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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M&A

Blackstone and Vista to Take Workplace Software-Maker Smartsheet Private for $8.4 Billion

Blackstone partnered with fellow buyout expert Vista Equity Partners to take workplace software company Smartsheet private for $8.4 billion.

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Banking

BofA Bets on Brick-and-Mortar with 165 New Branches by 2026

Bank of America is counting on customers putting down their screens and driving over to an actual bank to speak with a human.

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Banking

German Government Investigates Itself Over UniCredit’s Shock Commerzbank Stake Purchase

The German government launched an internal probe to figure out how it was blindsided by UniCredit staking a major position in Commerzbank.

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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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Banking

Fed Majorly Backtracks on Proposed Bank-Capital Hike

The proposal to hike holdings for the biggest lenders to buttress market shocks was sliced more than in half.

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Markets

Can a Texas Stock Exchange Really Lock Horns with Wall Street?

The Texas Stock Exchange is hoping to become the center of a new financial mecca in the Lone Star state when it launches next year.

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Finance

Warfare is ESG Now

Defense stocks are taking up a growing slice of the ESG (environmental, social, governance) pie. Reports attribute that to the war in Ukraine.

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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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