As Barnes & Noble Education was bid down another 7.5 percent on Thursday, to a new low of $5.18 a share, the retail bookseller Barnes & Noble rose on renewed speculation of a deal to take the company private. It was a thin report, however; it ran in Dealreporter and was reported by Bloomberg. The account claimed BN has been working with Guggenheim Partners for as long as six months to help explore a sale. BN has worked with Guggenheim before, but spending six months looking for a buyer without results is not necessarily a strong buy sign. Deal Reporter claims […]
