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News Breaks | | | | September 6, 2012 | | 08:18 EDT |  | C, FMCN, PRU, CS, CG | Price for Focus Media buyout debated, WSJ reports
Last November, China's Focus Media Holdings (FMCN) was the subject of short seller Muddy Waters as the shares fell 39% after Carson Block, the investor behind Muddy Waters' reports on Chinese stocks, said the company had overstated the number of advertising screens it had by 50% and deliberately overpaid for acquisitions. But the shares rallied and received a boost last month when Focus Media Chairman Jason Jiang and private equity firms such as Carlyle Group (CG) offered to buy the company for $3.7B., which would be China's biggest leveraged-buyout offer ever, reports the Wall Street Journal. Still, Focus Media shareholder Eastspring Investments, the $20B asset-management unit for the Prudential (PRU), thinks the price should be at least $30 a share, $3 more than the Jiang consortium's proposal. Reference Link | |
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| May 16, 2013 | | 12:32 EDT |  | CS | EU bank stress test delayed until 2014 by regulator
The EBA agreed on recommendations to supervisors to conduct asset quality reviews on major EU banks. While banks’ capital positions were significantly strengthened under the EBA’s recapitalisation exercise, the objective of the asset quality exercises will be to review banks’ classifications and valuations of their assets so to help dispel concerns over the deterioration of asset quality due to macroeconomic conditions in Europe. Since appropriately reviewed balance sheets are a key input to an effective stress test, the EBA has also adjusted the timeline of the next EU-wide stress test so to conduct the exercise in 2014 once the asset quality reviews are completed. However, to ensure transparency and comparability over the years, the EBA will provide, in 2H, appropriate disclosure on the actual exposures of the EU banking sector. Reference Link | | | 08:33 EDT |  | C | BofA/Merrill's gobal financial analysts hold an analyst/industry conference call
Global Financial Institutions Analysts discuss their Global Financials Quarterly Best Ideas Report on an Analyst/Industry conference call. Relevant companies AIG, ALL, ASBC, BCH, BKU, BBT, BBD, C, CMA, EVER, FITB, FHN, FRC, FULT, HBAN, ING, KEY, MTB, PNC, RF, STI, SUSQ, SNV, HIG, USB, WFC, XL and ZION may be included on the Analyst/Industry conference call to be held on May 16 at 10 am. | | | 07:18 EDT | | C | Investors bet on banks hit by credit crisis, Bloomberg reports
 Subscribe for More Information | | | 06:41 EDT | | C | Big banks to benefit from U.S. concession on derivatives, NY Times says
Subscribe for More Information | | | May 15, 2013 | | 17:03 EDT |  | C | Soros gives quarterly update on stakes
NEW STAKES: MeadWestvaco (MWV), Brocade (BRCD), Red Hat (RHT), Liberty Global (LBTYK), and VMware (VMW). INCREASED STAKES: Google (GOOG), Liberty Global (LBTYA), EQT Corp (EQT), Charter (CHTR), and US Airways (LCC). DECREASED STAKES: Citigroup (C), AIG (AIG), Apple (AAPL), Invesco (IVZ), and Motorola Solutions (MSI). LIQUIDATED STAKES: JPMorgan (JPM), General Electric (GE), CF Industries (CF), Morgan Stanley (MS), and Capital One (COF). | | | 16:02 EDT |  | C | Options Update; May 15, 2013
Subscribe for More Information | | | 15:32 EDT | | C | Citigroup April net charge-offs 3.11% vs. 3.19% last month
Citigroup April delinquencies 2.1% vs. 2.17% last month | | | 11:48 EDT | | C, PRU | Appaloosa reports new stakes in Comcast, Ashland, sells Oracle
David Tepper's Appaloosa in its quarterly filing report new positions in Comcast (CMCSA), Prudential (PRU), Hess Corp. (HES), Check Point (CHKP), KBR (KBR) and Ashland (ASH). The fund sold its stakes in Oracle (ORCL) and Noble Corp. (NE). Appaloosa's top position is in Citigroup (C), with a stake worth over $376.9M. | | | 10:13 EDT |  | PRU | On The Fly: Analyst Upgrade Summary
Today's noteworthy upgrades include: Aeropostale (ARO) upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform at BMO Capital... Gap (GPS) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Citigroup... PS Business Parks (PSB) upgraded to Market Perform from Underperform at BMO Capital... Redwood Trust (RWT) upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform at FBR Capital... Regal-Beloit (RBC) upgraded to Outperform from Neutral at Credit Suisse... Unilever (UN) upgraded to Buy from Reduce at Nomura... Prudential (PRU) upgraded to Buy from Hold at Argus... Inergy, L.P. (NRGY) upgraded to Overweight from Neutral at JPMorgan... Noble Energy (NBL) upgraded to Buy from Hold at Stifel... Halcon Resources (HK) upgraded to Buy from Hold at Stifel. | | | 07:33 EDT | | PRU | Prudential upgraded to Buy from Hold at Argus
Subscribe for More Information | | | | 07:11 EDT | | CG | Some buyout firms move beyond buyouts, WSJ reports
Subscribe for More Information | | | 06:08 EDT | | CG | On the Fly: Periodicals Wrap-Up
Subscribe for More Information | | | May 14, 2013 | | 18:28 EDT | | C | Citi announces sale of Credicard to Banco Itaú Unibanco
Subscribe for More Information | | | 16:00 EDT | | C | Options Update; May 14, 2013
Subscribe for More Information | | | 12:47 EDT | | FMCN | Options with increasing implied volatility: FMCN FIO SVU BKS
Subscribe for More Information | | | 08:33 EDT | | C | CFTC investigates swap contracts, FT reports
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a “special call” asking Wall Street banks and other traders to provide documents that would prove recent derivatives transactions known as “exchanges of futures for swaps” were legal. Lawyers at the CFTC enforcement division are also scrutinizing the trades for possible violations. The probe is into the legitimacy of more than 1M energy and metals transactions by the biggest traders in commodities markets over the past two years.Reference Link | | | 08:18 EDT | | C | David Tepper says Citigroup position 'more than twice' Apple stake
Subscribe for More Information | | | 08:10 EDT | | C | David Tepper says biggest position remains Citigroup
Subscribe for More Information | | | 08:10 EDT | | C | David Tepper says biggest position remains Citigroup
Subscribe for More Information | | | May 13, 2013 | | 15:04 EDT | | C | Fed says large banks must submit midyear stress tests on July 5
Eighteen large U.S. bank holding companies are required to submit the results of their company-run, midyear stress tests to the Federal Reserve on July 5, the Federal Reserve said. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act required that large bank holding companies and non-bank financial institutions that are designated for Federal Reserve supervision by the Financial Stability Oversight Council conduct two stress tests each year. In the midyear test, which is being conducted for the first time in 2013, each firm develops its own baseline, adverse, and severely adverse scenarios to best reflect its individual operations and risks. Each firm in the midyear test is required to release the results produced under its severely adverse scenario, helping promote market discipline and understanding of the financial conditions and risks of individual firms, between September 15 and September 30, the Fed added. | | |
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