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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Markets

Midday Market Brief: Nvidia Can’t Do All the Work

The chipmaker was flat on Wednesday, and the other 499 stocks in the S&P 500 didn’t have enough oomph to drive the market higher.

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Indicators

The Inverted Yield Curve Usually Predicts a Recession — Until Now

The yield curve has now been inverted for around 400 trading sessions, and there’s no recession in sight. So what gives?

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Markets

Midday Market Brief: The Nasdaq Touches a New High

Investors are getting activated after a long weekend, but they were still able to push the tech-heavy index to a new peak.

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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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Markets

Most Pandemic-Darling Stocks Aren’t Too Healthy

The 50 companies with the biggest pandemic-era gains have collectively lost $1.5 trillion in market value since the close of 2020.

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Media & Entertainment

Can a Paramount Sale Break the Mold of Media Mergers?

Just what, exactly, would Sony and Apollo Global Management be getting out of a Paramount Global acquisition?

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Banking

Jamie Dimon Seems Unfazed About JPMorgan’s Tepid China Business

Despite some business “falling off a cliff” the CEO said other operations “should hopefully grow over time.”

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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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