Lehman Brothers

Fuld Searches for a New Lifeline for Lehman

nytimes.com     Aug 7, 2008   1 related          

Lehman Brothers undeniably has a challenge ahead of it: boosting its capital base as it remains saddled with toxic mortgage assets. Now its chief executive is scrambling to find a solution without endangering the long-term...                    

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Good Business International Better Business for a Better World Opens to Public

prnewsnow.com     Aug 7, 2008          

A virtual free access business and society thinktank featuring news from Wall Street moguls green business entrepreneurs free market capitalists like Gates and Buffet corporate executives economists marketing mavericks...                    

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Duff Capital Advisors Continues Build Out

prnewswire.com     Aug 7, 2008   2 related          

Adds Two Additional Investment Teams; and Appoints New Members of Senior Management Team GREENWICH, Conn., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- "We are methodically gaining critical mass by strategically seeking the highest caliber...                    

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Deals of the Day: Capital Ideas for Lehman Brothers

wsj.com     Aug 7, 2008          

Deals of the Day includes all the major news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions and financing. [Sydney Morning Herald] Related: Carlyle Group, TPG and Apollo Management may bid for Rio Tinto’s aeronautics and...                    

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Why Changing Wall Street Paychecks Won’t Change Wall Street

wsj.com     Aug 7, 2008   1 related          

The post-credit crunch conversation about Wall Street’s ills gives the impression that finance guys are one-celled organisms whose only interest is earning more money. (We aren’t debating it.) But by that simple reasoning, if...                    

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Four at Four: The Scouring of the Shire

wsj.com     Aug 7, 2008          

Investors continue to flee. Those who believe Sprint Nextel shares have hit bottom are welcome to get a shovel, just in case more digging needs to be done. Shares of the telecom giant fell 14.2%, ending the session at $7.34 a...                    

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Good Idea of the Day: Slashing the Structured Product Investor Base

portfolio.com     Aug 7, 2008   1 related          

Aline van Duyn reports today that a group of A-list banks -- "including JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, HSBC, Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley," we're told, a list which is notable for the non-inclusion of Goldman...                    

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US banks urge sweeping market reforms

ft.com     Aug 7, 2008   6 related          

The world’s biggest banks are proposing dramatic revisions to the securitisation and derivatives industries under reforms outlined in a study headed by Gerald Corrigan, ex-NY Fed chief and managing director at Goldman Sachs....                    

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How to Be a Public Company CEO | Dare Mighty Things [del.icio.us]

bestengagingcommunities.com     Aug 6, 2008          

I’m out here at the Pacific Crest Technology Leadership Forum in Vail, Colorado this week. The 600 attendees here are a mix of public institutional investors, hedge fund managers, investment bankers, public company analysts,...                    

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Merrill’s Chief Defends Recent Sale

nytimes.com     Aug 5, 2008   11 related          

John A. Thain said he had to do something to stop the bleeding at Merrill Lynch. A week after he stunned Wall Street by selling billions of dollars of toxic mortgage investments for pennies on the dollar, Mr. Thain defended his...                    

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