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...Group, an American private-equity firm, for $136 million. Boto said its manufacturing operations had peaked and the sale was a good deal for shareholders. Angry minority shareholders said they were being shortchanged and criticized the sale as an effort to benefit insiders. Led by shareholder and Hong Kong stock-market watchdog David Webb, they tried to block the restructuring, but narrowly lost a vote. "Christmas is canceled," Webb lamented. That left Kao's animation unit as the core of the company. "What do these guys know about the animation business?" Webb asked...
...tired of Redstone's upstaging him. Karmazin denies any material conflicts and says he resigned because "there was too much about Mel and Sumner, and I didn't think it would go away." He says he was concerned that press scrutiny of their relationship was hurting the company's stock price...
Karmazin's departure wasn't the blow it once would have been. One analyst rushed out a report titled "Mel Who?", and the stock barely budged. Just a few years ago, Karmazin was a Wall Street darling, highly prized as a tough, budget-minded operator who could make the free-spending creative forces at Viacom toe the line. But his star faded as Viacom consistently fell short of financial targets...
With property values soaring across the country, more and more IRA investors are putting some of their funds directly into real estate instead of just the usual stocks, bonds and mutual funds. Housewert, 58, has put half his retirement savings into investment properties and is considering pumping in even more. "Because of historically low interest rates, the volatility in the stock market and political unrest, people are really starting to look for more tangible assets for their retirement," says Tom Anderson, president of PENSCO Trust Co., an independent custodian of retirement plans. Here are some tips...
...Baseball America magazine dubbed the “Best Power Hitter” in the draft, as well as its “Best Five-Tool Talent,” built significant buzz in the weeks preceding the affair. Expected by experts to go in the first round, his stock slipped in recent days—aided, in part, by a 2-for-14 skid in Princeton’s NCAA Regional loss against Virginia...