Western Refining To Buy Wingate Plant From ConocoPhillips
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Zacks Investment Research
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Thursday, September 18, 2014 1:07 PM EDT
Oil refiner and marketer Western Refining Inc. (WNR - Analyst Report) announced that it has signed a deal with the integrated energy major ConocoPhillips (COP - Analyst Report), to acquire the latter’s Wingate Fractionation Plant in Gallup, New Mexico.
Endo Looking To Acquire Auxilium Pharmaceuticals For $2.2B
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Zacks Investment Research
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014 5:58 PM EDT
In a bid to expand its product portfolio/pipeline, Endo International submitted a proposal to take over Auxilium Pharmaceuticals for $2.2 billion in cash as well as stock. Endo intends to utilize its existing cash balance to fund the deal.
Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Looks To Find A New Partner Once Again For Cancer Compound
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Terry Chrisomalis
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014 7:29 PM EDT
Now that Rexahn's partnership with Teva fell apart, it appears the company is looking for a new partner for its RX-3117 cancer compound.
Newsflash To Fed: 122 Billion Bottles Of Beer On The Wall Is A Mega-Bubble
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David Stockman
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Monday, September 15, 2014 12:41 PM EDT
While Janet Yellen and her band of money printers work themselves up into a tizzy over whether two buzz words—-“considerable time”—– should be dropped from their post-meeting word cloud, they might be better advised to just read the newspapers.
Morning Call For Sept. 15, 2014
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Jim Van Meerten
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Monday, September 15, 2014 9:17 AM EDT
December E-mini S&Ps (ESZ14 -0.09%) this morning are down -0.16% at a 3-week low and European stocks are down -0.07% on concern a slowdown of China's economy will undercut global economic prospects after China Aug industrial output rose at the slowest pace in 5-1/2 years.
Report: Microsoft To Buy The Company Behind Minecraft For $2 Billion
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Shelly Palmer
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014 11:12 AM EDT
Microsoft is nearing a deal to buy Mojang AB, makers of the Minecraft video game franchise, according to a new report.
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Shelly Palmer Radio Report: Amazon Acquiring Video Game Streaming Site Twitch.tv For $970 Million
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Thursday, September 4, 2014 12:39 PM EDT
Amazon recently announced that it was acquiring video game streaming site Twitch.tv for $970 million.
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Merger Mania! Tech Bubble 2.0, Part 2
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Casey Research
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Thursday, September 4, 2014 11:07 AM EDT
Recently, I analyzed the tech market from a valuations perspective and concluded that, while certainly frothy, it isn’t looking as if it’s a true bubble in search of a pin.
Sudetenland Revisited
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Vivian Lewis
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Thursday, September 4, 2014 3:47 AM EDT
The deal being worked out over eastern Ukraine sounds like the 1937 Munich capitulation and unlike the British rush to defend Polish borders 75 years ago in Sept. 1939—right down to the presence of a supposed outsider in the deal (Hitler in 1937; Putin in 2014.)
Is A Big Pop Coming In Tech Stocks?
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Chris Ciovacco
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014 5:56 PM EDT
Regular readers know we are not big fans of forecasting outcomes in the financial markets. However, assessing investment probabilities based on evidence we have in hand is a value-add exercise.
Netflix Petitions FCC To Block Comcast Time Warner Cable Merger
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Shelly Palmer
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014 4:02 PM EDT
Netflix has been one of the most vocal proponents of net neutrality, and now, the video streaming company is taking its fight straight to the top.
Burger King Flips Obama The Bird; BK, Warren Buffet, Greg Mankiw, Barry Ritholtz, Mish On Corporate Tax Inversion "Fairness"
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Mish Shedlock
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014 2:02 PM EDT
The Bloomberg headline "Inversion Express Slows to Crawl" was good for precisely 1 day. Today we see this Bloomberg headline: Burger King in Talks to Buy Tim Hortons in Tax-Saving Move
Keep The Faith, Says Michael Fowler: Juniors And Midtiers Poised For M&A-Fueled Breakout Once Gold Recovers
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The Gold Report
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014 6:17 AM EDT
Michael Fowler, senior mining analyst with Toronto-based Loewen, Ondaatje & McCutcheon, predicts when gold breaks out, mining M&A will take off. He expects the major producers to lead the next rush of M&A.