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The S&P restaurants index has pushed lower in recent trading, in line with our bearish view we set out previously, bowever, we believe the index could be coming up against a massive... 2012-05-21

Investor interest in private equity fund stocks remains muted. Indeed, PE funds may be the masters of sending their portfolio companies public, but when it comes to selling their own... 2012-05-09

Social networking giant Facebook is ready to go public. On May 3 Mark Zuckerberg 's dotcom darling set its estimated price range for its upcoming IPO at between US$28 to US$35 per... 2012-05-09

CFW View: A new US$468mn investment by RJJ Capital and Temasek Holding in Cheniere Energy will be used to fund the Sabine Pass LNG export terminal project - suggesting that a final... 2012-05-08

Wells Fargo , the fourth largest US bank by assets, this week announced that it would purchase prime brokerage firm Merlin

US midstream giant Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) is set to buy retailer, refiner and pipeline operator Sunoco for US$50.13 a share, or US$5.3bn. The deal is further evidence that... 2012-05-02

CFW View: Delta Air Lines' acquisition of the 185,000b/d Trainer refinery and talks initiated by Carlyle Group to acquire the 335,000b/d Philadelphia refinery spur hope that the ailing... 2012-05-01

When the going is good, why wait? Guidewire Software has been one of the IPO success stories of the 2012 y-t-d, and in an attempt to consolidate its gains the company decided to waive... 2012-04-25

The world's largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI), has announced that is has purchased a majority stake in Dominican Republic based Cerveceria Nacional Domicana - a move which... 2012-04-17

US lenders appear increasingly unwilling to make leveraged buyout (LBo) financing commitments at present. What is more, the worst could be yet to come as Federal banking regulators... 2012-04-17