Posts by: Steve Birenberg
Apparently, Ronald Lauder has decided to pay for his $135 million acquisition of Gustav Klimt’s Adele Bloch-Bauer I by monetizing half of his 15.8% stake in Central European Media Enterprises…
Given all the publicty created by the split between Tom Cruise and Paramount, I thought I'd offer some impressons from the perpsective of the stock market. The following post is…
Last week saw a flurry of acquisition and divestiture activity in the radio industry including news that the buyer of Disney's radio assets, Citadel Broadcasting, wants to renegotiate to lower…
Looking back at my recent posts on Sears Holdings (SHLD), I may have left the impression that improving same store sales trends are necessary to drive the stock higher. Just…
According to data from TNS Media Intelligence, advertising spending in the U.S., excluding paid search, fell by 0.3% in May 2006. According to TNS, this is the first comparable monthly…
I Am Famous. Sort Of. Back on August 1, 2006, Jim Cramer of CNBC and theStreet.com, did a segment on Comcast on his nightly Mad Money TV show. During the…
I am surprised that cable stocks have held up since last Thursday’s Wall Street Journal article which indicated a recent report from Cable Labs, the industry’s internal R&D arm, said…
I am no expert in retailing despite Northlake's long position in Sears Holding (SHLD) so when my colleague at StreetInsight.com, Jeff Bagley, wrote a scathing post noting that most of…
Sears Holdings (SHLD) earnings reports was largely in line. However, the stock traded sharply lower, giving up most of its gains so far in August. The decline can be attributed…
News broke yesterday in London that NTL Incorporated (NTLI) was again subject to takeover interest from private equity firms. Later in the day, Bloomberg reported that the company was in…
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