As America prepares to tuck into turkeys, Byrd became our longest serving lawmaker, Birds Eye is being bought by Blackstone (BX) and yesterday’s equity action was one for the birds. With h

Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, best known for chronicling the rich in The Great Gatsby, supposedly said to Ernest Hemingway, “The rich are different than you and me.”To which Hemingway rep

Stanley Works (SWK) but untold others don’t. The toolmaker hit a 52-week high Friday after its Black & Decker (BDK) acquisition even as double digit unemployment threw a wrench into th

A strong IPO market is good news for private equity, and the new issues market will remain strong into next year, the president and chief operating officer of Blackstone Group (BX) believes.“We

Stocks surged, the Dow’s best day since July taking it back above 10,000 as gold rallied for a fourth straight session (see Why Gold Could Still Triple From Here). US worker productivity posted

Private equity is back!Or so it would seem, according to some of the biggest rock stars from the leveraged buyout industry this week. The Blackstone Group’s (BX) Steve Schwarzman told a Dubai c

The S&P 500 rose for a sixth successive session, its best run since June of ‘07, as it and the Dow each ended at highs for the year, although an afternoon about-face on vacation volume mean

There was some un-American-style bearish speculation about silver the other day. This is via Schaeffer's:   Put volume was unusually heavy last Friday on iShares Silver Trust (SLV), with acti

Here’s just what banks don’t need after the housing crunch: a stake in struggling media companies. But it may work out that way, thanks to bankruptcies. When media companies can no longer

Want to know where the S&P 500 (SPY) is headed? The corporate-bond market likely holds the answer.So far this year, investment-grade-debt sales are on a record pace according to the article Black