Federal prosecutors lost a jury trial against two former Bear Stearns Cos. hedge-fund managers accused of lying to investors about how they invested their assets.
He studied the cases of recent and pending spin-offs including McGraw-Hill Cos.
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Platts, the oil-pricing agency that is part of McGraw-Hill Cos.
Fiscal first-quarter profits at four big investment banks--Lehman, Goldman, Bear Stearns Cos. (nyse: BSC - news - people ), and Morgan Stanley, were up 19% on average.
Companies the FERC accuses of gaming include Sempra Energy (nyse: SRE - news - people ), Canadian provincial utility BC Hydro, Avista (nyse: AVA - news - people ), American Electric Power (nyse: AEP - news - people ), Duke Energy (nyse: DUK - news - people ), Mirant (nyse: MIR - news - people ), Dynegy (nyse: DYN - news - people ), Calpine (nyse: CPN - news - people ), Reliant, Williams Cos. (nyse: WMB - news - people ) and Constellation Energy Group (nyse: CEG - news - people ).
Goldman Sachs Group (nyse: GS - news - people ), Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns Cos. (nyse: BSC - news - people ) dominate the market, particularly for equity prime brokerage, but a handful of commercial banks, including Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ) and Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ), have been chomping at the bit to get bigger.
And my own judgment is that - and being slightly detached from this cos I'm not directly involved in the day to day management of these issues - is that they have been managed as well as any government could have anticipated.
Audenried is now slated to reopen in September under charter-school operator Universal Cos.
We own best-of-breed retailers like the jeweler Tiffany (26, TIF) and Lowe's Cos. (55, LOW), the do-it-yourself building materials chain.
Peltz's Triarc Cos. (nyse: TRY - news - people ) said Thursday it will acquire the Dublin, Ohio-based Wendy's (nyse: WEN - news - people ).
The NFL "is almost a necessity for broadcast and cable networks in terms of maintaining the health of their business overall, " says Kris Magel, director of national broadcast at Initiative, a media-buyingunit of Interpublic Group of Cos.
"Every dollar we pay the credit-card companies is a dollar we can't pass on to consumers or use to hire employees or build more stores, " said Scott Mason, vice president of government affairs for home-improvement retailer Lowe's Cos.
Once a month the 42-year-old goes to the General Nutrition Cos.
Bear Stearns Cos. could be eyeing acquisitions in the asset-management or mortgage sectors, getting a boost from an infusion of capital from a new foreign stakeholder.
"His price is way-off what it was before the incident, " said David Schwab, vice president and managing director of Octagon First Call, a celebrity-marketing arm of Interpublic Group of Cos.
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The first course of the macrobiotic meal was baby Cos lettuce salad with coconut vinaigrette, followed by miso-marinated sablefish, with seasonal fruit salad and sorbet for dessert.
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Shares of insurance company Travelers Cos were signaling a positive start Tuesday, climbing in pre-market trading.
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Peltz's Triarc Cos. said Thursday it will acquire the Dublin, Ohio-based Wendy's .
Paul Travelers Cos. are up about 30% in 2005, just off 52-week highs.
Exploding usage of the Internet in the early 1990s drove the expansion of the network core, giving rise to the long-haul backbones of newcomers like WorldCom, Qwest, Williams Cos. and Level 3.
And it reminded me, cos that's in Brent, that we lost the Brent East bi-election with twenty five per cent swing.
The 438-room hotel is one of the first large acquisitions made by Rubicon Cos.
On Feb. 26, the previously low-profile company, which controls more than 400 office properties in second-tier cities and suburbs, was thrust into the limelight when Related Cos. and Corvex Management LP announced they had purchased nearly 10% of the company and offered to buy the remainder.
The Travelers Cos. also saw a 51 percent drop in quarterly profits, a direct result of Sandy-related claims.
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NBC's The Restaurant, this summer's six-episode reality show about a New York bistro, is the first prime-time series in decades produced in part by an ad agency, the Interpublic Group of Cos.
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