Cleaners protest at GS London HQ

Cleaners protested at Goldman's London HQ yesterday. Interestingly the protestors aren't even cleaners in Goldman's building, but rather, they are part of one of the largest cleaning companies, ISS. Apparently a private equity firm affiliated with GS bought out ISS last year. Protestors said their pay and benefits were too low.

Citadel may issue $2 billion in bonds

The Chicago based hedge fund may tap the capital markets for $2B in bonds.

Parsons thinks Icahn was a positive influence on TWX's stock

Interesting article in the NY Post regarding Parsons and Carl Icahn's influence on Time Warner. It seems that with all of the back-and-forth between Icahn and TWX, Icahn made out okay and Parsons appreciates the impetus.

Top 10 tech stocks of all time

Interesting SeekingAlpha analysis.

Two brokerage house regulators to combine

This deal has been in the works for the past few months, but it seems like now it's finally official. The National Association of Security Dealers and the NYSE's regulating organization are combining forces. It seems that the two had been doing very similar tasks and auditing the same brokerage houses, so the merger seems practical.

Google $1000?

An interesting, brief analysis that shows how Google could reach $1000 a share. Now that Google is over $500, let the debate begin when it will double up again.

Must be Merger Monday

The deal being reported by the WSJ is that Bank of America is buying Schwab's U.S. Trust unit for $3.3 billion.

"Buying U.S. Trust solves one of [BofA's] longstanding problems - trying to break into the elite world of wealth management. With U.S. Trust, Bank of America gets one of the most vaunted names in the wealth-management world."

2 Deals This Morning: Equity Office & NDAQ - LSE

Two deals of interest this morning. The NASDAQ deal is not definitive.

Blackstone buying Equity Office for $19billion (excluding debt)

"When including debt, the deal is valued at $36 billion, which tops the previous biggest leveraged buyout under this measure -- the $33 billion buyout of hospital operator HCA Inc. earlier this year. Excluding debt, the HCA deal was worth $21 billion."

NASDAQ ups its offer for the London Stock Exchange to $5.1 billion.

"New York-based Nasdaq offered 1243 pence ($23.56) a share, the minimum bid it could make under City of London takeover rules, compared to Friday's closing price of 1218 pence."

2nd ChiBus Column

Check out my second ChiBus column here.

Fortune Interviews Hank Paulson

Good interview from Fortune with new Treasury Secretary and ex-Goldman CEO, Hank Paulson.

Delta - US Airways coverage

The most up to date Bloomberg coverage on US Airways' proposal to buy out Delta for $8 billion is located here.

A lot hinges on the Delta creditor committee, DealBook notes.

Presentation on Macro Environment to Investment Management Group

Gave a presentation for about 7 or 8 minutes to the GSB Investment Management Group today. Spoke about some of the current valuations in the marketplace, stock returns in several industries/markets, the current yield curve scenario, and other trends.

I have uploaded the presentation. Check it out here.

Wall Street's Week Ahead

Reuters has nice coverage of what to expect in the week ahead.

New blog is the "hub" for private equity

PEHub is the latest blog to enter the Web 2.0 world of financial news coverage. The blog is focused on private equity, LBOs, etc. Check it out: www.pehub.com. Here is the press coverage.

By the way, one of the editors for pehub, which is run by Thomson Financial, is Dan Primack. Primack runs PE Week Wire, a daily email that a lot of executives at PE firms follow.

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Bloomberg predicts bonuses at 5 investment banks

It's been a while since I've last posted. Look out for a new ChiBus column this week.

An interesting article from Bloomberg included predictions of where bonuses will come in at the pure-play investment banks (it's easier to compute bonuses at the ibanks without commercial banking).