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Weekend reads: Prepare for a big week — a crucial Federal Reserve decision, tech-company earnings and a GDP report
It was mostly a week for stocks, particularly a rebound in the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index, as companies topped expectations on second-quarter earnings. The coming week brings a heavy dose of t...
The Best Tech CEOs: What Matters Most
Text size Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke spent years programming before he co-founded the e-commerce software firm. He has said he knows how long projects will take—and which initiatives to choose—because of ...
How Amazon’s $3.9 billion wager on primary care could change your Prime membership
Amazon’s AMZN, +1.52% $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical ONEM, +69.45% is the e-commerce giant’s biggest bet on healthcare to date, and it hints at a future in which primary care and streaming op...
Opinion: The SPACsplosion is about to become a liquidation frenzy — and that may be for the best
As the SPAC boom was beginning to rage two years ago, this column asked why in the world any company would want to be acquired by a former chief executive best known for executing one of the worst acq...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys More Occidental Stock
Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway purchased more Occidental Petroleum stock. AFP via Getty Images Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed the purchase of another large block of...
Unity to Buy IronSource for $4.4 Billion. IronSource Stock Surges, Unity Slumps.
Text size Wall Street seems to think the merger is a good deal for IronSource stock, which surged. Angela WeissAFP/Getty Images Unity Software will take over IronSource in an all-stock $4.4 billion me...
Merck Is Now in Advanced Talks to Buy Cancer Biotech Seagen for $40 Billion
Text size New Jersey-based Merck has a market value of more than $234 billion. Michael Vi/Dreamstime Merck & Co is in advanced talks to buy Seagen in a deal that could value the cancer biotech at...
Merck Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Seagen for Roughly $40 Billion or More
Merck & Co. is in advanced talks to acquire Seagen and is aiming to agree on a purchase of the cancer biotech in the next few weeks, according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that co...
Banks Get Burned by Risky Debt, Imperiling Buyout Activity
By Laura Cooper July 3, 2022 9:03 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Investment banks are facing big losses on leveraged buyouts they agreed to finance before markets soured, further chilling the out...
General Motors EV Partner Sees Director Buy More Stock
Text size MP Materials shares have slipped 21% so far this year Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg MP Materials stock has slipped this year, and director Randall Weisenburger bought more shares of the rare-earth...
Ceragon stock surges on acquisition offer from Aviat
Ceragon Networks Ltd. CRNT, -5.43% shares surged in the extended session Monday after Aviat Networks Inc. AVNW, -2.08% offered to acquire the wireless telecom equipment company and shake up its board....
JetBlue Raises Offer to Buy Spirit Airlines—Again
JetBlue Airways Corp. isn’t backing down in its fight to buy Spirit Airlines Inc. raising its offer yet again in an effort to outmaneuver rival Frontier Airlines. JetBlue on Monday proposed a $400 mil...
Digital World Acquisition Discloses Federal Subpoenas as Director Resigns
Digital World Acquisition the special-purpose acquisition company that plans to merge with former President Donald Trump’s social-media company, said a federal grand jury in the Southern District of N...
Spirit Airlines Sticks With Frontier Deal After Sweetened Offer
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Best and Worst Spots in the U.S. Housing Market, According to Lennar
Elias Stein Text size Jersey and Florida are hot. Austin and Seattle are not. On Tuesday, home builder Lennar ’s co-CEO Richard Beckwitt on an earnings call provided a tour of U.S. housing markets. “S...
Toys Are Staples, Making Mattel a Buy in a Recession, Says Analyst
Shares of Mattel rose this past Monday, but fell for the week, after an upgrade from Goldman Sachs analyst Michael Ng, who argued that the toy maker had the ability to navigate economic uncertainties....