Business news for Mon, 31 Dec 2007 & with word investor. 9 news.

The home builder's head of investor relations sold stock at a $300,000 loss.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - As more banks report write-downs tied to the global credit crunch, analysts say Wachovia Corp may have losses lurking in an area that has garnered less investor attention.

Reuters - As more banks report write-downs tied to the global credit crunch, analysts say Wachovia Corp may have losses lurking in an area that has garnered less investor attention.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian's Tracinda Corp will pay $684 million to acquire a 35 percent stake in Delta Petroleum Corp , the independent oil and gas company said on Monday.

AFTER missing out on Qantas, David Coe's controversial Allco Finance Group has made the first move to reinvent itself by unveiling a $200 million foundation investor to launch one of four planned specialist funds valued at up to $2 billion.

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Merrill Lynch on Monday completed a previously announced deal with Aegon , where it's selling its life insurance unit for $1.25 billion in cash. Aegon's Transamerica companies will continue to supply insurance and investment products, including offering the flagship Merrill Lynch Investor Choice Annuity product through the acquired Merrill Lynch subsidiaries. Merrill Lynch expects to record a gain on sale during the fourth quarter of 2007 and anticipates the transaction to be slightly accretive to earnings per share and to have a positive effect on return on equity in 2008 after redeployment of proceeds. Aegon expects the acquisition to add scale to its existing business and to have a marginally positive effect on earnings per share.

Vinod Khosla seems to relish rattling cages. He has become the nation's most visible investor in green tech, that fast-growing field of companies that develop new fuels and other eco-friendly products. Environmentalists couldn't be happier to see serious...

A Manhattan investor has terminated its contract to buy the former William Boyd Printing Co. plant in downtown Albany, the third time a proposed sale of the property has evaporated.

The chances for IPO markets to shake off the gloom of the fourth quarter could depend on relief from the credit problems that have dented investor confidence.