A Week Of Madness At Wall Street
JPMorgan Chase & Co. quadrupled its offer for Bear Stearns Cos. to $10 a share today and struck a deal to buy 40% of the company without a shareholder vote, making it unlikely opponents can block the takeover. A week ago on Monday, JPMorgan Chase agreed to buy Bear Sterns at a fire sale price [...]
Blackstone IPO: An Investment Opportunity
For the first time China has decided to make a direct investment in a U.S. private equity fund by investing $3 billion from its currency reserves of $1.2 trillion in private equity firm in U.S. called The Blackstone Group. The Blackstone GroupPrivate equity firms buy companies or take controlling stakes, cut costs, restructure the businesses [...]