Last week, on May Day no less, investors in Furniture Brands International (FBN), the furniture company whose brands include Thomasville and Broyhill, appear to have elected three directors proposed by activist investors, Sun Capital, which owns about 9.5% of FBN’s shares. Sun offered to buy the company, whose stock has declined sharply since 2002, back [...]

Last week, I was in Copenhagen and it was hard to miss the banners for Bodies The Exhibition attached to light posts around the city, especially near Tivoli, a major tourist attraction. I didn’t go to the exhibit — there’s so many other more interesting things to do in Copenhagen than look at dead bodies, [...]

Judging by the news this morning about new subpoenas going out over auction rate securities, this is one more headache for Wall Street that’s likely to get worse. So I decided to take a look at how companies are talking about this mess in their recent filings. The short answer is a lot more than [...]

Motti Lichtenstein, CEO of the IDT Telecom subsidiary of IDT Corporation (IDT), departed on April 1 “to pursue other business opportunities” (press release here). If I were Mr. Lichtenstein, I’d be in no rush to find those opportunities, given the nice post-separation deal he and IDT have cooked up. (IDT has been a bit [...]

Of all the news that came out about Wachovia (WB) yesterday — the unexpected loss, the $7 billion in new capital, and the dramatic cut in the dividend — there were several new disclosures, primarily related to legal troubles — in the 8-K they filed yesterday that went largely unnoticed. We’ll take them in order:

Wachovia [...]