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Wall Street's Most Successful Woman

Imagining the past year had Clinton clinched it in November. What to do when your friend is a mooch. How baseball keeps down and kicks out its few women umpires. Imagining the past year had Clinton clinched it in November. Louisa May Alcott's life of ...

From HEIDI N. MOORE, Double X,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Planned Parenthood,  Bill Clinton,  Louisa May Alcott,  Harvard University

IBM-Sun: Do They Have a Deal? Does it Matter?

On Monday, the markets started to question whether International Business Machines (IBM) and Sun Microsystems (JAVA) will really get a deal done. But there was no news that had been announced and no expectation of any news. IBM, which closed at $92.66 ...

From HEIDI N. MOORE, Voices | All Things Digital,  1 Apr 2009
Related Topics: IBM,  Sun Microsystems, Inc.,  Dow Jones,  Wall Street Journal

Who Needs Thain? Merrill Bankers Plan Davos Trip Anyway

An up-to-the-minute take on deals and deal makers. As that Wall Street Journal article above reports, Bank of America executives wanted to prevent Thain from going to the World Economic Forum this month. He had planned to attend anyway, even before ...

From HEIDI N. MOORE, Wall Street Journal,  22 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Merrill Lynch,  Wall Street Journal,  World Economic Forum,  Kenneth D Lewis,  Ronald Reagan

Bank of America-Merrill Lynch: A $50 Billion Deal From Hell

Mergers often prove troublesome, but few have set the land-speed record for disaster as fast as Bank of America’s $50 billion acquisition of Merrill Lynch. It is official. In Bank of America’s acquisition of Merrill Lynch is a candidate for the title ...

From HEIDI N. MOORE, Wall Street Journal,  22 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Merrill Lynch,  Bank of America,  Kenneth D Lewis

Bank of America: Can a $15 Billion Problem Be Solved by Buying 513,000 Shares?

An up-to-the-minute take on deals and deal makers. Wednesday, Bank of America said CEO Ken Lewis and members of the bank’s board had bought BofA shares to show confidence in the bank’s future in the wake of revelations that write-downs at Merrill ...

From HEIDI N. MOORE, Wall Street Journal,  22 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Kenneth D Lewis,  Wall Street Journal,  Bank of America,  Ronald Reagan

Does Citigroup’s New Chairman Matter?

Late Wednesday, Citigroup said Richard Parsons would be its new chairman, succeeding Sir Win Bischoff, a veteran investment banker based in London. Bischoff had been appointed chairman 15 months ago when then-Chief Executive Charles O. Prince stepped ...

From HEIDI N. MOORE, Wall Street Journal,  22 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Citigroup,  Richard Parsons,  Vikram Pandit,  Charles O.,  Dick Parsons

Citigroup Chairman: ‘Not the Easiest of My 44 Years in Banking’

Today Citigroup announced that Richard Parsons, its lead director, would become chairman of the firm as Sir Win Bischoff leaves that role. Below, Deal Journal presents the goodbye memo from ‘Sir Win,’ as he is known. We have today announced the ...

From HEIDI N. MOORE, Wall Street Journal,  21 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Citigroup,  Richard Parsons

Crisis Q&A: What “Bank Nationalization” Means For You

It only takes one good bank-stock rout to turn Americans into big believers in government control. Yesterday’s precipitous plummet in shares of Bank of America, PNC Financial, State Street and other financials may have done the job; the controversy of ...

From HEIDI N. MOORE, Wall Street Journal,  21 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Bank of America,  American International Group,  State Street,  Fannie Mae,  Freddie Mac

Chrysler, Meet Your New Italian Overlords at Fiat

An up-to-the-minute take on deals and deal makers. Italy’s Fiat profits from a business alien to most Americans: making small cars. Many Americans, then, aren’t familiar with the scope and history of the Italian auto maker, famous here for the boxy ...

From HEIDI N. MOORE, Wall Street Journal,  20 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Fiat,  Ford Motor Company,  Wall Street Journal,  Commerzbank,  Alfa Romeo

Bank of America: How to Lose $20 Billion of Value in 2 Trading Days

Success has many fathers; failure is an orphan. Then there is Bank of America’s acquisition of Merrill Lynch, a deal skating dangerously close to the definition of failure after last week’s announcement that BofA would take $24 billion more in ...

From HEIDI N. MOORE, Wall Street Journal,  20 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Merrill Lynch,  Bank of America,  Wall Street Journal,  Kenneth D Lewis,  Morgan Stanley

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