The stock market was hot in July, but Third Point Offshore missed the party.
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August 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn has recently reached an agreement with Gannett Co., Inc.
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March 2 - Hedge Funds, News
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
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
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
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
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
Legendary corporate raider Carl Icahn recently filed his second quarter Form 13F with the SEC.
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August 22 - Hedge Funds, News
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
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
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
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
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
Investors define income stocks in different ways.
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August 28 - Dividend Stocks, News
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
Investors define income stocks in different ways.
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August 26 - Dividend Stocks, News
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
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
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
There’s an economic recovery happening, but the future of the recovery is rather uncertain.
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August 12 - News
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
CBS Corporation (NYSE:CBS) and Time Warner Cable are fighting over carriage costs.
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August 7 - News
Recently, the investment community has witnessed a lot of TV station deals. Gannett Co., Inc.
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August 5 - News
Traditional publishers are dying.
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August 5 - News
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
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
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
The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) has long presented a conundrum to investors.
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July 22 - News
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
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
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
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
A historic day is coming for News Corp (NASDAQ:NWS) and its chairman and CEO Robert Murdoch.
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July 7 - News
Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI) recently announced a big move that attracted a lot of investor attention.
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July 1 - News
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
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
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