Altria to benefit from company split: Barron&#39;s
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Altria&#39;s  planned split into  separate U.S. and international tobacco companies will lift the  company&#39;s stock even though investors&#39; reaction has been only  lukewarm, financial newspaper Barron&#39;s said in its September 17  edition.
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The NASD and NYSE are to consolidate regulatory functions.
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Altria Group Inc.  said on Wednesday it plans to spin off its 89 percent stake in Kraft Foods Inc.  on March 30, completing the long-awaited separation of the maker of Oreo cookies from the Philip Morris tobacco companies.
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The proposal to break-up the businesses of bond insurers into two separate segments, with one covering "good" municipal debt and the other covering "bad" structured finance debt, may lead to years of litigation, said Bank of America analysts, in a note to clients, late last week.
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The $850 million settlement Marsh &amp; McLennan Cos. reached with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday will have a small but positive effect on its mutual-fund subsidiary, Putnam Investments, but is unlikely to resolve whether the Boston firm should split from its corporate parent, analysts said yesterday.
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Tobacco and food giant Altria Group Inc. is moving ahead with preparations to break itself up into two or three businesses, the company&#39;s chairman and CEO said Thursday.
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Devon Energy Corp. (DVN.A: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said it set a two-for-one stock split and would buy back up to 10 percent of its shares, as the company&#39;s cash levels
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The Altria Group said Wednesday that it would spin off its international tobacco business on March 28, freeing it to pursue cigarette sales more aggressively outside the United States.
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Altria Group Inc., the owner of cigarette maker Philip Morris and Kraft Foods Inc., may separate into two or three units after tobacco litigation dragged down the stock.
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The Dow Jones industrial average  (.DJI) is adding Bank of America Corp  and Chevron Corp   while dropping Altria Group Inc  and Honeywell  International Inc , Dow Jones said on Monday.
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Altria Group Inc  said on Wednesday it plans to spin off its international tobacco unit but will not give details on the timing of the much anticipated move until January.
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NEW YORK, August 25 (New Ratings) - Altria Group Inc (MO.NYS), the parent group of the tobacco company, Philip Morris, raised its regular quarterly dividend today from $0.
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Altria Group, the world's largest tobacco company, plans to spin off Philip Morris International under pressure from investors who want faster overseas growth and less risk from lawsuits by smokers in the United States.
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Altria Group Inc. MO.N, on Tuesday  posted higher quarterly profit, as higher income from its stake  in brewer SABMiller Plc SAB.L and the weak dollar offset  weakness in domestic tobacco and its Kraft food business.
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Altria and Kraft give investors a bigger cut of their cash.
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A spinoff of Philip Morris International would be the latest step in a restructuring process started in March when Altria spun off its majority stake in Kraft Foods.
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Lehman Brothers's  lagging stock price offers the chance to buy into a rising power as it seeks to join the company of larger investment banks like Goldman Sachs  and Morgan Stanley , Barron's reported in its June 18 edition.