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Some good timing on Bowne…

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

On Tuesday, after the market closed, Bowne & Co. (BNE) announced that it was being acquired by RR Donnelly (RRD) for $481 million, or about $11.50 a share. Given that Bowne stock closed at $6.97 on Tuesday, there were no doubt some smiles on a few investors’ faces over the news. Given this, we decided to [...]

Blackrock’s massive Friday afternoon dump…

Monday, February 1st, 2010

As we monitored filings on Friday afternoon, we wondered why EDGAR seemed unusually sluggish. But it wasn’t until late Friday that we realized why: Blackrock (BLK) had done a massive document dump on Friday afternoon of 13G filings related to its acquisition of Barclay’s Global Investors. We counted over 1,800 13Gs that Blackrock dumped on [...]