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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Finance

Activist Investor Elliott Tightens Grip on Oil Giants Phillips 66 and BP

Elliott has played a central role in pushing out a CEO at Starbucks and convincing conglomerate Honeywell that it needed to break up.

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Hedge Funds

Hedge Funds Are On an Equities Shopping Spree

Punxsutawney Phil may see six more weeks of winter, but hedge funds aren’t waiting to emerge from their bearish slumber.

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Industrials

Heavy Metal Rings Out Loud on Wall Street

Shares of US steel and aluminum companies rose Monday, bolstered by a fresh round of tariff threats from the Trump administration.

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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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