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Warren Buffett's Berkshire In Talks To Buy OxyChem For $10 Billion: Report
Tuesday, September 30, 2025 - 4:41pm | 453Read More...Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (NYSE:BRK) (NYSE:BRK) is in talks to acquire Occidental Petroleum Corp.‘s (NYSE:OXY) chemical unit, OxyChem, in a deal valued at roughly $10 billion. If finalized, it would be Berkshire's biggest purchase since 2022 and could be completed soon, according to the Wall...
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Carl Icahn Reportedly Continues To Hold Large Short Position In GameStop
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 - 7:08am | 391Read More...Billionaire investor Carl Icahn started shorting GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) during the height of the "meme-stock" frenzy around January 2021 and continues to hold a large position, reported Bloomberg, citing sources. Short Position: Icahn commenced building the short position when...
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Occidental Petroleum Announces Ghana Asset Sale: What Investors Need To Know
Thursday, October 14, 2021 - 1:31pm | 497Read More...Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: OXY) announced on Wednesday afternoon a major asset sale analysts say has helped improve the company’s near-term financial outlook and has the stock positioned to be an outperformer in coming years. What Happened? Occidental announced the sale of...
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'Icahn Herd' Continues To Get Stampeded
Tuesday, December 30, 2014 - 11:41am | 631Read More...Activist investor Carl Icahn on Monday disclosed a 7.7 percent stake in Manitowoc Company Inc (NYSE: MTW). A little over a year ago, an article on Benzinga was skeptical on Icahn Enterprises LP (NYSE: IEP). At that time, the issue had swooned from its all-time high made on December 9,...
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Icahn To Push For Walgreen Company Inversion Deal?
Friday, September 5, 2014 - 12:39pm | 155Read More...Walgreen Company (NYSE: WAG) spiked Friday on an unconfirmed rumor that activist investor Carl Icahn will announce a stake in the company and push to get a so-called tax inversion deal completed. As of noon Frida, there were no filings concerning an Icahn acquisition of Walgreen shares at the...
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Carl Icahn And The Family Dollar Poison Pill
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - 2:37pm | 474Read More...The big news Monday was Carl Icahn’s reported stake of 9.393% in Family Dollar (NYSE: FDO). Shares traded to $66.68 before the 8:00 p.m. ET after-hours closing on Friday and rose further on Monday to a high of $70.30 on the news. The company's performance has struggled over the past...
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Brazilian Stocks Among the Few That Miss the Global Rally
Thursday, January 2, 2014 - 5:05pm | 1930Read More...How good was the 2013 stock market rally? So good that it was hard to find a stock market around the world that showed a loss on the year, which may be why there's concern the rally was just too big. That said, among the biggest losers was Brazil -- whose benchmark Ibovespa Index fell 15.5...
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Transocean And Carl Icahn Strike An Accord; Analysts See Limited Upside
Monday, November 11, 2013 - 1:20pm | 148Read More...Transocean (NYSE: RIG) reached an agreement on Monday with famed corporate raider Carl Icahn. Shares of Transocean have been trading up over three percent following the pre-market news release. Transocean is set to pay a $3 dividend, which will benefit Icahn, who is the company's third largest...
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Carl Ichan "Destroyed Both Yahoo and Motorola"
Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 6:01pm | 207Read More...Carl Ichan may be regarded as a brilliant investor, but don't tell Global Equities Research that. Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research, has sent out a note responding to Ichan's advice for Motorola Mobility Holdings (NYSE: MMI). “Carl Ichan has destroyed both Yahoo (NASDAQ:...
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Carl Icahn Appears On CNBC To Talk Lionsgate Tender Offer (LGF)
Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 1:22pm | 292Read More...Carl Icahn appeared on CNBC this afternoon to talk to Melissa Lee about his ongoing efforts to acquire Lions Gate Entertainment (NYSE: LGF). Vice Chairman of Lionsgate's Board Michael Burns had appeared on the network earlier today and said that Icahn was basically trying to "steal the company,"...
