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

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

Editor's Note: The following screenshots were taken from publicly-accessible records located at the website of the New York State Comptroller.Who couldn’t use a few extra bucks these days? Here

Are we near a bottom? According to Bloomberg, BlackRock’s (BLK) CEO Laurence Fink thinks we are. At an investment conference today in New York, Fink said “A year ago, I said we won’

Hello from New York, where I thought I'd celebrate my day off from TV by taking my family to the circus. What we're doing instead: Carting our infectious children from doctor to doctor to address the

The tale of how private equity’s Golden Age came to an end this year has to start on June 22, 2007. It was the day Blackstone Group (BX), the private-equity giant, went public on the New York S

Was Friday the 2008 trading low before a harsher downside comeuppance arrives in 2009? Given the historic rally that occurred while the bond market was closed yesterday, how will the equit

The Securities and Exchange Commission may require some US companies to switch to international accounting rules by 2014. The SEC says the change will make American companies more competitive in the

As the pendulum swings between greed and fear, investors typically behave in 1 of 2 ways: They either become over-enthusiastic during bull markets and over-despondent as the bear’s growl grows

Dell (DELL) says price cuts boosted second quarter sales, but cut profits 17%. Dell’s profit dropped to $616 million, or $0.31 per share, from $746 million, or $0.32, for the same period a year