Finance

Investments

Retirement-Platform Giant Turns On Private Markets Tap

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Retirement plan provider Empower is making private market investments available to participants with help from some Wall Street titans.

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Power Corridor

Fed’s Tea Leaves Get Murkier

The U.S. Federal Reserve is all but certain to hold interest rates steady Wednesday, but the economy is still scorching – beating expectations in…

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Banking

Low Deal Flow Means Lower Bonuses for Wall Street

After 10 months of slower-than-anticipated deal flow, bankers are expecting less-than-stellar year-end holiday bonuses.

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Markets

Homebuilders Feel the Squeeze of Tight Housing Market

Shares of leading US homebuilders have plummeted since an industry-wide peak in July, according to a Financial Times analysis.

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Private Equity

Private Equity, Sports and Games Sidestep Frozen M&A Pipelines

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Dealmaking among private equity firms and in the sports and video games sectors has gone full steam ahead amid a global M&A freeze.

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Banking

Goldman Sachs Gets Into the Geopolitical Advice Game

Goldman Sachs is launching a sort of geopolitics-slash-technology research arm to advise clients who get anxious when they turn the news on.

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Power Corridor

Where the Money Went

The former chief executive of Alameda and star witness in the trial of her boss and former romantic partner, FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, described…

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Banking

UK Abolishes Cap on Bankers’ Bonuses

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority said Tuesday that it’s ending a cap on bonuses for bankers that’s been in place since 2014.

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Markets

Coca-Cola Sees Glass Half Full Even as Trade War Drains Fizz From Pop Sales

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Coca-Cola was one of several companies whose earnings last week flashed positive signs, despite the hail of uncertainty around tariffs.

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Finance

Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities Has Some Tips for SEC

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Top of the list is a warning over the rise of 24-hour trading, just as the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange pursue it.

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