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Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), the son of a wealthy Wall Street financier, is pursuing his own lucrative career with his father's firm.

Stock Investing Course (AXcess News) New York - If its in the WSJ it must be so, or at least that what the street is assuming when the Wall Street Journal reported that KKR, Providence Equity and the Blackstone Group were in early discussions about making a bid for Knight Ridder (NYSE: KRI), whose shares closed up 53 cents, or 0.88 percent, at $60.93 Thursday on those rumors.

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Stock Market Game But the WSJ isn't the only publisher with a nose for news, AXcess News reported two weeks ago that Knight Ridder was heading for a break up.

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Stock Investing Game Though to cover itself, the WSJ said the buyout groups were concerned the $4 billion price tag at the current market level was too high, which is not true if you take a Carl Icahn approach in first evaluating the properties, which KKR and Blackstone are more than capable of doing.

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Journal Prime Rate Street Wall What the WSJ missed was the fact that the largest shareholders in the deal are institutional and most likely well connected enough to have sought out potential players in a break up before publicly voicing their desire to do just that.

Stock Market News Knight Ridder owns some flagship newspaper properties in the San Jose Mercury and the Philadelphia Inquirer and if it came down to it the pieces could fetch a premium if costs werelowered through attritional layoffs and several of its properties sold for quick cash. Not that the Mercury or inquirer wouldgo on the chopping block immediately.

Stock Investing Basics Half the problem is the most likely buyers themselves, The Tribune Co. (TRB), Gannett Co (NYSE: GCI),or Denver-based MediaNews Group, are cutting their own costs and laying off newsroom workers. So the old adage "sell to whom" may apply.

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