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

Parts and Reputation: Boeing to Buy Supplier After Quality Control Issues

Boeing has agreed to buy one of its biggest suppliers, Spirit AeroSystems, for $4.7 billion, about 20 years after selling it.

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Energy

Oil Executives Predict US Production Dip If Acquisition Spree Continues

A quarterly survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas polls around 140 energy firm executives in Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico.

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M&A

LVMH Clocks in With L’Epée 1839 Acquisition as CEO Takes Surprise Stake in Rival

LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton acquired Spiza, the parent of high-end Swiss watchmaker L’Epée 1839, on Monday.

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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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Advisor Upside

Fidelity Wins Latest Battle in ETF Fee War

Fidelity is making good on a promise to impose a new fee for companies looking to feature ETFs on its platform. Issuers are not impressed.

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Markets

Midday Market Brief: Wait and See

Stocks are mostly stuck in neutral as investors await two key pieces of data on Wednesday.

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Markets

Midday Market Brief: Eurovision

Far-right gains in the European Parliament elections put investors globally in a tentative mood, though the dollar got a big boost.

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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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