Finance

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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Private Equity

All in the Franchise: Why Private Equity Loves the Business Model

It’s understandable if you failed to notice one meaty if unglamorous trend on Wall Street: Private equity’s love affair with franchising.

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Banking

Winner of 2024: Investment Bankers

As the dealmaking environment improved in 2024 thanks to the bull market and interest-rate cuts, investment bankers reaped a windfall.

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Banking

2024: The Year the Rates Were Cut

The Fed’s September rate cut turbo-charged the stock market, but can the market keep up its bull run for 2025?

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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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Finance

Why Stock Exchanges Want a Piece of Texas, ‘The Wall Street of the South’

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