Sep 27 2010

Dollar Thrifty Backs Hertz, Avis Seeks Delay

Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group on Monday reaffirmed its support for a takeover bid from Hertz Global Holdings, passing on what it described as a more lucrative but riskier offer from the Avis Budget Group. The sticking point, once again, appeared to be Avis’s refusal to match the $44.6 million breakup fee in Hertz’s offer, on [...]


Sep 24 2010

Hertz Declares Its Dollar Thrifty Bid ‘Best and Final’

Hertz Global Holdings is standing by its deal to acquire the Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, even after the Avis Budget Group unveiled on Thursday what it described as a significantly higher offer. Almost two weeks ago, Dollar Thrifty agreed to a revised cash-and-stock merger with Hertz, worth about $1.4 billion as of Thursday’s close. It [...]


Sep 23 2010

Avis Raises Its Dollar Thrifty Bid to $1.5 Billion

6:24 p.m. | Updated In the months-long bidding war for the Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, the Avis Budget Group is not going down without a fight. Avis on Thursday raised its offer for Dollar a second time, to about $1.5 billion, 11 days after Hertz Global Holdings raised its takeover offer for Dollar to about [...]


Sep 18 2010

Marc Faber: The Economy is NOT Recovering!

The government leads you to believe that we are in an economic recovery…however it is actually the total opposite. A depression and inflation are what the US is looking forward to.


Sep 12 2010

Hertz and Dollar Thrifty Agree to New $1.43 Billion Deal

6:55 p.m. | Updated Hertz Global Holdings agreed on Sunday to raise its takeover offer for the Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group to about $1.43 billion in stock and cash, trumping a rival offer from the Avis Budget Group. Under the new terms of the deal, Hertz will raise the cash portion of its offer, which [...]


Sep 2 2010

Avis Raises Bid for Dollar Thrifty

The Avis Budget Group said on Thursday that it has raised its cash-and-stock bid for Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group to more than $1.3 billion and maintained that its offer remains superior to a proposal by Hertz Global Holdings. Avis said it has raised the cash portion of its bid to $40.75 per Dollar Thrifty share [...]