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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Patent Drop

Mastercard Patent Speedruns AI Development

The company’s access to a vast well of user payments data could go a long way in creating far more powerful models.

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Markets

Midday Market Brief: Tech Tanks

Some glum news from both the PC and semiconductor sector has tech investors feeling a little more cautious.

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Markets

Midday Market Brief: Slugged by Salesforce

The Dow is lower because of a rough outlook from the business-software giant, but the broader market is hanging tough.

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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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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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Private Equity

Private Equity Group Dodges FTC Antitrust Lawsuit

A US judge ruled Tuesday that private equity groups still have legal cover from lawsuits involving their portfolio companies.

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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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