Comments on: Blackstone Booms on Its First Day of Trading

By: State Investment Funds: Beware of the Big New Buyers

State Investment Funds: Beware of the Big New Buyers — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:29:13 +0000

[...] of you who stopped counting. Even if most of this capital gets invested through private deals like China’s $3 billion investment in The Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) in May or the Barclays deal, it still allows Blackstone to [...]

By: China scraps currency rules for companies

China scraps currency rules for companies — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:11:32 +0000

[...] growing reserves have induced it to create a state-run private equity fund to buy into ventures in other [...]

By: Is the United States on Sale?

Is the United States on Sale? — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:27:56 +0000

[...] years ago, China plunked down $3 billion for a stake in The Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX), the U.S. private-equity powerhouse, after which the China Development Bank anted up $3.03 billion for a piece of Barclays PLC (NYSE [...]

By: With Buyout of Merrill, Bankruptcy for Lehman, Wall Street Plays "Let's Make a Deal"

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:29:55 +0000

[...] I’ve ever seen,” said Peter G. Peterson, co-founder of the private equity firm The Blackstone Group LP (BX), who was head of Lehman in the 1970s and a secretary of commerce in the Nixon administration [...]

By: Buyout of Merrill and Bankruptcy of Lehman Heightens Worry of U.S. Credit Crisis Pain Still to Come

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:04:00 +0000