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Divestment
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Redstone dumps Midway Games
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December 2, 2008
Sumner Redstone and his holding companies have sold their shares in Midway Games Inc. Read more
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
GM will sell stake in Suzuki to raise capital
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November 18, 2008
Cash-strapped General Motors Corp. Read more
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Redstone’s theater chain may be next
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November 4, 2008
Sumner Redstone hinted Monday that he might sell his family’s movie theaters to fix his pressing debt problems. Read more
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Target investor seeks real estate spinoff
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October 30, 2008
A major shareholder in Target Corp. Read more
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Kerkorian sells Ford shares, plans to unload entire stake
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October 22, 2008
In an apparent vote of no confidence, billionaire Kirk Kerkorian has sold part of his 6.49% stake in Ford Motor Co. Read more
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Redstone sale raises $233 million
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October 14, 2008
Billionaire Sumner Redstone’s National Amusements Inc. Read more
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Redstone hit by credit troubles
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October 11, 2008
Billionaire Sumner Redstone got caught in the credit crunch Friday. Read more
Saturday, October 4, 2008
AIG plans to sell assets to pay debt
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October 4, 2008
The insurer American International Group Inc. Read more
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Some AIG units in state could see eager buyers
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September 18, 2008
Bargain hunters could snag some good deals by buying parts of troubled American International Group Inc.’s profitable subsidiaries in California and around the world, market analysts predicted Wednesday. Read more
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Lehman bailout by U.S. deemed unlikely
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September 13, 2008
The stage was set Friday for America’s rattled financial system to face a possibility that Washington has so far sought to avoid: that one of the nation’s big investment houses would collapse without government aid to soften the blow. Read more
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Quiksilver to sell Rossignol ski unit
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August 28, 2008
Orange County surf-wear giant Quiksilver Inc. Read more
ConocoPhillips unhooks from gas station business
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August 28, 2008
Houston-based ConocoPhillips became the latest big oil company to get out of the filling station business, agreeing Wednesday to sell its last 600 U.S. gasoline stations to PetroSun Fuel of Seattle. Read more
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
MGM Studios ‘not for sale’ despite high debt
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August 26, 2008
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. Read more
Friday, August 22, 2008
Napster investors seek board seats to push for sale
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August 22, 2008
Three investors are launching a fight to be elected to the board of Napster Inc. Read more
Friday, August 15, 2008
Sale of Anaheim hospital halted
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August 15, 2008
The latest deal to sell Anaheim Memorial Medical Center collapsed Thursday when state officials nixed its $57-million purchase by Pacific Health Corp., which faces allegations that it defrauded Medicare and Medi-Cal. Read more
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Cablevision may spin off holdings
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August 6, 2008
Nine months after shareholders rejected the Dolan family’s latest bid to take Cablevision Systems Corp. Read more
Friday, July 25, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Merrill to sell Bloomberg, not BlackRock
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July 17, 2008
Merrill Lynch & Co., the nation’s third-largest securities firm, dropped efforts to sell a stake in BlackRock Inc. Read more
