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Though we don’t normally do a lot with proxy fights here at footnoted — the last one we can recall really caring about was the dust-up between Target (TGT) and Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman last year — this revised proxy statement filed late yesterday by Ron Burkle’s Yucaipa Co. over Barnes & Noble (BKS) caught [...]
The markets (and the SEC) may have been closed for the Fourth of July on Friday, but there was no shortage of numbers. Macy’s (M) set off 45,000 pounds of fireworks over the Hudson River from six barges. That same day Nathan’s (NATH) held its annual hot-dog contest where the winner ate 68 hot dogs [...]
Yesterday afternoon, after the $700 billion bailout legislation failed, Hank Paulson came out of the White House and said, “We have experienced significant turmoil in our financial markets in the last few days, including the collapse of Washington Mutual and Wachovia here and the failure of two major financial institutions in Europe.” Of course, Wachovia [...]
Last Monday, Cost Plus (CPWM) reported its third quarter results after the market closed. During the quarter, the company lost money and same store sales fell by 4.3%, which the company said was related to “heavy coupon activity” during the third quarter a year earlier. The next day, one analyst at a small firm lowered [...]
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