IT MIGHT not have many friends left among US hedge funds or, for that matter, Australian institutional investors, but not even the able to knock Macquarie Bank off its perch for too long.
consortium could return with another bid, the banking teams at ABN about $200 million in revenue - more directly, $130 million in investment banking fees - by failing to land Qantas.
earnings per share level which, depending on what deals fall into the current period, translates to an estimated full year net profit But before anyone sheds a tear for Macquarie, any shortfall in If anything, both brokers reckon that the performance of these in the short term.
Tuesday (JPM forecasts $1.407 billion, ABN slightly higher at $1.44 assets.
Macquarie's shares ended the day 32c lower at $89.98.
numbers by 169,000 over the last quarter to 445,000.
Optus's annual results today, the figures must be placed in the in the 3G space.
while Telstra had 1.2 million at the end of December.
mobile-phone market share, prompting Optus in recent weeks to step At Telstra's first-half results in February, boss Sol Trujillo Optus's total number of mobile-phone subscribers rose by 60,000 to 6.74 million for the three months to March 31.
results are announced.
equity tiddler, Affinity Equity Partners, lobbed a $6.20 cash offer Colorado, which sells Mathers and Diana Ferrari shoes, JAG jeans and owns Williams the Shoemen stores, has been in a trading halt pending an announcement since Monday.
Affinity owns 84 per cent of the company, having failed in its former Coles chairman Solomon Lew, who now owns 10.
2 per cent, helped thwart its then $4.70 a share offer.
The offer is well above market talk of $5 a share.
Colorado last traded at $4.93.
basketball courts, there might be some money to be made riding the good business sense, according to UBS retail analyst Michael Peet.
and general "action" sports clothes and accessories, has been undervalued compared to its international peers.
US retailer Zumiez had a rip-snorting 2006, with sales increases of 45 per cent, and same-store growth of 13 per cent. Peet calculates that Billabong, which draws nearly half its revenues from North America, could deliver sales growth of about 60 per cent in the current financial year.
Macquarie Bank-wannabe, property group MFS Diversified Group, has from smaller punters.
Using adviser UBS, the placement was completed at between 85c and 90c, compared to the market's last trade of 87c.
Life, MFS has also expanded its management with the appointment of Bill Grounds as its chief executive, from his former role as Group.
He's a bona fide Hollywood star, and Steven Spielberg and Brad Pitt are among his fans, but what Eric Bana treasures most is his life as a suburban dad.
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