The Deal Professor Steven Davidoff has spotted some changes in how mergers are structured, leading him to believe the deal market is near a bottom. (DealBook)
In the meantime, the lack of deals -- along with other troubles -- reportedly has lead Goldman, Sachs & Co. to unscrew some light bulbs around the office -- even though it received a $10 billion capital injection from the Treasury Department. (Clusterstocks)
On the topic of Treasury Department capital injections, while some of the earliest recipients balked at taking the government's money, the latest crop of TARP recipients (see the full list here) remains on message about how taking the money is their patriotic duty. (Footnoted)
And while TARP is meant to avoid repeating the mistakes that lead to the Great Depression, history has a tendency of repeating itself. (FT Alphaville)
Evidently Rupert Murdoch was unaware that Dow Jones owned more than The Wall Street Journal until after he had bought the business. (Portfolio's Market Movers)
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