Gabelli Asset Management News

Shut off the cameras and unplug the lights. This week's exclusive Satwaves interview was conducted privately with Media and Entertainment Analyst Brett Harriss, of Gabelli & Company .

Fitch Ratings has withdrawn the 'AAA' ratings assigned to the following preferred stock issued by Gabelli Global Multimedia Trust Inc.

Buying Toledo's Dana Corp. for $15 a share would pile $2.4 billion of new debt onto ArvinMeritor, Inc., making it the most leveraged of all auto parts companies, analysts said.

Dec. 3 -- Lawrence Haverty, a portfolio manager at Gamco Investors Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Deirdre Bolton and Jon Erlichman about Comcast Corp.'s agreement to start a joint venture with General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal unit, creating an entertainment company valued at about $37 billion.

Nov. 25 -- Mario Gabelli, chief executive officer of Gamco Investors Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Betty Liu, John Erlichman and Adam Johnson about Kraft Foods Inc.'s $16.1 billion offer for Cadbury Plc and the possibility that Hershey Co.

The Board of Trustees of The Gabelli Global Deal Fund declared a $0.44 per share cash distribution payable on December 17, 2009 to common shareholders of record on December 14, 2009.

The Board of Trustees of The Gabelli Utility Trust authorized the Funda s investment adviser to explore the benefits to shareholders of a rights offering for the Fund.

Nov. 12 -- Lawrence Haverty, a portfolio manager at Gamco Investors Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Carol Massar and Matt Miller about Walt Disney Co.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lee Cooperman & Charlie Gasparino I wanted to write this morning about Charlie Gasparino's interview with Ted Forstmann which appeared in Friday's Wall Street Journal.

Barbara Marcin of the Gabelli Blue Chip Value Fund chooses three stocks for the long run.

Neah Power Systems, Inc. , www.neahpower.com , the Company developing fuel cell-based renewable energy solutions, announced that CEO Chris D'Couto will appear on "Winning Strategies with Tim Connolly" , Friday, November, 6th 2009 at 10:00 a.m. ET instead of the previously announced date.

Mutual fund investors often make the mistake of ignoring closed-end funds because they're small.

Bill Gross and his PIMCO shop have started using a term for our economic future, calling it "the New Normal." I hate this term.

If you missed our first post, we've already covered our first set of notes from the Great Investors' Best Ideas Symposium .

This is part 1 of our post, so check back in tomorrow for part 2! Last week the Great Investors' Best Ideas symposium took place in Dallas, Texas and some prominent hedge fund managers presented actionable investment ideas which we wanted to cover.

Just now, while a guest on CNBC, superstar investor Mario Gabelli said thatA DirectTV "is going to be made love to by Verizon or AT&T".A Well, we all knew that John Malone wasn't going to sit quietly by as his arch-rival Comcast swallowed NBCU and god knows what else.

Famed New York money manager Mario Gabelli began his speech at the Great Investors' Best Ideas symposium last week by pointing out that nearly every major market index was about where it was a year ago.

Thomas Schroepfer, President of Smokefree Innotec Inc. , will appear on "Corporate Strategies with Tim Connolly" on October 2, 2009 at 9:30 a.m. ET.

Each quarter, Morningstar stock analysts review the shareholder letters and holdings of a select group of fund managers in an attempt to learn more about their stock-selection process.

U.S. stocks rose for the ninth time in 10 days as an unexpected drop in jobless claims and growth in housing starts and manufacturing in the Philadelphia region added to evidence the economy is recovering.