Buyouts

Jobless rate rises to 4-year high of 5.7 percent

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business


WASHINGTON — Stores, factories and other businesses large and small showed workers the door last month, sending unemployment to its highest rate...

Report: Clear Channel Deal Collapsing

AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business


SAN ANTONIO — Shares of Clear Channel Communications Inc. plummeted in late trading Tuesday, following a report that the media company's private...

Henry Kravis' Transparent Greed

Tom Woodruff | Posted 10.31.2007 | Business


Tom Woodruff

You have to give it to Henry Kravis. Few people would have the nerve to stand up in front of a crowd of pension fund and other institutional investors and joke about jacking them for billions.

$25 Bil Buyout Of Sallie Mae In Jeopardy

AP | Marcy Gordon | Posted 09.26.2007 | Business


The planned $25 billion buyout of student lender Sallie Mae was thrown into jeopardy Wednesday after the investors said terms of the deal were no long...