New board of directors proposed for Star Tribune - Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Star Tribune’s proposed board of directors will include former Wall Street Journal publisher L. Gordon Crovitz, the newspaper will announce today. Crovitz is one of four well-connected executives that the newspaper’s major secured lenders, slated

STOCKS: Wall Street down after China sell-off - North County Times
NEW YORK —- After giving the stock market solid gains during August, investors still worried about the economy backtracked a bit during the final day of the month. Stocks fell in light trading Monday after a plunge in China’s main stock market sent

Former Wall Street Journal publisher among those picked to lead post - Los Angeles Times
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former publisher of The Wall Street Journal and the head of a newspaper company are among four new board members chosen by the Star Tribune’s main lenders to lead the newspaper after it emerges from bankruptcy protection. The

Report: OC Register owner to file for bankruptcy - Long Beach Press-Telegram
NEW YORK - Freedom Communications Inc., the owner of the Orange County Register, is expected to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week, according to a published report. The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site Sunday that the

Wall Street Lobby Fights Against Derivatives Overhaul - Huffingtonpost.com
Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — Wall Street is suiting up for a battle to protect one of its richest fiefdoms, the $592 trillion over-the-counter derivatives market that’s facing the biggest overhaul since its creation 30 years ago. Five U.S. commercial

Wall Street Skids on China Concerns - ABC News
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Monday as concerns about the global economy’s health weighed on Wall Street, following a hefty sell-off in Chinese equities. Energy shares led the decline after the sharp drop in China’s main stock index increased

Wall Street falls amid deals - Financial Times
US stocks fell on Monday amid a flurry of deal-making as investors focused on a further steep decline in Chinese stocks. Walt Disney concurred to buy Marvel Entertainment , the group that created characters such as Spider-Man, for $4bn in cash and stock

Profit Taking Contributes To Lower Close On Wall Street - RTT News
(RTTNews) - After moving sharply lower in early trading, stocks remained mostly negative throughout the trading day on Monday. While the major averages did not see much follow-through on their initial downward move, they remained stuck in the red

Wall Street’s Record Profit One Sign of the Economy Easing, but - PR Inside
As the economic news starts to show just a little brightening, the actions of Wall Street and the large investment banks are something that Americans are watching. As some of the big Wall Street firms, such as Goldman Sachs, and J.P. Morgan

Stocks Decline From Shanghai to New York as China Index Enters Bear - Bloomberg
Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — Stocks slid worldwide, trimming a sixth straight monthly gain for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, as lower metal and oil prices dragged down commodity shares and banks fell on concern their rally outpaced their profit

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UK ready to send additional $11 billion to IMF - Boston Globe
LONDON— European governments should band together to give the International Monetary Fund a $75 billion boost, Britain’s treasury chief Alistair Darling stated Monday. In an article for the Guardian newspaper, Darling states Britain is ready to provide

Hearing to gather info on Wis. campaign finance - Forbes
MADISON, Wis. — A public hearing is set for Tuesday on the system that grants candidates for Wisconsin political office to file campaign finance reports electronically. The Campaign Finance Information System includes how much a candidate has raised

Officials to discuss new state finance system - WTHR
Indianapolis - Indiana plans to roll out a new say financial management system in mid-September. Say Auditor Tim Berry and Office of Management and Budget Director Ryan Kitchell plan to discuss the rollout of the new system during a news

Finance - Business Life Lebanon
Obtain up to the minute exchange rates There are no translations available. Bank Muscat (BM) matched the asset growth in the banking sector in Oman. Of the aggregate credit in 2008, it captured 40.3% share or RO3,727.7mn and its total assets

UPDATE 1-MOVES-Syndicate Bank, MF Global, Fifth Street Finance - Forbes
Aug 31 (Reuters) - The following financial services industry appointments were announced on Monday. To inform us of other job changes, e-mail moves@thomsonreuters.com. MF Global said it has appointed Paul Farrell as global head of Foreign Exchange

UPDATE 1-Finance minister rules out help for Africa Israel - Reuters
JERUSALEM, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Israel’s finance minister ruled out government intervention to help financially distressed real estate developer Africa Israel Investments ( AFIL01.TA ) meet payments to bondholders. The ministry also stated on Monday

AIG weighing many options for ILFC: sources - CNBC
American International Group Inc and Steven Udvar-Hazy, head of its International Lease Finance Corp unit, are weighing several options for the aircraft leasing business, including breaking up the company, two sources familiar with the matter

Eric Friedland Joins Fitch Ratings as Group Credit Officer for U.S - PR Inside
Fitch Ratings announced this day that Eric Friedland, 46, has joined the firm as Managing Director and Group Credit Officer for the U.S. Public Finance Group. Mr. Friedland will oversee the group’s rating criteria and credit policy. He will report to

U.S. Files Formal Request for UBS Client Data - ABC News
ZURICH (Reuters) - The United Says has launched the formal process to get account details of 4,450 American clients of UBS suspected of tax evasion, the Swiss finance ministry stated on Monday. Switzerland agreed to reveal the names to U.S

State Assembly committee addresses computer problems on candidates - River Falls Journal
A state Assembly committee will hold a public hearing Tuesday about problems with the new computer system in which candidates file their financial reports. The hearing is informational in nature. It comes after the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign

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Filed under: Lennar Corp’A’ (LEN), Stocks to Purchase, Housing

Lennar (NYSE: LEN) has had one of the most impressive rebounds of all the home builders. The stock has been up as much as 340% since bottoming last November.

Wall Street’s current consensus for Lennar’s earnings this year is a loss of $2.88. In my thought, that’s too low. I think Lennar will have little trouble surprising Wall Street analysts later this year.

Lennar is a good momentum buy.

Continue reading Home builder stock #4: Lennar (LEN)

Home builder stock #4: Lennar (LEN) originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Movers and shakers, Rumors, Investments

Like many other institutional investors, China’s sovereign fund pushed much of its asset base into cash during the market downturn. That hurt the hedge funds where much of the money had been placed and industries the Chinese had begun to invest in around the world.

China is beginning to deploy huge amounts of capital from China Investment Corp. (CHIC) again. The fund has about $300 billion in assets.

According to Bloomberg, China Investment has invested “many times” the $500 million that CIC was reported to have placed in hedge funds and private-equity firms in June.

The change of heart is an important one, not just for money managers. CIC put money into a number of financial institutions in the West only to see a great deal of it lost in the financial collapse last year. It now appears that the wounds that come with those investments are no longer holding the Chinese back.

The news about CIC is part of a more massive, and not entirely welcome, phase of China putting money overseas. Recently an attempt by Chinalco, backed by central government money, to purchase Rio Tinto (NYSE: RTP) was rebuffed, causing tension between the mainland and Australia. China has had more success in the oil and gas sector. It recently loaned Brazilian oil giant Petrobras $10 billion for its important off-shore drilling program. China has also shown interest in the oil production in Iraq.

China is using the recession to buy assets that are less high-priced than they would be in normal economic times. It is probably also driving hard terms on the fees it pays to hedge funds. In an era when capital is scarce, huge money can, to some extent, make its own rules.

There are growing concerns about what China’s overseas strategic aims are as its puts more capital outside its borders. But, many institutional money managers and developing countries don’t care. Cash is cash.

Douglas A. McIntyre is an editor at 24/7 Wall St.

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Good news for oil industry - Skynews.com
Oil companies could soon be thanking Rice University in Houston, who are working on a project to help oil companies recover more oil without having to drill a single new well. ‘We’re pumping them down holes and they flow through the system and then a

Wiggling Their Toes at the Shoe Giants - Star News On the web
TODD BYERS was among more than 20,000 people running the San Francisco Marathon last month. Dressed in shorts and a T-shirt, he might have blended in with the other runners, except for one glaring difference: he was barefoot. Even in anything-goes

Will Virtualization Undermine Network Equipment Vendors? - Seekingalpha.com
And the first wave of virtualization projects in many enterprises have had very tiny to do with the network. That is not necessarily an encouraging sign. Recently I asked the question of whether or not most of today’s networks could even keep up

Bovine TB viewed as ‘nuisance issue’ - Dubuque Telegraph Herald
OMAHA, Neb. — Bovine tuberculosis has created high-priced problems for the cattle industry in states where the disease has appeared, but it appears to be a manageable threat. Nebraska and Texas are investigating positive cases of bovine tuberculosis to

Celebrating 50 years: From industrial to green jobs, A-B Tech’s focus - Asheville Citizen-Times
After being laid off by a Haywood County contracting company in 2007, Cloud knew opportunities in his trade were drying up. He believed health care held the promise of superior job security, so he applied to a one-year program in surgical technology at

GM power has shifted to China - Detroit Free Press
SHANGHAI — Largely overlooked in last month’s sweeping management reorganization of the new post-bankruptcy General Motors Co. was a recentering of power to Shanghai. Nick Reilly went from overseeing GM’s Asia operations based in Shanghai to

LifeLock Announces Next Generation of Services That Help To Combat - Earthtimes
TEMPE, Ariz. - (Business Wire) LifeLock, the industry leader in proactive identity theft protection, this day announced the implementation of a new and innovative identity protection system that will provide superior and broader protection to current and

Peter Andre ‘looking for new love’ - New Kerala
‘Am I ready to find love again? I feel superior than I did a few weeks ago. I don’t have anyone yet, and it’s been too hard to think about moving on until now, but I am getting there,’ the News of the World quoted him as saying. However, the

Insurance - Business Life Lebanon
Obtain up to the minute exchange rates There are no translations available. t’azur, the new name in Takaful, focused on product innovation within the Islamic Insurance industry at the World Takaful Conference, which ran from the 14th – 15th April

Plot takes evolving turn for Massive Screen - Dubuque Telegraph Herald
DVDs and books are offered for sale at The Landmark Movie Theatre in Los Angeles. This day, young movie-watchers look increasingly like Molly O’Connor. A junior at the University of Dallas, she still goes to the cinema occasionally, but often is just as

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Editorial: Denounce the spending, but take the money - MetroWest Daily News
Congressional Republicans lined up to denounce on principle President Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus bill - a wasteful big-government giveaway, they said. No GOP Home member voted for the bill and only three Senate Republicans. Now the

STATE HOUSE Money spent on lobbying Legislature declines - Morning Sentinel
AUGUSTA — The bad economy has injured even lobbyists. Companies, nonprofits and associations spent almost $1 million less on lobbyists this year than they did in 2007, the last time the Legislature met for a long session, according to the Maine ethics

The Next Step for Microfinance: Taking Deposits - Time
Some 30 years ago, the field of microfinance was born from a radical concept: poor people, when lent small amounts of money, will pay it back in a timely manner. In the meantime, that money can be put to use in ways that help boost income—goat

Agencies struggle as their needs rise and donations drop - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
April St. Clair stands on the front porch of her West View home. Her family is one of those for whom the United Way is ramping up its fundraising campaign. Five years ago, Mrs. St. Clair relied on rental assistance, food pantries, toy drives and free

Kitrell: Children need to learn about money - Knoxville News Sentinel
As a parent of daughters ages 15 and 10, I’m quickly realizing that children grow up way too fast. We’ve recently watched as close friends move their children to college and can see how swiftly this time approaches for our family. This has caused my wife

Dave Says: How to get more money from your boss - Eagle-Tribune
What’s the best way to ask for a raise at work? I think the first 10 sentences that come out of your mouth should be about gratitude. Let your boss know how much you like being there and all the things you appreciate about the business and your job

Money tips for Aug. 30 - Canton Repository
The International Home of Pancakes at 4764 Portage St. NW at the Strip is participating in a national promotion that lets kids 12 and younger eat free when an adult entree is purchased. IHOP’s Kids Eat Free offer runs nightly through Sept. 13. The

Reznor ‘rebels against industry greed’ - Digital Spy
Trent Reznor has revealed that his decision to quit touring was based on rebelling against music industry greed. The Nine Inch Nails frontman, who recently confirmed the final live shows of the band, has insisted that the rock group will continue to

PUSD told to complete study on property uses - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
POMONA - Consultants for the school district have suggested its leaders think about completing a study on properties in the district’s control. The consultants, who include specialists in school construction and financing, told Pomona Unified board

Ozzie: [Bleep] it - Chicago Sun-Times
NEW YORK — The needle on the Ozzie Guillen seismograph flicked a bit after Friday’s loss to the New York Yankees. After what he witnessed in a 10-0 loss to the Yankees on Saturday at the new Yankee Stadium, the needle went to 9.0. » Click to

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Realtors uncertain over training benefits - Stuff
The pending introduction of increased training stipulations for novice real estate salespeople is drawing a mixed response from industry participants, with some saying it will lift standards and others describing it as a disaster which will push up

CII to organise conference on ‘Reel World and Law’ - Indian TV
MUMBAI: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is organising the third edition of its legal conference series on “Reel World And The Law” on 19 September in Mumbai. The CII Conference aims to elucidate the industry members of the changing

US bank failure tally rises to 84 in 2009 - Economic Times
WASHINGTON: Three more US banks failed on Friday, bringing the total to 84 so far this year, as the industry continues to grapple with deteriorating loans on their books. Regulators shuttered Affinity Bank of Ventura, California, Bradford Bank in

Non-GMO’ Seal Identifies Foods Mostly Biotech-Free - The Ledger
Alarmed that genetically engineered crops may be finding their way into organic and natural foods, an industry group has begun a campaign to test products and label those that are largely free of biotech ingredients. With farmers using gene-altered

Ben Bova: Health reform won’t be real by Sept. 15 - Naples Daily News
President Harry Truman tried to produce a universal health-care program in his re-election campaign of 1948. In the 1960s we got Medicare and Medicaid, even though the American Medical Association fought bitterly against what was then called

Insurance - Business Life Lebanon
Obtain up to the minute exchange rates There are no translations available. t’azur, the new name in Takaful, focused on product innovation within the Islamic Insurance industry at the World Takaful Conference, which ran from the 14th – 15th April

The beat goes on: A roundup of music industry books - Austin American-Statesman
T he music industry is supposedly dying, but it’s not going away quietly. A contentious debate this year about on the internet radio royalties turned into who gets paid what in the pop economy. Congressional hearings on a proposed merger of Live Nation and

FSA yet to properly investigate structured product industry - Times On the internet
With the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the American investment bank, just over two weeks away, attention will inevitably focus on the seismic impact that it had on stock and bond markets. For most market watchers, September 15 was

Funds of hedge funds fight back after Madoff - Economic Times
LONDON: The fund of hedge funds industry is being forced to reinvent itself after the Madoff scandal and hefty client outflows, and will emerge from the crisis smaller but in superior shape than many had expected. Investors pulled more than $150

Mayors will help market Isles in L.A. - Honolulu Advertiser
Hawai’i’s four county mayors will join say and county tourism officials next week for a marketing campaign in Los Angeles to promote Hawai’i as a visitor destination. The promotional campaign, titled “Hawai’i: A Thousand Reasons to Smile,” was

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Hypnotist withdraws bank lawsuit - Las Vegas Sun
Las Vegas success seminar trainer and hypnotist Marshall Sylver has withdrawn his lawsuit against a bank over real estate loans and is attempting to resolve the dispute out of court, his attorney stated Saturday. Sylver and three of his companies

Real Estate transfers - Circleville Herald
• Triton Development, LLC to Westport Homes Inc., Lots 78, 85, 91, 110, 126 in Chestnut Estates, Commercial Point, $112,500. • Ashley A. and Joseph Smith to Kyle L. Schmidt, 7785 High St., Orient, $79,207. You must be a site Subscriber to view

Real estate briefs - Naples Daily News
Fort Myers-based Stevens Construction Inc. finished construction of the 7,310-square-foot Barnes Family Chiropractic office building at 4302 Del Prado Blvd. The new facility features a contemporary exterior with a metal-clad canopy that resembles

Jennie Zopfi, Randy Rice Join Ideal Realty GMAC - Chattanoogan
Jennie Zopfi has joined Ideal Realty GMAC Real Estate as principal broker of the Chattanooga office. Ms. Zopfi’s husband, Steven “Randy” Rice, also joined Ideal Realty GMAC Real Estate as an agent. Ms. Zopfi has more than six years’ experience

Nation’s Leading REO Asset Managers to Offer Real Estate Agents - PR.com
What are the secrets for selling distressed properties? What are the foreclosure sales opportunities in the future? The nation’s leading REO asset managers will answer these questions and more in a rare exchange with real estate agents at the 2009

Tax credit gives real estate market nice nudge - News Tribune
As a disabled veteran, Larry Graham had trouble with his knees and found his rented Ottawa farmhouse tough to navigate. When the field spraying hurt his lungs, it was time to move. Graham and his wife of 55 years, Artie, started a home search in

A roundup of real estate personnel items - Naples Daily News
Ashley Bourn has been named sales manager of the month for July for the company’s Florida West Division. Bourn joined Toll Brothers in June 2006 as a sales associate at Firano at Naples and was promoted to sales manager in July 2008. She is

Consumer Confidence Building in the San Mateo Real Estate Market - PR.com
With overbids and multiple offers making their way back into the San Mateo County real estate market, the increased number of pending sales and the limited availability of homes for sale, consumer confidence appears to be building despite national

U.S. real estate developer tackling Italian football - Marketwatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — A Texas real estate developer is about to get a crash course in the world of Italian soccer. Timothy L. Barton, CEO of JMJ Holdings, announced plans earlier this month to purchase AS Bari, a club based in the southeastern

Realtors uncertain over training benefits - Stuff
The pending introduction of increased training requirements for novice real estate salespeople is drawing a blended response from industry participants, with some saying it will lift standards and others describing it as a disaster which will push up

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Filed under: Deals, Rumors

While eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) stated earlier this year that it was planning to spin off Skype in an initial public offering in 2010, it is now being reported that eBay is looking for a buyer willing to pay $2 billion or more for the internet telephone service provider.

Those interested in a buyout may include Andreesen Horowitz and Index Ventures, which were early investors in Skype before its eBay acquisition in 2005. A group of well-known venture capital and large private equity firms are pooling resources to join the bid, according to a source close to the deal.

It’s expected that if the investor group is successful in acquiring Skype, it would run the company privately and prepare it for an eventual initial public offering. It isn’t clear if current Skype CEO Josh Silverman would continue to lead the company after any acquisition. Under Silverman, Skype grew revenue to $551 million last year, and eBay has said it expects the company to top $1 billion in revenue in 2011.

eBay bought Skype for an estimated $3.3 billion in 2005 in one of the biggest venture capital deals in Europe. Following the deal, Skype founders Niklas Zennstr

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Xtra-vision sold by Blockbuster for €32m - Independent
HOME entertainment specialist Xtra-vision has been sold by US group Blockbuster to a new company called Birchhall Investments in a deal worth €32m. Birchhall Investments is backed by NCB Ventures and Pageant Holdings, a client firm of NCB Wealth

International Space and Defense Giant Triples Its Investment in - PR.com
Distributive Management and its DataDrill performance measurement software have continued to outperform expectations for one of the world’s largest space and defense organizations, headquartered in St. Louis, MO. The DataDrill metrics dashboard

Ethos 360 Retained by Showbizzle.com for Investment Round and Investor - PR.com
Showbizzle.com CEO, Charles Rosin, is excited to announce that they’ve retained Ethos 360 to offer business consulting, investor relations and capital sourcing services. Portland, OR, August 29, 2009 –( PR.com )– Showbizzle.com is a digital

Winners: ‘Drive Fore Diabetes’ tourney raises $13,000 for Camp Buck - Reno Gazette
The more than 100 volunteers, from local businesses and organizations as well as individuals — too many to list individually — who helped to make Artown 2009 a success, including those from the Boys and Girls Club of Truckee Meadows, the Kohl’s A

Purchase Ram Kaashyap Investments Ltd: Abhishek Jain, StocksIdea.com - Top News India
Technical analyst Abhishek Jain of Stocksidea. com has suggested investors to purchase Ram Kaashyap Investments stock for short term. Mr. Jain anticipates the stock to hit a target of Rs 25. The stock may face some resistance around Rs 19 levels, but after

Airline’s £30m investment to fly 300,000 out of EMA - Nottingham Evening Post
A LOW-COST airline “with a difference” is investing £30m in a move to East Midlands Airport which could create 250 jobs. Jet2.com will base a Boeing 757 airliner at the airport from next Might, taking thousands of tourists on flights to hotspots like

Cedar Funding trustee outlines effort keep disputed property - Santa Cruz Sentinel
MCH — The trustee in the Cedar Funding bankruptcy is readying his last salvo to reverse hundreds of deed transfers that were made right around the time the Monterey investment company entered bankruptcy proceedings. In a status report filed Friday

Get educated about investing - Kilgore News Herald
If you have kids at home, you’re no doubt aware that it’s the traditional backto school time. But even if your days of parentteacher conferences are in the past, or even in the future, you can still find a place in your life for education — and

TD AMERITRADE Institutional Survey: Independent Registered Investment - Newsblaze.com
OMAHA, Neb. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - A new survey of independent registered investment advisors (RIAs) released today by TD AMERITRADE Institutional, a division of TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: AMTD), shows RIAs surveyed continue to report

Report: Cerberus investors choose to leave funds - Boston Globe
NEW YORK— The Wall Street Journal reports that investors in the main hedge funds of New York-based private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP want out and are asking for the return of more than $5.5 billion, or about 71 percent of fund

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