Closing Bell

Lululemon Athletica recently connected its inner yoga apparel spirit with a needy niche market and defied the downward dow.

John Canning, the chairman and ceo of Chicago private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners who has faced down the likes of Leon Black of Apollo Management and David Bonderman of... 2007-07-30

The Pink Sheet's new OTCQX exchange added a new level of guidance that aims to be visually helpful if not amusingly simple and cartoon-like.

The Blackstone Group's ceo Stephen Schwarzman has been hard to find after banking some $600 million from his firm's IPO, coverage of his 20-room Park Avenue apartment and affinity... 2007-07-16

As noted in CFW's pages years ago, National Lampoon was gearing up for an expansion with a $10 million private investment in public equity.

Catherine Bolton, the project director of the Wall Street West consortium in Pennsylvania, recently employed one of the most overused words in Wall Street-speak--"position"--to describe... 2007-07-02

With the next presidential election a mere 17 months away and the campaigns seemingly in full swing, the men (and a handful of women) who call the shots at the top private equity... 2007-06-25

Bankers just can't seem to get away even when the travel season arrives.

It seems that CFW needs to set something straight.

Over coffee at a midtown restaurant last week, a couple of Citigroup employees pondered the fate of an enormous red umbrella at the bank's corporate headquarters on Greenwich Street.