As you can imagine, this decision was huge news for digital startups, which have typically focused more on buy-out exit strategies than organic growth.
Various studies have shown that, during the 1990s at least, European-based private-equity funds (mostly concentrating on buy-outs) delivered better returns than their American counterparts.
And, although the stability of the financial system is not to be taken lightly, it would be odd to pick on buy-outs as the chief systemic risk, instead of looking at the complexity of the system as a whole.
During the past month, MKM Partners and ISI Group have initiated coverage on CSCO with Buy ratings (on Nov. 1 and Oct. 14, respectively), while UBS upgraded the stock to Buy from Neutral on Oct. 27.
FORBES: Cisco Systems Earnings: Short-Term Caution, Long-Term Gains
What that means is that fund managers can sell on Monday, buy on Wednesday, sell again on Friday and make money all along the way.
Bacon went on to buy another 900 acres on Long Island, a 1725 plantation in North Carolina once owned by several ancestors, the 21, 000-acre Tercio Ranch in Colorado and, of course, Trinchera.
FORBES: Hedge Fund Giant Louis Bacon's Bold Mission To Save The American West
The company is struggling as shoppers use Best Buy stores to test equipment they go on to buy online.
However, downloading tracks did lead to a significant drop in the number of singles being bought, with just 13% of the 500 people surveyed saying they went on to buy singles in shops after getting them on the internet.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie asked about retailers attempting to get round new rules on multi-buy discounts on alcohol.
Siminoff's small but fast-growing firm, Efficient Frontier, uses dauntingly complex calculations to help its clients get a better return on the ads they buy on Web search engines.
Markets will be keen to discover who will run the agency, as well as the total size of bad debts it will go on to buy from the banks, and what valuation it puts on those debts.
They will sell on bad earnings results, buy on earnings surprises, and generally throw their original portfolio construction plan away.
Goldman Sachs analyst Scott Goldman this morning cut his rating on Rackspace to Neutral from Buy on a valuation basis.
For people less familiar with online shopping, the package includes a multimedia tutorial from U.S. Robotics with information on how to buy online and on various security issues.
If we stream a film on Netflix or buy a book on Amazon, those companies are leveraging huge product-attribute datasets and ratings of millions of users to help us make just the right purchase.
FORBES: Targeted Marketing: Good for Elections, Bad for Government
Those who outrun the bear of recession often go on to buy struggling rivals.
Weekend newspaper reports suggested an American-backed consortium had been working on a buy-out proposal.
BBC: SPORT | Football | My Club | Newcastle United | Magpies confirm buy-out approach
The only two stocks on his buy list are Standard Pacific and Hovnanian Enterprises.
Embraer, Ambev, Petrobras and AsiaInfo have been on the buy list consistently for the last six weeks.
Also rumored to be on the buy-side: Emmis Communications and a group backed by billionaire George Soros.
Embraer, Ambev, Petrobras and AsiaInfo have been on the buy list consistently for the last five weeks.
FORBES: Brazil and China Dominate List of Emerging Market Value Plays
On the buy-side, Pharma is trying to secure a portfolio of external bets for its future pipeline.
Most analysts think investors should stand pat on Best Buy, with 17 of 19 analysts rating it hold.
These determinations are based on their own proprietary research and on publically-available information on share buy-backs in the marketplace.
It isn't about capturing eyeballs, it's about fingertips clicking on the buy button.
We are in the midst of holiday shopping so this week I am focusing on seven buy rated Retail-Wholesale stocks.
FORBES: Wal-Mart, Macy's And Five Other Retailers To Buy And Trade
The majority of analysts think investors should stand pat on Best Buy, with 17 of 19 analysts rating it hold.
Whether short-term market momentum keeps it on that buy signal will determine whether the exit is signaled at that time or not.
FORBES: Sell In May Could Still Come Into Play But Don't Bail Now
We always have setbacks, obstacles and serious failures along the way. (For more on this buy my recent book, Why People Fail).
One was Brian Tierney, a marketing impresario who has since gone on to buy the Philadelphia Inquirer with Hagan as an investor.
应用推荐