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...And new car sales in the UK fell to their lowest level in two decades last month as the global shortage of semiconductors hampered factory output. 3....
...According to SEC filings, Elon Musk’s company is the $60bn hedge fund’s second largest holding, behind Bristol-Myers Squibb....
...In Woody Allen’s Match Point (2005), a callow English go-getter (Jonathan Rhys Myers) moves up the storeys of ambition and perfidy....
...Other poor investments in the TPG V fund include Freescale, the semiconductor maker in which four private equity firms jointly invested, and Energy Future Holdings, now valued at 5 cents on the dollar....
...Blackstone and TPG are providing their investors with dramatically different valuations for one of their biggest common holdings, Freescale Semiconductor, highlighting the latitude that private equity funds...
...The firm’s paper losses on just four buy-outs – of Energy Future Holdings, the former TXU, Freescale Semiconductor, Harrah’s Entertainment and Univision Communications – amount to nearly $2.9bn (€2.4bn)....
...Freescale Semiconductor, a big supplier of chips for mobile phones spun off by Motorola two years ago, accepted a $17.6bn takeover bid in September from a group including Blackstone, Carlyle Group, Permira...
...Earlier this year, KKR attempted to prise away Freescale, another semiconductor business, which was already in late-stage talks with rival buy-out group Blackstone....
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...Trades that received a boost amid LBO activity this year were the $33bn buyout of hospital group HCA and the $18bn deal for Freescale Semiconductor, according to Lehman Brothers....
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