Nasdaq considered selling piece of self: report
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Nasdaq Stock Market Inc  has weighed selling a piece of itself to an overseas investor to help it seal a deal to buy Nordic exchange operator OMX AB , the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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(InfoWorld) - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting rules that govern listed companies are too much for Creative Technology, which has renewed plans to delist its shares from the Nasdaq stock exchange. "The administrative overhead and cost of the evolving and increasingly burdensome U.S. reporting obligations has become significant," the company said Thursday, announcing plans to end its U.S. listing on Aug. 1. Less than 10 percent of Creative's trading volume takes place on Nasdaq, it said. "Creative believes the costs of maintaining its Nasdaq listing and continuing with its U.S. reporting obligations are no longer in the best interest of the company and its shareholders," it said. Creative's shares will continue to be traded on the Singapore stock exchange. Creative, which makes MP3 players and PC sound boards, has been down this road before. In 2003, Creative announced similar plans, saying the volume of shares traded in the U.S. was low and most analysts that cover the company are based in Singapore, where its headquarters are located. The delisting plans were announced then also held out the possibility of reducing the company's administrative overhead and cutting costs. "We believe it is in our shareholders' best interest that we initiate steps that can facilitate the elimination of our SEC reporting obligations and our intended delisting from Nasdaq," the company said at that time. The 2003 delisting plans were never realized. Whether or not Creative proceeds with its delisting plans this time remains to be seen. The company announced plans to file a formal delisting notice with the SEC on July 23, but reserved the right to delay or withdraw the filing for any reason. Once the filing has been submitted, Creative's shares can be delisted within 10 days. Assuming Creative goes through with its delisting plans, the company must continue reporting financial results under SEC rules for at least one year after its delisting.
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U.S. security company Brink's Co.  may this week be urged by yet another major investor to sell part or all of itself, according to Barron's.
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US stock market Nasdaq, which had a takeover move in London rejected, sees quarterly earnings triple.
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Concerns mount that Warren Buffett's holding company might be overvalued.
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An analyst's buy-sell-hold recommendation is more -- and less -- than what you think.
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The London Stock Exchange  has  been left with few options to defend itself from Nasdaq Stock  Markets Inc.'s  unwanted attentions after British  financial markets broker ICAP's  decision not to pursue  fresh merger talks, analysts said on Tuesday.
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Bear Stearns  is in serious  talks with several outside investors, including Warren Buffett,  about selling as much as 20 percent of the firm, according to a  report in The New York Times online edition on Wednesday.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting rules that govern listed companies are too much for Creative Technology, which has renewed plans to delist its shares from the Nasdaq stock exchange.
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If all you care about is reported profit, you wouldn't want any part of owning the Wall Street Journal. The paper, for all its cachet and influence, is at best marginally profitable; the profits of its parent, Dow Jones, come primarily from electronic data distribution. But the Journal, financial...
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IBM IBM.N is looking to sell  its personal computer business in a deal that could be worth up  to $2 billion, The New York Times reported on Friday, capping a  gradual withdrawal from the business it pioneered.
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State-linked investment funds in Qatar and Singapore are interested in buying almost one third of the London Stock Exchange from the US Nasdaq market, media reported on Monday.
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The family that controls Dow Jones & Co.  said for the first time it would consider selling the publisher of the Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. , dropping its outright opposition to his $5 billion bid.
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A board member of US media giant Dow Jones may face civil action over breaches of securities laws.
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The Motley Fool - Open-source software leader Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT - News) reports earnings after the bell today, and analysts are expecting a doozy. With on-again-off-again reports that Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL - News) may enter the Linux market, Red Hat's stock has certainly been volatile, but management has been quite sanguine about further competition from the database giant. Is this one huge strategic misstep or savvy thinking? Read on for my thoughts.
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IBM is looking to sell its  personal computer business in a deal that could be worth up to  $2 billion, The New York Times reported on Friday, capping a  gradual withdrawal from the business it pioneered.
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Nasdaq Stock Market Inc  has given potential suitors until the end of the week to express interest in its 31 percent stake in the London Stock Exchange Group Plc  but has not yet received any offers, the Wall Street Journal reported.