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NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuters) - Private equity firm Sun Capital Partners is exploring the sale of Emerald Performance Materials, a specialty chemicals company that could be worth more than $700 million, according to four sources familiar with the matter....

By Olivia Oran May 8 (Reuters) - Guggenheim Partners has poached senior bankers from Barclays Plc's retail team as the $180 billion asset manager looks to bolster its investment banking business. The moves highlight a broader trend across Wall Street...

No one should be surprised that Sturm, Ruger & Co. reported record sales for the first three months of 2013. Even before the Newtown tragedy, in early 2012, the Fairfield-based gunmaker had to halt new sales for a few weeks just to keep up with the...

NEW YORK, May 2 (Reuters) - Lazard Ltd said on Thursday it hired former J.P. Morgan Chase & Co investment banker Larry Slaughter as a managing director and vice chairman of its investment banking business. Slaughter was at JPMorgan for 26 years and...

* Boston Consulting Group sees some banks dropping full-service trading * Big Wall Street banks to post returns on equity of 15-16 percent-BCG * Boutique firms will post ROE of 30 percent or more-BCG By Lauren Tara LaCapra NEW YORK, April 30 (Reuters)...

April 29 (Reuters) - Wall Street securities analysts revised their ratings and price targets on several U.S. companies, including Time Warner, 3M Co and Caterpillar, on Monday. HIGHLIGHTS * 3M Co : JP Morgan cuts target price to $95 from $97; rating...

April 26 (Reuters) - Wall Street securities analysts revised their ratings and price targets on several U.S. companies, including Amazon, Wynn Resorts and Celgene, on Friday. HIGHLIGHTS * Amazon.com Inc : JP Morgan, others cut price target on the...

Reports: GDP for the first quarter, 7:30 a.m.; Michigan consumer sentiment for April, 8:55 a.m. Local earnings: AbbVie Inc., Acco Brands Corp., Amcol International Corp., Aon Plc, Ventas Inc. Other major earnings: Alcatel Lucent SA, Autoliv Inc.,...

What with the terrorist attack in Boston, the deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant in Texas and the inane vote against gun control in the U.S. Senate, you may have missed the news late last week about Stephen Feinberg. The reclusive co-founder of the...

Business moguls who favor stricter gun-control laws -- among them Bloomberg LP founder and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, financier George Soros and entertainment honcho David Geffen -- are in the unique position of being able to put their money...

Somewhere in the third year of Tribune Co.'s marathon Chapter 11 proceeding, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Carey looked out at a Delaware courtroom packed with high-priced attorneys and conceded the case had broken down into what he called a...