Disney buying Marvel Entertainment in $4 billion deal
In what Walt Disney Co. President and CEO Robert Iger called "a great opportunity at the right time," Disney is buying Marvel Entertainment Inc. in a $4 billion cash-and-stock deal, putting Spider-Man under the same umbrella as Mickey Mouse. (DIS) (MVL) feeds.bizjournals.com |
CME Group August volume fell year-over-year (AP)
Derivatives exchange operator CME Group Inc. said Wednesday that its August volume averaged 10.2 million contracts per day, down 7 percent from a year earlier. us.rd.yahoo.com |
MVC Capital Files 8-K and Issues Unaudited Year-End Net Asset Value (Business Wire)
PURCHASE, N.Y.----MVC Capital, Inc. , a publicly traded business development company that makes private debt and equity investments, today filed an 8-K and issued its unaudited net asset value for the year ended October 31, 2009. us.rd.yahoo.com |
US small businesses (at FT.com)
Economists should sometimes think like nanoscientists. Very small particles of a substance often behave quite differently to larger chunks. So, too, the US economy. While it appears to be recovering in aggregate, many small businesses are suffering an entirely different experience. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Guess Blows Away Consensus, Goes Vertical
Quarterly results and a rosy look ahead give investors a spark to stampede into shares of the jeans maker. forbes.com |