The stock market was hot in July, but Third Point Offshore missed the party.
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August 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Warren Buffett’s $6 billion wager on Japan’s trading companies may serve as a catalyst to bring back foreign investors to the country’s value-sector heavy stock market, ...
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August 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Utilities have long been considered ultrasafe bets. Some of Wall Street’s biggest investors are now learning that isn’t always true.
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January 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
After opening in the green, the three major indexes are now in the red as some traders step onto the sidelines before the November 8 election.
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November 1 - Market Movers, News - Comments
The U.S. newspaper publishing industry has been considered a dying industry in recent years amid fast-declining print readership.
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June 3 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Markets opened lower on Monday due to a weakening dollar, declining oil prices and anxiety before the important speeches from Federal Reserve official scheduled this week.
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May 23 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Feared activist Carl Icahn of Icahn Capital LP reduced his fund’s exposure to U.S.
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May 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
On the first day of the trading week, crude futures are 2.4% in the green while the S&P 500 and other equity index futures are roughly flat.
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May 16 - Market Movers, News - Comments
It's the beginning of another big trading week, and the Dow Jones and S&P 500 are below the key technical points of 18,000 and 21,000, respectively.
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April 25 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Shareholder activism has been surging over the past several years, with the shareholder activism arena managing approximately $120 billion in assets under management.
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January 15 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Gannett Co Inc (NYSE:GCI), the owner of USA Today, is buying Journal Media Group Inc (NYSE:JMG) for $280 million or $12 per share in cash.
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October 9 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Activist investing has gained a considerable amount of traction among retail investors for the last couple of years, whereby the trend is to follow renowned activists like Carl...
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June 23 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Billionaire Carl Icahn of Icahn Capital has recently increased his stake in Federal-Mogul Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:FDML) by acquiring around 17.48 million shares of the company.
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March 30 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn has recently reached an agreement with Gannett Co., Inc.
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March 2 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
It was announced a little over a week ago that Manitowoc Company Inc (NYSE:MTW) would split into two core businesses, thanks in part to pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn...
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February 9 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
It only took a month for Carl Icahn’s latest activist move to pay big dividends, as Manitowoc Company Inc (NYSE:MTW) announced in an 8-K filing with the SEC on Thursday that...
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January 30 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
As it was reported in the news in the last couple of days, activist investor Carl Icahn took some important steps regarding two companies, in which he is a large shareholder.
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January 22 - Commodities, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Activist investor Carl Icahn has expressed his intention to obtain two seats on the Gannett Co., Inc.
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January 22 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
One of the greatest activist investors on Wall Street, Carl Icahn, has recently disclosed his equity portfolio for the third quarter of 2014.
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November 16 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Legendary corporate raider Carl Icahn recently filed his second quarter Form 13F with the SEC.
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August 22 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Belo Corp merger: Pine River Capital Management, a hedge fund managed by Brian Taylor, recently dropped some shares of Belo Corp (NYSE:BLC), according to a filing with the SEC...
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October 1 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
On Wednesday, with its shares trading just below their highest levels in two years, Sothebys (NYSE:BID)’s announced it is reviewing its capital allocation and financial position...
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September 13 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, has just entered into an agreement with The Washington Post Company (NYSE:WPO) to buy the newspaper publishing business, including...
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September 5 - News - Comments
The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) has operated in two segments: New York Times Media Group (The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, NYTimes.com) and New England...
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September 3 - News - Comments
To many market players, hedge funds are seen as useless, outdated financial vehicles of an era lost to time.
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September 3 - News - Comments
Investors define income stocks in different ways.
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August 28 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
In the financial world, there are plenty of methods market participants can use to analyze stocks. A couple of the most useful are hedge fund and insider trading interest.
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August 27 - News - Comments
Investors define income stocks in different ways.
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August 26 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
With just five weeks and two days left until the state-run exchanges are scheduled to open for business, the reality of health-care reform, and its many unknowns, is beginning...
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August 25 - News - Comments
For some, it's being in your favorite football team's locker room during the coach's inspiring halftime speech.
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August 21 - News - Comments
Editor's Note: Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.B), Suncor Energy Inc. (USA) (NYSE:SU), The Washington Post Company (NYSE:WPO), Gannett Co., Inc.
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August 16 - News - Comments
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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August 16 - News - Comments
There’s an economic recovery happening, but the future of the recovery is rather uncertain.
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August 12 - News - Comments
The days of trudging out to the driveway to pick up the Sunday morning newspaper are gone for many Americans.
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August 9 - News - Comments
CBS Corporation (NYSE:CBS) and Time Warner Cable are fighting over carriage costs.
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August 7 - News - Comments
Recently, the investment community has witnessed a lot of TV station deals. Gannett Co., Inc.
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August 5 - News - Comments
Traditional publishers are dying.
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August 5 - News - Comments
Although the race to reach $1,000 is now between Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Priceline.com Inc (NASDAQ:PCLN), and up until last year included Apple Inc.
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July 30 - News - Comments
Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (NASDAQ:FOXA). That continues the trend of companies divesting their struggling print businesses to focus more heavily on growing assets.
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July 30 - News - Comments
Monday morning was quiet on the earnings front, but there were still several big-name companies to report quarterly results.
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July 29 - News - Comments
The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) has long presented a conundrum to investors.
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July 22 - News - Comments
Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI) will release its quarterly report next Monday, and investors are unusually enthusiastic about the company's prospects.
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July 19 - News - Comments
The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) recently re-launched its mobile website as an initiative toward creating more responsive and engaging content across all its digital platforms...
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July 19 - News - Comments
has experienced a 16.2% rise since the middle of June from $53 per share to $61.60 per share at the time of writing.
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July 19 - News - Comments
First Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI) did it. Now Tribune is doing it. Pretty soon, the entire media landscape will be different.
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July 18 - News - Comments
A historic day is coming for News Corp (NASDAQ:NWS) and its chairman and CEO Robert Murdoch.
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July 7 - News - Comments
Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI) recently announced a big move that attracted a lot of investor attention.
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July 1 - News - Comments
Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI) has been an interesting company to follow in recent weeks. On June 13, the company announced its intention to acquire Belo Corp (NYSE:BLC).
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June 25 - News - Comments
Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI) has taken measures to reduce its exposure to the declining newspaper publishing industry.
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June 25 - News - Comments
The latest round of consolidation in the newspaper and broadcasting industries involves McLean, Virginia-based newspaper publisher Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI) and Dallas-based...
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June 24 - News - Comments