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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Markets

Midday Market Brief: Hiring Freeze

The job openings report for April fell to its lowest level in about three years, giving investors pause about the impact on profits.

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Markets

Midday Market Brief: Just Another Meme-Stock Monday

The market appeared yawn-inducing at the broad index level, but there was a flurry of activity under the hood.

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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

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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Markets

For Better or Worse, The Stock Market is All About These 10 Stocks

The top 10 stocks have reached a weight not seen since the 1970s, with their market cap accounting for about one-third of the entire index.

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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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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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