Private-Equity Deals Slow Down
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The past five years have become known as the "golden age of private equity," with easy credit fueling multibillion-dollar corporate takeovers, a seemingly endless stream of old-line U.S. companies like Chrysler and Burger King being scooped up by private-equity firms, and the minting of a cadre o...
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U.S. stocks ended modestly lower on  Monday as fresh concern about the economic outlook and a rise  in oil prices outweighed a frenzy of acquisition activity,  including what may become the biggest private equity buyout  deal in history.
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Business & money: PM-in-waiting challenged to curb private equity.
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Brokerage announces weaker-than-expected results dragged lower by a writedown in the value of some of its assets.
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Massive share buybacks can't quite counteract lagging net income.
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A good quarter is greeted with a lower share price.
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Anticipating a slowdown, investors are wary of paying high stock prices. Firms lower earnings expectations, too.
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The stock looks reasonably valued but some core businesses are struggling to grow.
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The strong appetite by private equity  firms for technology deals shows buyouts in that sector are  only going to continue -- with the focus on semiconductors and  software.
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Private equity firms have  demonstrated strength in numbers by teaming up to make  significant acquisitions, and as some firms keep expanding,  investors say the trend toward "club" deals will help them snag  assets that once were out of their grasp.
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The company talks down a recent inexplicable stock run-up.
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Profits take a plunge, but the stock price is stable.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- US venture capital investment and number of deals were down 4 percent with $4.56 billion invested in 467 deals in typical third quarter slow-down, according to the Quarterly Venture Capital Report released by Ernst &amp; Young and VentureOne
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The Nikkei average inched down by  midsession on Tuesday as investors took a breather from recent  speedy gains that were helped by a better result than expected  in the Bank of Japan's "tankan" survey.
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Until this week, few private equity firms expressed worries about what lawmakers in Washington could do to dampen the white-hot success of the buyout business.
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Talks over a possible takeover of  Cadence Design Corp.  by two private equity firms have  stalled over price, The New York Times reported on Monday,  sending the software maker&#39;s shares down nearly 5 percent.
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The strong appetite by private equity firms for technology deals shows buyouts in that sector are only going to continue -- with the focus on semiconductors and software.