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Stocks Up Ahead Of Earnings Deluge

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:52:34 GMT

For those of us of a certain vintage, today is the 22nd anniversary of Black Monday, when our first fling with computerised trading ended in tears! But that was then and the market has no memory, so fast forward to a week when approximately 25% of the S&P 500 rare slated to report. So far this season, top-line numbers have been encouraging risk appetite: Of the companies which have reported, two thirds are beating on revenues. Last quarter, only 40% of the S&P outperformed on revenues.[More...]

Schwarzman: Worst Is Behind Private Equity

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:53:24 GMT

The credit crisis hit the private equity business extremely hard, as the seizure of credit markets made deal making a near impossibility. Not to mention the fact that companies already owned were often worth far less than the acquisition price. It is not too much of stretch to say that private equity is leveraged to the general health of the economy; making good times better, but bad times even worse. That is why it is great news to hear that Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of the largest private equity firm in the world, saying that he is seeing, “more than green shoots of recovery.” Schwarzman spoke reassuringly about his industries prospects to at a conference in Dubai, according to Reuters news wire.[More...]

Wall Street Ends Mostly Higher As Commodity Shares Gain, Bank Of America (NYSE:BAC) Rallies

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:50:09 GMT

US stocks finished mostly higher on Monday as a weak dollar boosted commodity prices, thus sending energy stocks higher.[More...]

China Extends String Of Oil Acquisitions In Ghana Deal

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:09:42 GMT

China is stepping up its efforts to secure access to more of the world’s oil by teaming its China National Offshore Oil Corp. (NYSE ADR: CEO) with the Ghana National Petroleum Corp. (GNPC) to bid for a stake in a giant oil find off West Africa.[More...]

Blackstone Group (BX) Surges On Potential Listing Of 8 Portfolio Companies, And Selling of 5 Others

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:09:35 GMT

Good times are back for our financial leaders; the private equity shops now can unload onto the public the companies they took over (and usually loaded with debt), and investment banks can make the big fees for the transaction. If you missed last week's explanation of how public equity works please see (Oct 6, 2009: Private Equity Skewered in New York Times) We're back in business America - our number 1 product, financial innovation, has returned. That whole financial calamity thing over the past 2 years is like a bad dream ... never happened.[More...]

US Stock Futures Rise On Earnings Optimism, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Eyed

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:26:46 GMT

US stock futures advanced on Monday ahead of the start of a busy week of earnings.[More...]

Is The United States On Sale?

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:29:21 GMT

When more than $14 billion in merger-and-acquisition deals were announced in a single day last week, U.S. stock prices zoomed as investors embraced a suddenly more-bullish outlook.[More...]

Blackstone Group (BX) Holding 'Team Health Holdings' Files $100M IPO

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:41:34 GMT

I have a very negative piece on private equity scheduled to hit at the end of the day, so let me preface that piece by saying I have very little exposure to our financial oligarchy simply because much of it revolts me. I can make money in other ways - and sleep at night. The obvious Russian mafia play is Goldman Sachs (GS) but I don't want to go there - instead I chose the king of private equity, BX, - lesser of 2 evils I suppose. That said, both the investment banking and private equity culture is helping to enact reverse Robin Hood upon the American masses (take from the many to give to the few). I am only posting that footnote in this piece because of what I have coming out in a few hours ;) It's a rip roarer.[More...]

Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX) Rallies On Goldman Sachs Addition To Conviction Buy List

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:03:51 GMT

Congrats! Another win to the "trading huddle" (allegedly) - while the last few posts have been about stocks going up for reasons they did in the old days, today's upgrade of Blackstone Group (BX) is more likely a representation of the new "financially innovative" and "fair and balanced" stock market. I just got lucky I added to the position yesterday, but generally "luck" has nothing to do with these things of late.[More...]

Watch This Number For Signs Of A Merger & Acquisition Rebound

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:26:00 GMT

When the credit markets froze solid last year, it was no surprise to see the number of announced mergers and acquisitions (M&A) fall, as stocks hit the skids and the U.S. economy tanked.[More...]

Vitamin Shoppe Pops As Its Shares Hit Market

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:48:00 GMT

Oct. 29--Americans are growing older, and that's a growth opportunity for North Bergen-based The Vitamin Shoppe Inc., which impressed Wall Street Wednesday with a better-than-expected showing on its first day as a public company.
The company, trading under the ticker VSI on the New York Stock Exchange, opened at $19.50 a share, 15 percent above the initial public offering price of $17, which was above the expected range of $14 to $16 for the IPO.
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Stocks Up Ahead Of Earnings Deluge

Schwarzman: Worst Is Behind Private Equity

Wall Street Ends Mostly Higher As Commodity Shares Gain, Bank Of America (NYSE:BAC) Rallies

China Extends String Of Oil Acquisitions In Ghana Deal

Blackstone Group (BX) Surges On Potential Listing Of 8 Portfolio Companies, And Selling of 5 Others

US Stock Futures Rise On Earnings Optimism, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Eyed

Is The United States On Sale?

Blackstone Group (BX) Holding 'Team Health Holdings' Files $100M IPO

Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX) Rallies On Goldman Sachs Addition To Conviction Buy List

Watch This Number For Signs Of A Merger & Acquisition Rebound

Vitamin Shoppe Pops As Its Shares Hit Market

Coskata Ethanol Refinery 'Open for Business' in Westmoreland

Coskata Inc. Resurrecting Ethanol Fuel

EDITORIAL: Selling Shamu and Buying American

St. Petersburg Times, Fla., Robert Trigaux Column: Blackstone Group Has Stake in Wide Range of Well-Known Businesses

Seeing a Recovery, and Challenges

Seeing a Recovery, and Challenges

Chattanooga Medical Supply Company Closing

Electronics Retailer HHGregg Identifies Its First Five Tampa Bay Stores

Guaranty Bank May Have a Buyer Soon, Analysts Say

The Blackstone Group Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results

Blackstone to Present at Barclays Capital Global Financial Services Conference

Peter Cohen to Join Blackstone As Head of Global Media Advisory Practice

Byron Wien to Join Blackstone As Vice Chairman of Blackstone Advisory Services

The Blackstone Group Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results

Blackstone Announces Second Quarter 2009 Earnings Conference Call for the Media

Blackstone Announces Second Quarter 2009 Earnings Conference Call

Philip Levinson to Join Blackstone in Asia

Blackstone Real Estate Fund Closes on â‚¬3.1 Billion

Blackstone Real Estate Fund Closes on €3.1 Billion

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