Dubai will ask creditors of two of its flagship firms for a standstill on debt worth billions of dollars as a first step toward restructuring Dubai World, the conglomerate which spearheaded the emirate’s breakneck growth. Read more from the original source:  Dubai World Asks for Time to Reorganize Debts - DealBook Blog …

... with rest of NYT biz journos, most of it inside baseball. Of more interest to us, how he started the DealBook and his role as one of the first journalist-entrepreneurs among the conservative lot at the paper. Here ... , he’s an entrepreneur.” More about the genesis: “In 2001, he came up with the idea for DealBook…‘If I could get inside their e-mail box every morning, that ...

Since debt securitization is simply a way of giving borrowers access to capital markets and enlarging the pool of financing available, the ability of German business to grow — or even survive — will depend on whether the market comes … Original post: In Germany, a Nostalgia for … Securitized Debt - DealBook Blog …

... Krakatoa and Logan leases, a Statoil spokesman told DealBook. Further details on the deal, including the price Cnooc paid ... American oil leases. A spokeswoman for the service told DealBook that it had no record of Statoil’s applying for a lease transfer to ... the obvious hurdles, a Statoil spokesman told DealBook that his company had “no concerns” about the chances of government approval. The ...

... point. But an article today from the New York Times DealBook does such a great job of illustrating this that I thought it was worth ... S. government. Taxpayers should hardly take comfort in that claim. Here's the DealBook explaining the insignificance of that $6.7 billion: ... year that could serve as a means to repay taxpayers. DealBook scoffs: Unfortunately, any hope of an I.P.O. completely ...

In my blog-reader, a New York Times DealBook summary of the results of the New Jersey gubernatorial election, "Attacking Corzine's Wall St. Ties, Christie Wins Race," is tagged with the byline "By DealBook on Goldman Sachs." Jon Corzine left (or was forced out by Hank Paulson) Goldman Sachs ten years ago. ...

... Sorkin makes $250,000 a year — including a Wall Street-like bonus based on how his DealBook blog performs — even as newsroom layoffs loom. No wonder everyone hates him. In a ... deal in which Sorkin gets "a bonus that is based, in part, on the financial performance of the various DealBook properties." It makes him, Sherman says, one of the highest-paid staffers at the Times. ...

New York magazine's feature on NY Times business reporter/Dealbook blogger/all-around wunderkind Andrew Ross Sorkin reports, "Sources say he earns $250,000, including a bonus that is based, in part, on the financial performance of the various DealBook properties (Sorkin disputes the number, but won’t be more specific). He is among the highest-paid staffers at the ...

... duck… Congratulations to Jon Najarian of OptionMonster.com, Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge, Andrew Ross Sorkin of DealBook and Karl Denninger of Market-Ticker. UPDATE: Reader MarketAddict informs me that: OptionRadar on StockTwits ... (TwitPic) 1.5 Million in Blatant Insider Trading Activity (Zero Hedge) Whispers About 3Com  (DealBook) Blatant Insider Call Buying (Market-Ticker)  

On Wednesday, the NY Times Dealbook email pointed to an article about Ralph Cioffi and Ralph Tannin, whom I know from working on Wall Street: Bear ... plugged-in as some of his Jewish colleagues. Tannin is half-Jewish as I remember and may have been considered expendable. The Dealbook email also included a followup on Intel-Galleon Group insider trading scandal: Rajaratnam Moves to Unseal 2000 Case ...