Finance

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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Finance

US Regulator Finds ‘Unacceptable’ Deficiency Rates At Audit Firms

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board called out an “unacceptable” level of deficiencies at the country’s biggest auditors.

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Markets

GoDaddy Is Flooring It to the Top of the S&P

GoDaddy now sits just outside the top 10 performing companies in year-to-date returns, outpacing everyone in the Mag-7 except for Nvidia.

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Banking

UBS Quarterly Profit Doubles Market Forecast

UBS appears to have regained its form, reporting $1.1 billion in net income for the second quarter, doubling analyst estimates.

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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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Finance

Buffett’s $300B Cash Pile, Fed by Apple, Spurs Investment Guessing Game

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Buffett acolytes are primed to be receptive to new ideas after Berkshire’s more contrarian bets over the last decade have proven prescient.

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