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Cover Story: How Blackstone Made $12 Billion
Best Leveraged Buyout Ever: Hilton
The most profitable private equity deal in history—Blackstone's leveraged buyout of Hilton at the height of the real estate bubble—turned out to be badly timed but brilliantly executed. Plus, how this week's cover got made.
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Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Here are the highlights from President Barack Obama's speech about the U.S. leading a "broad coalition" against the Islamic State militant group. (Source: Bloomberg)
Headlines
- Blackstone's $26 Billion Hilton Deal: The Best Leveraged Buyout Ever
- CBS's $275 Million Thursday-Night NFL Headache
- Vail Resorts Buys Park City Mountain
- Europe’s Big Airlines No Longer Want to Fly in Europe
- RadioShack’s Last Hope for Survival: Shrinking Fast in Bankruptcy
- Can an Independent Scotland, Free of London's Dominance, Survive?
- Only Gen Xers Have Gotten Richer Since the Recession
- Southwest Hangs Up Its Low-Cost Jersey
- Dollar Gains on Fed as Gold Drops While Asian Stocks Fall
- U.S. Flew 2,700 Iraq Missions Before Obama’s New Push
- Treasury Is Weighing Action on Hedge-Fund Tax ‘Loophole’
- Treasuries Taper Tantrum Ruled Out by BofA Seeing Japan Buying
- Is China's Anti-Corruption Drive Working?
- Madoff Son Andrew Leaves More Than $15 Million in Will
- Israel’s Bennett Bucks U.S. by Seeking More Settlement Building
- Obama Says U.S. to Join EU in Tightening Russia Sanctions
- Hertz and Carl Icahn Make Peace
- China's Communist Party Wants a Few True Believers
- Clean-Air Rules Revive Demand for Dirty Coal
- How Putin Lowered the Price of Europe's Apples
- Charlie Rose Talks to Henry Kissinger
- Islamic State Smuggles Oil Into Turkey—With Hostages as Insurance
- Mixed Martial Arts Courts More Female Fans
- In China, It's Meet Me at Tmall
- Korea Ups Its Robots Game
- SwivelCard, a USB Business Card
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