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...likely to encounter serious anti-trust obstacles if they make bids, bankers say, and the two financial bidders, KKR and Philip Green, would load the retailer up with debt. With the volume of merger activity in Europe down 62% from 2000 and off 20% from 2001, according to Thomson Financial, bankers are elbowing for a place at the Safeway table. "There's a perception at many banks that if things don't pick up substantially there'll need to be more downsizing," says Geoffrey Nicholson, of Mercer Management Consulting. Merrill Lynch last week stepped down as Tesco's broker because...
Leading the way for Fairfield was junior center Rob Thomson, who scored a game-high 19 points and grabbed eight rebounds...
...some measures, insider activity hasn't been this bullish in five years. Insiders sold $882 million in stocks in July, the first month since 1997 that they haven't unloaded at least $1 billion, reports Thomson Financial. And buying has picked up, jumping 17% in July to $143 million. As those numbers show, executive sellers still far outnumber executive buyers. But that's almost always the case. Executives get so much stock as part of their compensation that they don't have to buy, and selling can amount to nothing more than prudent diversification or raising cash...
Kevin Schwenger, who tracks insider activity for Thomson, says insider selling typically runs $10 to $20 for every $1 of insider buying. The current reading: $6.15 to $1, "a very bullish signal," says Schwenger. David Coleman, editor of Vickers Weekly Insider Report, reaches the same conclusion. He focuses on numbers of shares traded, not dollars. In the first part of June, his weekly ratio of shares sold by insiders to shares bought by them hit a 15-year high of 4.2 to 1 but has since fallen to about 1 to 1, a rare episode of parity last seen immediately...
After resigning from his 12-year curatorship in 1984, Thomson returned to teaching as a professor of international relations, history and journalism at Boston University...