bearish as Bear tumbles
• LPs begin wiring in cash for Clear Channel LBO
• Solving the mortgage crisis through bankruptcy ref
• No resolution in Clear Channel-Providence case
• Dealscape's greatest hits and wackiest rumors: Wee
• Corporate dealmaking in The Deal, week of March 17
• Roll Call: Bear Stearns
• Did the Fed help trip up Carlyle Capital?
• Will healthcare LBOs return in 2008?
• IAC vs. Liberty Media: No decision?
• 'Bear' market weighs down Deal Stocks
• Wells Fargo could add National City to its map
• Media Maneuvers: Little big men
• Hopefully Cayne paid cash for his apartment
• 'Da Merc' versus Bernanke in a fight: Who would wi
• Bear Stearns craters on capital injection news
• Deal International: News on Evraz, Volkswagen and
• Deal calendar: March 14, 2008
• Markets make comeback, but Deal Stocks see no clar
• Analyst's 'Iron Man' comment offers insight into E
• CBS has its eye on the Weather Channel
• Legends Gaming: A losing gamble
• Zagat auction update
• Bond markets wreak havoc on hedge funds
• Citi analyst: Aetna could acquire sickly peers
• Markets back in negative territory despite media d
• IAC attorneys testify ahead of Diller
• Gibson Guitar acts on Activision
• Cumulus buyout easing to a close
• Roll Call: March 13, 2008
• Cramer: 'Eliot screwed up'
• Carlyle Capital close to collapse
• Deal International: News on Carlyle Capital, Arcel
• Charter shores up liquidity
• As markets fall, some Deal Stocks follow
• Apollo spending $1B on LBO debt
• CtW seeks nay vote for Mack, other Morgan Stanley
• Time Warner Cable: 'If it gets too rich, we're out
• Grace: The last asbestos malingerer
• European focus: Growth in domestic retail banking
• Lawndale wins another Sparton battle
• The way to a dealmaker's wallet
• Roll Call: March 12, 2008
• Al Gore's Generation Investment fund capped at $5B
• Deal International: News on Colonial, GdF-Suez and
• Deal Stocks get needed lift from Fed plan
• Diller's attorneys press their case
• Bear Stearns and Levine Leichtman raising new PE f
• Food deals highlight strong domestic midmarket dea
• Who might Southwest merge with?
• SFW Capital closes $300M midmarket fund
• Take-Two's troubles mount
• BofA to move forward with Countrywide deal
• Deal Stocks run with the bulls
• Unsecureds, Fedders fight over access
• Liberty Media vs. IAC: 'Why would Barry do this?'
• Lehman vs. Bear Stearns
• Roll Call: March 11, 2008
• Requiem for Eliot Spitzer: Why he failed on Wall S
• Deal Digest: March 11, 2008
• Deal International: News on Friends-Flowers, Liver
• Deal calendar: March 11, 2008
• Deal Stocks were home sick
• XO's Icahn drop
• Bain makes capital call for Clear Channel LBO
• Schadenfreude alert: Eliot Spitzer and his Wall St
• In bankruptcy, seeing how the other half lives
• Virgin Media not on private equity's radar
• Nationwide Financial surges on M&A rumor as market
• Tough times sink Blackstone's stock
• Sun-Times is the latest media outlet targeted by a
• Carl Icahn gives CBS's 60 Minutes his time
• Roll Call: March 10, 2008
• Goldman names new head of M&A
• Carlyle Capital's margin calls shoot past $400M
• Deal International: News on Carlyle Capital, Steel
• Deal calendar: the week of March 10
• Soapbox: Accounting for REITs
• PE Pipeline: Clear Channel lenders turn out
• Soapbox: Restoring Value
• PE Pipeline: Alliance Data Systems
• Sprint-Nextel debt troubles pushing it to the brin
• Fake dealmaker Roxford has the stones to ignore SE
• Apollo and W Capital cap big fundraising week
• Real estate and SWFs: The Deal, week of March 10
• Bankruptcy Insider puts Thornburg on notice
• Delphi may not get a better deal than GM's
• Garbitrage: Verax Capital growing
• PE Pipeline: Strine on specific performance
• Media Maneuvers: Relentless sunshine
• Sullivan & Cromwell's Rodgin Cohen on sovereign we
• Credit crunch blocks football league's kickoff
• The rise of SPACs leads to changes on Wall Street
• Blog Roll: March 7, 2008
• Deal Digest: March 7, 2008
• Ambac raises $1.5B
• Deal International: News on Carlyle Capital, Murdo
• VCs worried about energy crisis
• Missed margin calls cripple Carlyle Capital
• Deal calendar: March 7, 2008
• Mortgage worries pull down market, Deal Stocks
• IBM rules out megadeals
• Jupitermedia CEO Meckler offers insight into Ziff
• Delta-Northwest pilots talks take off again
• GM funding may give Delphi upper hand
• Al Gore rolling in the green
• I want to work in PE when I grow up
• Is TH Lee prepping to close on Clear Channel?
• Deal Stocks flounder as markets show no conviction
• Rocket maker GenCorp settles with insurgents
• 3Com still hoping for Bain buyout
• Move over Playboy, Penthouse plans IPO
• Carlyle Capital misses margin calls
• Roll Call: March 6, 2008
• Icahn ups Motorola stake to 6.3%
• Deal Digest: March 6, 2008
• Deal International: News on Carrefour, Carlyle Cap
• Cumulus buyers want credit agreement changed
• Deal calendar: March 6, 2008
• Garbitrage: Vallourec turns tables
• CLO market isn't dead, it's just sleeping
• Markets comeback, but Ambac still a big worry
• Would Ch. 11 really help Tropicana's dicey situati
• Credit crunch a boon for midmarket and turnaround
• Garbitrage: Maguire's sale may be close
• Ziff Davis domain names
• Ziff Davis files for bankruptcy
• Bulls pull Deal Stocks up as markets advance
• VCs join PE firms in raising new funds
• Dealwatch: Department stores
• Fasten your seat belts, we're traveling through a
• Sirius-XM future remains cloudy
• Nine months in, no end to credit crunch
• Ambac trading halted on pending news
• Midmarket consumer products M&A in tailspin
• Roll call: March 5, 2008
• Weather Channel auction awash in bidders
• Deal Digest: March 5, 2008
• Dealwatch: Soccer
• Deal calendar: March 5, 2008
• Deal International: News on Eurotunnel, ABC Learni
• Soapbox: A tale of two IPOs
• Dealwatch: Banking M&A
• Deal Stocks mixed as Dow rebounds from midday sell
• Timing is everything: Time Warner-Cablevision deal
• Barington seeks list of Dillard's shareholders
• Midmarket transactions dominate last week's top do
• New Mountain is the latest PE firm to raise fund
• Pequot Capital plans to spin out its VC unit
• Juxtaposing Buffett's M&A success and disappointme
• The calm before the Diebold storm
• Markets take beating leaving Deal Stocks black and
• Viking Drilling still over a barrel despite high o
• Split plan not in the books for Ambac
• Another sovereign wealth cash call for Citigroup?
• Dubai International to ramp up Middle Eastern inve
• Harbinger eyes Spectrum for possible buy
• Deal Digest: March 4, 2008
• Deal International: News on Dubai International, L
• Dean's glass half empty or half full?
• Off the block: Univision Music Group, Global Motor
• New on the block: Compton Petroleum, Freemont Gene
• PwC predicts strategic buyers will dominate in 200
• Deal Stocks slump as broader markets slip
• HRJ looks to score with real estate fund
• Lord Black reports to prison; Rigas to stay in pri
• Take-Two shareholder brings new meaning to activis
• Third Point retreating from Cypress Semi fight?
• Silver Lake, HitecVision close big PE funds
• Buffett's M&A 'turn ons'
• Proxy Governance recommends Biglari's Steak n Shak
• Will Chancery rulings send Tropicana spinning?
• Carlyle Group bags UBS' Sarkozy
• Goldman Sachs nicknamed Berkshire's Marmon deal 'I
• Social Security should give thanks to Buffett's de
• Deal Digest: March 3, 2008
• Deal International: News on Volkswagen, Escada and
• United Technologies bids $2.3B for Diebold
• Soapbox: China primer
• Soapbox: Surveying the best deals

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