March 2009

Deal Stocks: Bulls march forward

	The Dow closed up 8% while the Nasdaq increased 8% for the month of March, recording its best month since the bottom of the 2002 bear market. Continue reading
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• Yankees, Mets feel the credit crunch
• IPIC invests $4.4B in Cepsa
• Sun-Times' latest story: Ch. 11
• Spark's Bijan Sabet on co-investing
• Canada PM wants banks to expand globally
• Google forms $100M VC fund
• J.P. Morgan's Dimon reminds markets of trouble
• Angel investing down, but not out
• Paper cuts: Forbes, Tampa Tribune and more
• Madoff centerpiece of scammer trading card set
• Clock ticks for Detroit
• Stimulus funds give telecoms a headache
• G-20 summit: Gauging the temperature
• Auto plan splits car state reps
• Roll Call: G20 round up
• Porsche drives off with $9B
• Banks to get 'large amount of assistance'
• CalPERS seeks to renegotiate terms with hedge fund
• General Growth feels the walls closing in
• Germany reels in Hypo RE
• The GM-effect flattens market
• CF Industries rejects Agrium's latest offer
• Tribune's Ch. 11 forces combined newsroom
• Buffett's banker leaving Goldman
• Sara Lee continues restructuring
• Morgan Stanley loses third FIG banker
• Advent to buy Fifth Third unit
• Lincoln Financial slammed for pulling FDIC app
• Nielsen may reshuffle Adweek
• Mavericks owner Cuban fined for tweet
• Livescribe inks $7.5M
• Obama gives GM 60 days
• Rio Tinto-BHP merger, part II
• DIP financings on record pace for 2009
• Madoff unit sold for $500K
• A few questions for the WSJ's future of finance
• Barclays says 'No, thanks' to toxic insurance
• Hiring: PNC seeks wealth advisers
• AIG bails out Wall Street (again)
• Finance Layoffs: UBS, J.P. Morgan and more
• Roll Call: We're Not the Boss of A.I.G
• Omni Nat'l closes; bank failures reach 21 in '09
• Should bank CEOs worry about Wagoner resignation?
• Profit-taking sucks air out of markets
• Transcend picks up TRS assets
• GLG's dollar executives
• Allen Stanford hires famed attorney DeGuerin
• MGM Mirage could fold
• GM exec's fill up on taxpayer's dime
• William Morris eyes next Endeavor
• Lance Armstrong covets Tour de France
• First bonus cuts, now 401(k)s
• Treasury investigates OTS chief
• Krugman and the return to Ozzie and Harriet
• Alan Greenspan goes into the dock (again)
• CD&R, Warburg walk from AIG auction
• National's auction no fun for Redstone
• Former WaMu employees' bonuses could be taxed
• Avigen vows to liquidate
• Finance Layoffs: Societe Generale, BoA and more
• Hiring: Standard Chartered seeks bankers
• Roll Call: Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and more
• Why Circuit City closed
• GM eyes another bailout
• Stars, Rangers latest teams for sale
• Art dealer to John McEnroe arrested
• Rio presents fallback plan
• Rising like it's 1987 all over again
• BofA's Premier to join Merrill Wealth
• TMZ making National Enquirer passe?
• BusinessWeek: Facebook seeks $100M
• Geithner seeks broad powers
• Citi awards AIG-sized bonuses too
• Second auto bailout brewing
• Geithner plan may not force banks to clean books
• Obama town hall: legalizing pot won't grow economy
• Riverside defends PE before Congress
• Google execs take $1 salaries, again
• Paper cuts: Atlanta Journal, NY Times and CBC
• Judge takes hard line on divestitures
• The resurgent Mr. Geithner
• Could the U.S. Postal Service go broke?
• Kessler on the banks and the big bear raid
• ExecTweets falls flat
• Tesla, Fisker driving on the wrong road?
• Senior lenders sue Freescale
• Treasury spells out plan for shutting firms
• Video: Should Krugman replace Geithner?
• AIG bonus blackmail and resignations
• Hachette's all-or-nothing sale may lead nowhere
• Roll Call: A Letter from Inside AIG
• Is there a future for the equity culture?
• Bulls sprint to the finish
• Intel's Otellini predicts IBM will buy Sun
• Sarkozy calls for bonus ban
• Taste-It Note to save the newspaper biz?
• Video: TeachStreet CEO on hacking education
• J.P. Morgan: The WaMu zombie slayer
• Porsche secures VW loan
• Madoff bet actually pays off
• Premier to buy Oilexco unit
• Quadrangle cans fund after personnel loses
• Citigroup sells Redecard stake
• Google testing the waters for Pixazza purchase?
• AIG employee's perspective
• GTCR launches platform for drugmaker rollup
• AIG's ILFC may get bids from PE
• Oppenheimer may immigrate to the U.S.
• Congress debates how to regulate nonbank financial
• Yahoo! cancels FareChase
• TouchTunes agrees to be acquired by SPAC
• Cardin proposes Newspaper Revitalization Act
• Political support for Suncor-PetroCan
• Finance Layoffs: Wells Fargo, HSBC and more
• WaMu zombies arguments on the rise
• Roll Call: Dear AIG, I quit
• Spread widens on Sunco, Petro-Canada deal
• Portfolio and its bubble solution
• When Time Warner sold WCW
• Deal stocks fall to reality
• Mining companies prospect for sovereign wealth
• FTC's Leibowitz may tap Berkeley's Farrell
• Corzine favors Geithner plan
• Carlyle approaches Innovation
• WebTV founder tackles games
• A hot summer awaits Marc Dreier
• Nycomed goes up for sale
• AIG's N.Y. location takes down sign
• Obama fills Treasury vacancies
• Populism, and a Goldman that wants to be free
• Bankers face sobering reality
• China's dollar worries increase
• Talking to the top cop
• The Deal Pipeline's bankruptcy league tables
• Gillett may sell Montreal Canadiens
• Hedge funds: $200B in withdrawals in '09?
• Under price pressure, Petro-Canada opts for sale
• Report: Goldman plans ICBC share sale
• Hachette Filipacchi puts titles on the block
• Small shops hiring on Wall Street
• AIG employees return bonuses and quit
• Roll Call: Fed rescue programs
• Market euphoria greets Geithner plan
• Axcient raises $6M Series A
• Suncor to buy Petro-Canada
• Industry Ventures raises $265M secondary VC fund
• Finance Layoffs: UBS and Mitsubishi
• Geithner ignites market rally
• CF sweetens bid for Terra
• J.P. Morgan isn't buying jets after all
• CNBC to Geithner: Is the U.S. like Venezuela?
• AIG: What's in a name?
• Aide: Obama might nix bonus taxes
• Pimco gets behind Geithner plan
• FDIC attacked by zombie WaMu
• Ex-Bear Stearns execs launch Stone Key
• Geithner unveils bad asset plan
• Moelis & Co. adds restructuring pro
• Oracle to absorb Relsys
• Three more banks and two credit unions fail
• 60 Minutes Video: Obama on Wall Street bonuses
• Roll Call: My Plan for Bad Bank Assets and others
• Hunting for rotten bankers at RBS
• Does Geithner's job depend on toxic asset plan wor
• Treasury Department's Public Private Partnership
• Tribune to Beatty: Give back Dick Tracy
• Bank failures could cost FDIC $100B: CBO
• ThinkFire's Hoffman on IP dealmaking in the downtu
• Lehman sells tchotchkes to pay off creditors
• AIG's penny stock status to return?
• Crittenden's new job at Citi
• Help wanted: GMAC looks to hire in N.C.
• Citi Memo: Pandit on 'a constructive industry comp
• Madoff is staying in jail
• The synergistic apotheosis of Simon Johnson
• AIG employees flee or go into hiding
• Curtains for SpiralFrog
• AbitibiBowater flirts with bankruptcy
• Gennum's asset shuffle
• The bonus tax and the problem of bailout banks
• Layoffs at TheStreet.com more bad news for Cramer
• Steel Partners offers concessions on IPO plan
• Dodd on the hot seat
• FTC victory offers road map for future challenges
• Finance Layoffs: Stanford Financial, Pacific Capit
• Greenbrier to sell historic resort
• Roll Call: Obama on 'The Tonight Show' and others
• Dodd wary of new powers for Fed
• Financial Week: Congratulations and lamentations
• Party like it's 2009, says Y Combinator
• BAA slams divestiture order
• Can't bank on the banks
• Could HP catch some Sun?
• Topic Center Spotlight: Crisis on Wall Street
• Goldman to buy Universal Japan
• Could the AIG lynch mob topple capitalism?
• A history of expensive offices at Citigroup
• How will Wattles' Blockbuster story end?
• Citi considers reverse stock split
• Citi and MS: Desperately seeking shares
• Senate panel grills regulators
• AIG's black box and the problem of systemic risk
• Mickey Mouse meets Wall Street
• Sun in IBM's crosshairs
• House to vote on tax for bailout bonuses
• Citi execs spend $10M to redecorate office
• Can Platinum bring luster to the Union-Tribune?
• Will AIG claim Tim Geithner?
• IBM-Sun deal may help KKR
• FSA chief pushes stricter rules
• When Ford almost bought BMW
• Ontario sets up fund to aid VC
• The bulls ride on the Fed's dime
• Biggest Idearc investor gets big surprise
• Australia to review foreign rules
• Charges against Peck dropped
• The failure of 'too big to fail'
• Liddy: AIG derivative architects already gone
• AIG bonus babies outed
• Geithner seeks to recoup AIG bonuses
• Video: Infusionsoft CEO on how he raised Series B
• Madoff's auditor charged with securities fraud
• IBM in talks to acquire Sun Microsystems
• Bonus-cut bankers defecting UBS
• N.J. adds to Lehman litigation load
• Spitzer: The GS, BofA and JPM conspiracy theory
• 'Layoff,' the game
• BofA's wallet may be full enough to repay TARP
• Asarco revises reorganization plan
• Liddy: Looking out for us?
• Paulson offers up a regulatory reform plan
• Will Grundhofer replace Pandit?
• Rachesky has Icahn looking over shoulder
• House committee tees up on AIG's Liddy
• Xmark pressures Icagen on sale
• Fed's TALF drives off with Nissan
• Citigroup (NYSE: C) helps out at Treasury
• Ackman to kick down Target's doors
• Cell Thera to explore alternatives
• Testing day for Chinese capitalism
• EC promises financial 'tough love'
• Dennis Woodside replaces Tim Armstrong at Google
• AIG starts layoffs; some flee with cash
• Lions Gate hires new guard
• Topic Center Spotlight: Detroit Breakdown
• 'The Daily Show' examines short-selling
• Dealmaking updates St. Patty's Day style
• Banks give JJB more time
• Need a job? Check out career site Path 101
• Congress prepares 100% taxes for AIG
• Oprah for car czar?
• LinkedIn diverts Reid Hoffman
• Ackman takes aim at Target
• Bank Watch: State Street's CEO got $29M bonus?
• Grassley to AIG: Drop dead
• Wattles amasses Blockbuster stake
• If Howard Lindzon were CEO of AOL
• FASB offers new valuation leniency
• Looking for bonus loopholes
• Getting out of the AIG bonuses
• Simon Johnson, the media and the IMF
• Obama lashes out at AIG bonuses
• Canadian banks turning down government aid
• Goldman bails out its own
• Q&A: David Stern on Clearstone's backing Apture
• Fortress aims to raise new funds amid losses
• SBA plan focuses too much on loans
• When Iridium called it quits
• Liddy testifies on bailout, bonuses at AIG
• KPE disposes of some assets
• Germany prepares to seize Hypo
• Rally was too good to last
• Presses stopped at Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Finance Layoffs: UBS to cut 5,000
• Astellas drops CV Therapeutics bid
• Why did AIG pay its counterparties?
• AIG revelations cloud rollout
• Quattro snares $10M
• U.S. government: Give me that bonus back!
• Wells Fargo's Kovacevich: Stress tests 'asinine'
• Odds of an MGM bankruptcy are high
• PE comes of age, as industry shrinks?
• AIG reveals where bailout cash went
• NY Waterway sends SOS, again
• Tang to oversee Evercore, Citic fund
• Google cozies up to DOJ
• Video: Bernanke on PE and economic recovery
• Summers defends U.S. economic policies
• SocGen CEO talks of crisis, capital
• Candover may seek buyer
• EXCLUSIVE: Roger Ehrenberg leads $1.25 M in Domdex
• Crown scraps Cannery Casino deal
• Recipe for Girl Scout cookies leaves out the Web
• Babcock & Brown files bankruptcy
• Layoffs on Sesame Street
• Bank Watch: Lewis says BofA to pass stress test
• Maddow on Madoff: SEC inept or evil?
• Report: Fiat, Peugeot to merge
• Things aren't fun and games at Six Flags
• A liquidator takes goods into his own hands
• Finance Layoffs: BofA, Regions, Fidelity and more
• Berkshire's rating cut, but Buffett's salary stays
• Jack Welch, champion of stakeholders
• Lehman fund-of-funds changes name
• Obama's fall guy: Geithner?
• J.P. Morgan's John Chrin goes back to school
• Parsons: Citi doesn't need more TARP funds
• Pressure mounts at Bank United
• Lawmakers to push fair value fix
• Brawl Street: Jon Stewart vs. Jim Cramer
• Is the Alliance Boots-Phoenix rumor true?
• Lions Gate resists Icahn's big plans
• Genentech opens a new chapter
• Enel begins giant fundraising
• Ameriprise out of race for AIG Adviser unit
• Signs of the Apocalypse: The four horsemen of Wall
• Cherney on PE investments in portfolio debt
• Gilead agrees to buy CV
• Report: Cohen not going to Treasury
• How to survive a meltdown
• Haagen-Dazs downsizing its pints
• Is Eli Lilly the next pharma to be swallowed?
• Weill, Greenberg: Barely billionaires
• Collision repair estimators cancel merger
• Silverstein seeks help for WTC site
• KKR bests Blackstone on Forbes list
• Bank Watch: Giving back TARP funds
• Roche, Genentech reach deal
• eBay's PayPal pleases Wall Street
• Transera dials up $17M
• Congressmen push FASB's Herz into a corner
• GE Capital's silver lining in rating downgrade
• Is Bristol-Myers the next pharma target?
• S&P dims GE's credit rating
• Congressman: Time to act on mark-to-market
• Geithner presses G-20 leaders
• Merrill Lynch's mini-exodus of bankers
• Herbst Gaming, lenders agree on plan
• Advisers in $46.8B Roche-Genentech deal
• Cuomo and Merrill: A love story
• Madoff refuses to name names
• Kashkari predicts broad participation in asset pur
• DriverSide raises $5.3M
• Commerzbank considers asset sales
• Virgin America's turbulent times ahead?
• J.P. Morgan follows Citi's lead
• BA, Iberia near agreement
• Stanford blows off SEC
• Private equity holdings in Moody's basement
• Obama, the Dow's least favorite president so far
• Finance Layoffs: Stanford Financial and more
• Are credit default swaps on Treasuries for suckers
• Bank Watch: What's BofA's worth?
• Deal resume of Credit Suisse's new hire
• 'Uptick' rule likely to return
• Study: VC returns beat PE returns
• Google's new ad tech
• TALF piques private equity interest
• Bernanke and the systemic regulatory scheme
• Pharma deals feature financing outs
• Derivatives losses for 5 U.S. banks total $1.2T
• Merrill defections continue
• Varney may revisit DOJ mergers
• Canwest Global facing credit crisis?
• Activision CEO offers hint of Midway deal?
• Amlyn and shareholders feel strain
• Green For All's Van Jones to White House
• Maurel & Prom to sell Colombian unit
• As Citi goes, so does the Street
• Moody's: 283 dead men walking
• Madoff to plead guilty Thursday
• Opry owner settles with investors
• Brokers flee Smith Barney
• PE dealmakers: Healthcare opportunities exist
• More antitrust scrutiny for pharmas
• RV makers hit the road to Ch. 11
• Bank Watch: Citi is up as gov't mulls future
• Insurance servicers merger halted
• Mintz Levin's Berson on healthcare reform
• OMGPOP (Iminlikewithyou) raises $5M
• Will Obama's healthcare reform work?
• Psilos Group's Waxman on controlling healthcare co
• Wells Fargo's Stumpf gets a cool $13.8M
• OrbiMed's Sam Isaly on healthcare M&A
• Sullivan & Cromwell's Pagnani on biotech M&A
• PE pros on healthcare dealmaking
• Dealmaker sees healthcare M&A slowdown
• Bernanke: Fix financial regulation
• Apax's Gumina comments on Obama health reform
• Barclays to buy Bear Wagner
• Roche nears deal for Genentech
• Nvidia formalizes investment strategy
• 3i to sell VC portfolio
• Q&A: Roger Ehrenberg on startup shutdowns
• Icahn may have big plans for Lions Gate
• Madoff trustee to pay claims
• Will Pandit's optimism lure investors?
• Merck breaks mold with Schering-Plough tie-up
• BNP resurrects Fortis deal
• James Bacchus on protectionist dangers
• Buffett: The economy has fallen off a cliff
• Deal Stocks: Is M&A Monday back?
• Citi and BofA CDSs reach record highs
• CF rejects Agrium's bid
• BofA withdraws job offers
• Senators push for GM bankruptcy
• Merck to buy Schering-Plough
• Bank Watch: Capital One cuts dividend
• Trial delayed in chem merger spat
• Deutsche M&A chief Manas leaves
• Finance Layoffs: Stanford Financial, BofA and more
• The pros and cons of a new Glass-Steagall
• PE write-downs concern investors
• Citi and Shelby: Friends no more
• Merrill Lynch's subpoena party
• Bair on FDIC funds as 17th bank fails
• Light at the end of the tunnel?
• Fleshing it out
• Deal Stocks take their meds
• Germany softens line on Opel rescue
• ICE beats CME to start CDS index
• Ann Taylor leaves investors hanging
• Magna Entertainment gallops into Ch. 11
• Gambling industry goes bust
• Madoff is heading for a plea?
• CBS may need more credit to pay off debt
• Bank Watch: BofA stock to dive next 6 months?
• Deadpool: ManiaTV off the air
• Citigroup to withdraw from Japan?
• Goldman media ace Ravitch quits
• FTC, Whole Foods finally settle
• Squelching a rumor about a music deal
• The babble of the Dow oracles
• FDIC 'insolvency': More scare than there
• Financial journalism and its critics
• Final bids due for AIG's broker-dealer units
• Worst of times for NYT's Sulzburger
• Anger rises over AIG bailout, Fed stonewalling
• Rodgin Cohen talking bank bailouts
• TPG, Apollo offer cash for Harrah's debt
• Bank Watch: Wells Fargo slashes dividend
• Hacking Education at Union Square Ventures
• AB InBev to sell assets
• GM presses for European aid
• Quick-sale DIPs are proliferating
• Candover runoff scare
• Hiring: Cantor Fitzgerald seeks 25 i-bankers
• Finance Layoffs: Wells Fargo, HSBC and more
• Terra rejects offer from CF Industries
• Portfolio's Lipman on how to buy a house
• BofA digs in Merrill bonus flap
• CDS holders push hard for distressed defaults
• U.S. Bancorp, Northern Trust to pay back TARP
• Vidyo raises $15M
• AIG postpones Alico talks
• SEC to review whistleblower policies
• Video: Meet Dan Porter, Iminlikewithyou's grownup
• Ford seeks to retire $10.4B in debt
• KfW is world's safest bank, Germany's 'dumbest'
• Citigroup breaks the buck
• Slim, Icahn and Malone lead media debt feast
• Activist CtW: Fire BofA chief Ken Lewis, or else
• Auditor: GM could collapse
• Bank Watch: Citigroup sinks below $1
• FDIC could go bust
• Shareholder activists go it alone, side-by-side
• Virgin Media taps UBS for auction
• Life Sciences shares surge
• LCH.Clearnet aims to buy out investors
• Enterprise takes Advantage
• Merrill sues Deutsche over poaching bankers
• Dresdner bankers sue for bonuses
• Jon Stewart roasts Rick Santelli, spares Nocera
• Two ex-Carlyle VCs join Jafco Ventures
• CDS clearinghouse picks up steam
• AIG may take life insurance biz public
• UBS chairman to step down
• AIG gets offers for Asian unit
• Blackstone's ho-hum debt write-downs
• LBO firms primed for infrastructure deals
• Resorts take the big vacation into Ch. 11
• Aloha Airlines must redo IP auction
• Fed's Beige Book offers bleak outlook
• Crain hangs up on RCR Wireless
• Goldman leads layoffs Down Under
• Nationalize PE? Bloomberg voices the absurd
• Obama unveils mortgage relief plan
• Activision Blizzard to spend its spare change
• Merrill Lynch's $209M bonus babies
• Blockbuster blasted by bankruptcy fears
• Innovation at risk
• Bank Watch: BofA's credit rating lowered
• U.S. to launch TALF
• Bartz to take Yahoo! negotiations private
• Roche tries soft touch
• Broadpoint, Gleacher to merge
• Terra Firma still backs EMI
• Finance Layoffs: Berkshire Hathaway and more
• Thomas Friedman discovers the economic crisis
• Recession's end? Six signs to look for
• AIG's mystery counterparties
• Blockbuster's marquee may read: Bankruptcy
• Automakers stall on Wall Street
• Genachowski's nomination to FCC official
• Report: K+S eyes Compass
• Will state pension costs bankrupt us?
• Video: Germack on accounting practices
• BCE to buy Circuit City unit
• NPR CEO says nonprofit model not for NY Times
• GM moves for Delphi subsidiary
• Wooden Ships: David Crosby yacht for sale
• Video: Jon Stewart takes off on Twitter
• Bank Watch: BofA CEO Lewis gets pay cut
• VeriSign sells unit to TNS
• Deutsche poaches more Merrill bankers
• Could Penthouse be closing its doors?
• AIG bailouts frustrate Bernanke
• Buffett on the evils of private equity
• Watch Geithner's House testimony
• Index Ventures raises new early-stage fund
• Can we put AIG back together again?
• No end in sight for bailouts
• Fed rolls out TALF on March 25
• Watch Bernanke's Senate testimony
• Listed loan vehicles see red all around
• Looking forward to AIG bailout Part IV
• Media execs bullish about M&A
• Spreads on GE Capital swaps hit distressed levels
• Knight Vinke claims HSBC victory
• Candover takes a huge hit
• HSBC abandons Household
• FDIC's Bair: Basel II risk assumptions half-baked
• SEC amends Stanford complaint
• Vanguard bucks trend with no layoffs, so far
• Topic Center Spotlight: Technology
• BofA's Lewis: Merrill-related bailout a 'tactical
• SGI doesn't want to be the third wheel
• NYCSeed backs Path 101, PlaceVine
• Video: Foley's Garai on tech startup survival
• U.S. to sink $30B more into AIG
• AIG's Liddy points the finger at Greenberg
• Bank Watch: Dow dives to 6,825
• AIG's conference call quote roundup
• Thiel: Facebook valuation soured Twitter deal
• Global markets plunge further
• Freddie Mac CEO lasts six months
• Yahoo!'s 2008 legal tab
• Finance layoffs: HSBC, Citi and more
• Old Mutual prepares auction of Nedbank
• VIX signaling a possible two-year bear market
• AIG gets $30B in life support

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