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[Business Wire] - CHICAGO----General Growth Properties, Inc. today announced Chief Executive Officer Adam Metz and President and Chief Operating Officer Thomas Nolan have agreed to remain in their roles at GGP for up to one year following completion of the company?s restructuring, expected in October 2010.
Gen Growth Prop annunces executive transition plan Co announces that CEO and COO will remain in their position for up to one year to oversee co's emergence from bankruptcy 2010 09 08 01:49
General Growth Properties, Inc. (NYSE: GGP) today announced Chief Executive Officer Adam Metz and President and Chief Operating Officer Thomas Nolan have agreed to remain in their roles at GGP for 2010 09 07 21:04
We performed an analysis of the correlation of the stock prices of the companies that we have covered over the last two years to the broader stock market. Based on the price movements in the selected stocks and S&P 500 over the last decade, we mapped the pattern seen in the degree of correlation that is exhibited when there are changes in the overall market direction owing to change in the “perceived” macro-situation.
For the purpose of our analysis, we divided the total period under consideration (December 31, 2000 till August...
BHP Billiton's bid to buy Potash turns hostile. Despite being called "grossly inadequate" by Potash's (POT) board, mining company BHP Billiton (BHP) says it will take its $38.6B bid to acquire Potash directly to shareholders of the fertilizer company. BHP chairman Jac Nasser said that the cash offer represented a 32% premium over a 30-day trading period. BHP confirmed Wednesday that it intended to make an...
As an equity investor, a great place to look for ideas is in the portfolio holdings of other successful investors.
Whitney Tilson has become a well known value investor. Some would suggest that he is more successful in marketing himself than anything else, but the performance of his hedge fund T2 Partners has been excellent since inception.
REITs have been having a good year while popular averages (i.e. DJI) were slipping and sliding, primarily in Q2. The YTD change for the Dow Jones Industrials and Dow Jones REIT Index are compared:
______________DJI___REIT Index Dec 31, 2009___10,428_____182 Mar 31, 2010___10,856_____198 Jun 30, 2010____9,774_____188
Great article entitled"Rob Arnott's Magic Indexing Formula" by Shawn Tully at Fortune magazine recently. The article describes Arnott's investment research approach and how his FTSE RAFI US1000 index, which is offered by Charles Schwab as a mutual fund and by Invesco Powershare as an ETF (PRF), has outperformed the S&P500 index by 2.4 percentage points per year since inception (12/30/2005). Impressive. For those of you unfamiliar with Rob Arnott and his RAF indexing approach, it is definitely...
Commercial real estate purchase transactions are on the rise, and we believe this trend will have a long shelf life.
Since the beginning of the year, we've observed an increase in both the number and the size of purchase transactions across our commercial real estate coverage. The REITs we track are making acquisitions that range in size from a few million dollars to hundreds of millions of dollars, in either single asset transactions or portfolio deals.
As you've undoubtedly already heard, May was a brutal month for the markets. But at the same time, it was also brutal to many hedge funds who couldn't seem to effectively 'hedge' against the 8% decline in the indices. Compare these numbers to say those of the first quarter hedge fund performances and you'll see night and day. Below are some recently updated performance numbers from some of the most prominent hedge funds out there and some of the results will surprise...
Whitney Tilson’s T2 Partners continues to outperform the market despite the recent volatility. T2 was down just 2.8% in May while the S&P 500 declined 8%. Tilson has been particularly prescient over this market cycle and was a notable real estate bear heading into the credit crisis. Despite the recent market disruption Tilson is not concerned that we are repeating 2008. In his May letter to clients Tilson detailed his market outlook:
So if last month was analogous to late 2007, is the situation today like...
By Kristen MacBeth The nation's second-largest mall operator will keep two of its chief executives when it exits bankruptcy. The chief executive and chief operating officers for General Growth ...
This week's announcement that Redlands Mall will close Sept. 30 puts a temporary lid on questions about the shopping center's future, but the long-term fate of the prime downtown property remains ...
Swedish retailer H&M is expected to present plans for a new store at the Inner Harbor Thursday afternoon to a Baltimore design panel. H&M, a men's, women's and children's apparel chain, and ...
General Growth Properties has boosted its planned offering of 2011 exchangeable notes to US$2.25bn from US$2.15bn, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The mall ...
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NEW YORK (Market Intellisearch) -- GGP options saw interesting call activity today. A total of 344 put and 1,746 call contracts were traded raising a low Put/Call volume alert. Today's traded Put ...
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Investors mine ideas from many different sources, but many investors overlook a resource that provides some of the best ideas from the greatest minds. Most people believe that the world of hedge ...
Small caps General Growth Properties, Hemispherx BioPharma, and Pacer International are reviewed for trading potential. By James E. Brumley They may each be at different points in the beginning of ...
If you followed hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and bought shares of mall operator General Growth despite bankruptcy concerns, you would be smiling now. By Zack Miller, contributorSeptember 8, 2010 ...
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