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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Advisor Upside

Janney Montgomery Scott Sold in Major PE Deal

Janney will be sold from the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, marking another major equity deal in a busy year for the industry.

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Advisor Upside

How Interest Rates Cut Into Morgan Stanley’s Earnings

Morgan Stanley’s performance was held down by its wealth management division and a Federal Reserve that is stuck in neutral on rate cuts.

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M&A

Cleveland-Cliffs to Buy Canadian Steelmaker for $2.8 Billion

Steel giant Cleveland-Cliffs announced Monday that it will buy Canada’s Stelco Holdings for C$3.85 billion ($2.8 billion).

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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

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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