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Lazard Puts Future In M&A with New CEO

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:02:35 GMT

In a signal of confidence for the future of mergers-and-acquisitions (M&A), Lazard Ltd. (NYSE: LAZ) appointed Kenneth Jacobs as its chairman and chief executive officer following the unexpected death of famed dealmaker Bruce Wasserstein.[More...]

Insider Buys And Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:38:00 GMT

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future prospects than the owners and executives of those companies themselves, along with major institutional shareholders.[More...]

Is The U.S. Market Again Ripe For IPOs?

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:56:26 GMT

By Bob Blandeburgo Associate Editor Money Morning Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s (NYSE: GS) initial public offerings (IPO) guru Tom Tuft has joined Bruce Wasserstein’s Lazard Ltd.... Money Morning is here to help investors profit handsomely on this seismic shift in the global economy. Money moves markets. But Money Morning lets you move first. [More...]

Snap, Crackle And Pop: The Sound Of A Rising Dividend!

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:10:00 GMT

Dividend increases aren’t the only thing the Kellogg Company (NYSE:K) is known for. For anyone over the age of two, Snap, Crackle and Pop are very familiar characters.[More...]

Earnings Review Of Note Monday-Tuesday

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:59:36 GMT

Some names I am looking at early this week Monday Fund holdings - Baidu.com (BIDU) and First National Financial (FNF). The former broke through the 200 day moving average Thursday but I cut it down to 1 share on super froth. The latter has been stagnat the past 8 days, with each day an intraday low hitting the 50 day moving average. Very strange. I cut back a bit to a 2.5% stake since I have double jeopardy in these guys with FNF and FAF. I expect good things but the stock action has been weak"ish" and this is the more expensive of the two - not that[More...]

Obama Administration Kicks The 'Car Czar' To The Curb

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:36:00 GMT

William Patalon III Executive Editor Money Morning/The Money Map Report U.S. President Barack Obama has decided against naming a "car czar," and is instead asking U.S. Treasury... Money Morning is here to help investors profit handsomely on this seismic shift in the global economy. Money moves markets. But Money Morning lets you move first. [More...]

Doug Kass' 20 Suprises for 2009

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:48:00 GMT

As promised, presented at TheStreet.com are Doug Kass' 20 Surprises for 2009; Doug is a hedge fund manager who I have been following for a long time and who excels in non Kool Aid analysis. Probably because his main hedge fund has had a short bias all these years, hence you tend to be more cynical when you need to fight drunk bulls every day. As Doug says, Wall Street is dominated by group think and herd behavior. While standing in front of the herd is dangerous, one can find some profitable opportunities from thinking outside the box. These are his predictions from last year (Jan 2: Doug Kass 20 Predictions for 2008)[More...]

Overly Leveraged Private Equity Deals Add to Unemployment and Deepen Recession

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:51:00 GMT

By Shah Gilani Contributing Editor Money Morning/The Money Map Report The once booming business of private equity faces an uncertain future. What’s not uncertain, however, is that many... Money Morning is here to help investors profit handsomely on this seismic shift in the global economy. Money moves markets. But Money Morning lets you move first. [More...]

A Few Sunday Thoughts: Common Sense, Disruption and Hope

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:08:00 GMT

Mark-to-Market Accounting Likely to Remain Had the SEC repudiated mark-to-market accounting, it could have set the recovery of our financial sector back a generation. From today's Wall Street Journal story: Mark-to-market accounting requires companies to value financial assets at their fair value -- the price they can fetch in the market. That has led companies to take big write-downs on thinly traded securities, even if the underlying assets aren't severely troubled. The write-downs have put pressure on prices of financial firms' stocks and forced many of them to sell assets or raise money to stay well above the capital requirements that have been set by regulators. [More...]

Best Perfomers Over Last Quarter

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:14:00 GMT

It is a moot point looking at weekly winners this week; just a handful of stocks moving up led by such growers as Campbell Soup (CPB) aka "people will still need to eat soup if nothing else" trade. So instead I am going to look at the best and worst performers the past 3 months. In this post we have every stock over $1.25B in market cap returning 15%+ (115 stocks) Now keep in mind the data is a bit misleading because 3 months ago at this time we were in the throes of another painful correction, in a series of step ladders down. About 90 days ago Fannie and Freddie and Lehman were falling off a cliff, and we were just over a week away from Hank Paulson going to Congress to create a plan to backup Fannie/Freddie. So this was a "bottom" and the financials rallied hard for the next 6-7 weeks - Fannie/Freddie of course were officially taken over within 2 months from that point.[More...]

Kraft rounds up banks to help Cadbury bid

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:46:00 GMT

Nov. 24--(Dow Jones)--As rivals weigh whether to top Kraft Food Inc.'s GBP9.9 billion ($16.5 billion) offer for Cadbury PLC, they are confronting an unusual situation: Kraft has extracted exclusivity agreements from the banks it is using to finance its bid, leaving contenders with few other banks to choose from.
Northfield-based Kraft, which made a hostile offer for Cadbury on Nov. 9, is being advised by Lazard and has secured a GBP5.5 billion bridge loan from a group of nine banks lead by Citigroup Inc., Deutsche Bank AG and HSBC Holdings PLC and including BNP Paribas SA, Barclays Capital, Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC as well as Credit Suisse, Societe Generale SA and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA.
The lead banks have cast the net even further and the number of banks financing Kraft's bid could grow to 18, a person familiar with the matter said earlier this month.

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Lazard Puts Future In M&A with New CEO

Insider Buys And Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

Is The U.S. Market Again Ripe For IPOs?

Snap, Crackle And Pop: The Sound Of A Rising Dividend!

Earnings Review Of Note Monday-Tuesday

Obama Administration Kicks The 'Car Czar' To The Curb

Doug Kass' 20 Suprises for 2009

Overly Leveraged Private Equity Deals Add to Unemployment and Deepen Recession

A Few Sunday Thoughts: Common Sense, Disruption and Hope

Best Perfomers Over Last Quarter

Kraft rounds up banks to help Cadbury bid

SoNo Left Powerless for Much of Day

Goldman analyst upgrades mid-cap brokers sector

U.S. Bancorp Adds New Jobs Here: 2 Former Wachovia Bankers Opening Office for Capital Markets and Corporate Banking.

U.S. Bancorp Opens Charlotte Office, Hires Ex-Wachovia Bankers

Outlook Mixed for Bank-Related Jobs in Charlotte: Area Will Continue to Lose Finance Jobs for at Least Rest of '09 Before Start of a Recovery, Experts Say.

R.H. Donnelley Reports Weaker Financial Results

Job Growth Reinforces Bahrain's Status As Financial Centre of Middle East, Says EDB

Area Man to Play Key Auto Role

Small Investment Banks Rise: Some of Them Even Have Plans to Hire ? Including in Charlotte ? As Their Larger Counterparts Falter.

Lazard World Dividend & Income Fund Declares Monthly Distribution

Lazard Global Total Return & Income Fund Declares Monthly Dividend

AspenBio to Present at the Lazard Capital Market 6th Annual Healthcare Conference

Lazard Global Total Return & Income Fund Declares Monthly Dividend

Astrotech Reports Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2009 and Announces Exploration of Strategic Alternatives

Lazard Global Total Return & Income Fund Declares Monthly Dividend

Lazard World Dividend & Income Fund Declares Monthly Distribution

Lazard Global Total Return & Income Fund Declares Monthly Dividend

Tom Tuft to Join Lazard As Chairman, Global Capital Markets Advisory

Lazard Ltd Reports Second-Quarter and First-Half 2009 Results

Form 4 Lazard Ltd For: Nov 27 Filed by: JACOBS KENNETH M (10K)

Form 4 Lazard Ltd For: Nov 27 Filed by: Castellano Michael J (10K)

Form 4 Lazard Ltd For: Nov 27 Filed by: Golub Steven J (10K)

Form 4 Lazard Ltd For: Nov 27 Filed by: Ward Charles (10K)

Form 4 Lazard Ltd For: Nov 27 Filed by: Stern Alexander F. (10K)

Form 4 Lazard Ltd For: Nov 27 Filed by: JORDAN VERNON E JR (10K)

Form 4 Lazard Ltd For: Nov 27 Filed by: Hoffman Scott D (10K)

Form 3 Lazard Ltd For: Nov 16 Filed by: JACOBS KENNETH M (10K)

Form 4 Lazard Ltd For: Nov 13 Filed by: Mignon Laurent (10K)

Form 4 Lazard Ltd For: Nov 13 Filed by: Jones Ellis (10K)