With the J. Crew sale to TPG Capital, Leonard Green & Partners and Millard S. Drexler now official, investors and analysts are already looking forward to the next possible buyout in the retail industry. Bain Capital’s recent acquisition of the Gymboree Corporation has helped stoke the fire. Paul Lejuez, a research analyst at Nomura, wrote [...]
More senators are in the money than ever, according to a Roll Call report that found 54 lawmakers are worth at least $1 million. The combined minimum wealth of the entire chamber jumped to $680 million in 2009, more than four percent higher than the previous year, according to financial disclosures made this year. Several [...]
NEW YORK – By now the bombshell allegations involving Brett Favre and the graphic pictures and suggestive voice-mail messages he sent to a female New York Jets employee are the focus of an N.F.L. investigation, but a side issue is simmering once again: Do women ask for it?Last week, on Oct. 7, the Web site [...]
It doesn’t take an in-depth investigation to figure out that many top Wall Street executives aren’t too pleased with the Obama administration. But who’d be so bold as to venture their opinion semi-publicly? We’re intrigued by a Dealbreaker blind item posted Tuesday, in which a tipster claims to have sat next to said mouthy Wall [...]
The volatility of the race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in Florida was underlined by a new poll that shows former health care executive Rick Scott running ahead of state Attorney General Bill McCollum by 10 points — a survey in sharp contrast to another poll this week that had McCollum rebounding. Scott leads McCollum [...]
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