Archive for June, 2008
Kevin O’Leary is a rock star
30 June 2008You’ve got to hand it to Kevin O’Leary (“KO” to his friends), of Dragon’s Den fame. Decade of Daddy Fund ™ is launched! According to a press release dated June 27th, his O’Leary Global Equity Income Fund “has successfully completed its initial public offering of 3,335,000 units at a price of $12.00 per [...]
Bay Street Buzz
29 June 2008This information courtesy of Bill Vlaad, of Vlaad & Co.:
“Doug Guzman has been promoted from the Head of Investment Banking, Canada of RBC Capital Markets (“RBC CM”) to the Head of Global Investment Banking.
In New York, RBC CM has brought on seven investment bankers from Bear Sterns into their Municipal Finance Healthcare group. Kathy Costine, [...]
“Breaking news from the Globe and Mail”
27 June 2008“Hello, Voxcom? Double your staff monitoring the alarms at the Globe. Send them extra coffees, it could be a busy weekend.
I’m afraid someone will break in and ransack the place. Who knows why. Maybe the Thomsons keep a few leftover A Y Jacksons in a darkroom or something.
But there’s obviously nobody in the building.
How [...]
Media Hat Tip #s 29, 30 and 31
27 June 2008In case you missed it, Stephen Grocer, the Deal Journal Columnist at The Wall Street Journal, picked up on our “Put Citigroup out of its misery” blog post from last night. Here’s the link to his WSJ online piece.
Some sleepy journo at Macleans Magazine also grabbed the same piece. Other than spelling my name [...]
Put Citigroup out of its misery
26 June 2008In the crazy ideas category, this may certainly fall. But with Goldman Sachs slapping Citigroup (C:NYSE) with a sell – despite Citigoup shares being at a 10 year low – now is the time for crazy thinking. In the spirit of the ABN AMRO deal (see prior post “Matt Barrett the real winner [...]