The Street (Free subscription) | yesterday
General Electric has sold $500 million worth of five-year Islamic bonds, making it the first major U.S. corporate issuer of what is known as "sukuk," according to a published report.
GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
By guruek. (GuruFocus, November 20, 2009) The company chaired and managed by Investment Guru Prem Watsa is voluntarily delisting from New York Stock Exchange. US investors of the company will have to trade the stock in Toronto Stock Exchange. Via Reuters:Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited announced its intention to voluntarily delist its subordinate voting shares from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)....
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
GE owns NBC. NBC relentlessly sucks up to Obama. Now, GE has decided they must $1 billion in Sharia-compliant bonds. From Atlas Shrugs : Shariah Finance Watch writes, "GE’s involvement with promoting Shariah, the barbaric doctrine of the enemies that seek to replace capitalism, end free speech, eliminate rights for women and phase out self-determination, should come as no surprise given...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
By TIM ARANGO and BILL CARTER NYT Oprah Winfrey is fleeing broadcast television for cable. NBC, once arguably the biggest cultural tastemaker in the United States, is being shopped to Comcast, the country’s largest cable company. Have we finally reached a tipping point that suggests a remarkable decline in the fortunes of broadcast television in America? In the NBC Universal deal, in which General...
publishaletter.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Dear Editor: Please do a story on the contributions Senator Max Baucus of Montana receives from lobbyists in the healthcare and other industries, so that your readers will know why he votes the way he does, putting profits before people. He seems to be one of the most corrupt politicians we have seen in recent times but his conflicts or interest are rarely highlighted in the media. I'd also like to...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Talks between General Electric and Vivendi over the future of NBC Universal have stalled, the New York Times reported on Friday night.
Physorg (Free subscription) | yesterday
GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric, today announced a $2 million award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to develop wearable RFID sensors to alert people to the presence of environmental chemical agents in the air and sample exhaled breath to serve as an early indicator of disease.
Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | yesterday
Over at Downsizing Government, we focused on the following issues this week: The federal government is assuming a larger share of the Medicaid bill. General Electric might eventually need to be renamed Government Electric. The government’s mail monopoly lost $3.8 billion last fiscal year and could lose more this year. The $98 billion in improper payments made by the [...]
The Philadelphia Business Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
General Electric Co. and French conglomerate Vivendi continue to negotiate the value of Vivendi's 20 percent stake in NBC Universal, and remain at least $1 billion apart, according to a report from the Financial Times . (GE) (CMCSA)
The Los Angeles Business (Free subscription) | yesterday
General Electric Co. and French conglomerate Vivendi continue to negotiate the value of Vivendi's 20 percent stake in NBC Universal, and remain at least $1 billion apart, according to a report from the Financial Times .
Stocks to Watch Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
General Electric (GE) is apparently quibbling with France’s Vivendi over how much to give the latter in a sale of GE’s NBC-Universal to Comcast (CMCSA), according to the Financial Times, citing annoymous sources. Vivendi thinks its stake should be worth about $6.3 billion, GE says low valuation multiples for media [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Media and entertainment conglomerate Vivendi SA is nearing a decision on whether to sell its stake in NBC Universal, which would clear the way for the creation of one of the most powerful media companies in the world. The French company's finance chief has... NbcUniversal - Vivendi - Conglomerate - General Electric - Company
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
PARIS/NEW YORK, Nov 20 (Reuters) - General Electric and Vivendi are at least $1 billion apart in their valuation of the French group's stake in NBC Universal, the Financial Times said, dampening hopes of a swift sale.
24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | yesterday
The much-anticipated deal for Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) to take control of the NBC Universal division of GE (NYSE:GE) may die next week . Vivendi, which owns 20% of NBCU, believes that the entertainment and news company is worth much more than GE does. According to the FT, “General Electric and Vivendi are at least $1bn apart in their valuation of the [...]
Money Morning (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Bob Blandeburgo Associate Editor Money Morning With a possible buyout of General Electric Co.’s (NYSE: GE) NBC Universal Inc. in the works, Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA) is adapting to a... Money Morning is here to help investors profit handsomely on this seismic shift in the global economy. Money moves markets. But Money Morning lets you move first.
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investid | 11/08/2009
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