Fast money is building in Potash after BHP Billiton’s $39 billion hostile bid, but the sheer size of the potential deal could limit the sway arbitrageurs and hedge funds have on the outcome.
A year after the financial crisis subsided, the $2.5 trillion private-equity industry is finding the easy money may be gone.
MF Global is poised to enter money management and investment banking, the brokerage firm’s new boss was quoted as saying by The Financial Times on Monday.
Collectively, HP’s shareholders are now $14.5 billion poorer than they were on Aug. 5. Where did all that wealth go? an economist asks.
What if they make more than the owner of the business?
No money down mortgage options are still available with the VA and USDA loan programs.
Call it a WPA-lite: a stimulus program that uses taxpayer funds to put 247000 unemployed people directly into jobs.
Morgan Stanley, buoyed by rising revenue, set aside 37 percent more money to pay employees in the first half of this year.
Private equity real estate fund-raising fell in the second quarter to its lowest level since 2004, suggesting that a recovery has yet to take root in the investment property market.
If you tell your children they have nice toys and clothes because you work hard, you may have this one aimed at you.
