Archive for July 10th, 2007
Top 10 PE funds for the first half of 2007
10 July 2007Here are the figures (for the first half of 2007) for money announced/invested in Canadian-based firms by private equity shops. At this point, $14.4 billion of transactions!
1. Apax Venture Partners $3.875 billion
1. OMERS Capital Partners $3.875 billion
3. Goldman Sachs $2.3 billion
4. Littlejohn & Co. $1.1 billion
5. Caxton-Iseman Capital $804 [...]
Whither the economy? Look at the new highs.
10 July 2007Here is a sample of the TSX stocks that hit new 52 week highs last Friday. The sectoral breadth is quite remarkable, and gives one some confidence about the state of our economy, despite the 50,000 manufacturing jobs that have been lost so far this year in Ontario:
Construction
Aecon
Bird Construction
CanWel Building Materials
Consumer
Pizza Pizza
Rogers Communications
Saputo
Energy
CIC Energy
Petrobank
Industrial
Dorel
Global [...]
TSX block list leaders
10 July 2007When you watch the monthly block stats, they start to lose their impact after a while. But using June as a snapshot, you can see how well National Bank is doing, for example. Certainly some of the banks appear to have pulled back their prop trading dollars, but the new team at National [...]