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Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows files for U.S. bankruptcy
Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital has filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, according to a court filing in the Southern District of New York on Friday. Three Arrows C...
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...
Apollo’s Stock Is Expected to Rise. Here’s Why.
Apollo Global Management is the most misunderstood of the publicly traded alternative asset managers. But the stock could represent significant upside for those who wish to take a look, according to R...
Zendesk Close to Striking Buyout Deal, Sources Say
Zendesk Inc. is close to a deal with a group of buyout firms, according to people familiar with the matter, resurrecting a failed attempt to sell itself in what would be one of the biggest private-equ...
Ken Griffin Moving Citadel From Chicago to Miami Following Crime Complaints
Billionaire Ken Griffin is relocating his hedge-fund firm Citadel from Chicago to Miami, the third major employer to announce the move of a corporate headquarters from Illinois in the past two months....
Polestar shares expected to debut Friday on Nasdaq after SPAC deal approved
Shares of electric vehicle company Polestar are expected to debut on the Nasdaq on June 24, after shareholders of special purpose acquisition company Gores Guggenheim Inc. GGPI, +11.87% approved the p...
Crypto platform Voyager Digital shares plunge 60% after revealing $665 million exposure to embattled hedge fund; considers issuing default notice
Crypto platform Voyager Digital Ltd. VOYG, -52.50% shares plunged more than 60% Wednesday after the company said its subsidiary Voyager Digital LLC, may issue a notice of default to embattled crypto ...
Elon Musk joins the growing chorus fearing a U.S. recession. But there are stocks for that.
Look out above, the dip buyers are back in town. Stocks are soaring — for now — as Wall Street returns from a long holiday weekend, with Fed Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifying in front of Congress...
Is Pre-IPO Investing the Right Fit for Your Clients?
Many investors are familiar with the reward potential of buying shares in startups at the IPO (Initial Public Offering) stage, but there is another investment option that can put your investors one st...
Harvard expert warns of potential ‘harm’ to index investing, as Republican bill takes on ‘woke fund managers’
Senators and legal experts tussled Tuesday over the merits of a Republican bill that aims to reduce the voting power of the three index-investing giants — BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street. Republi...
Mexico Takes Aim at Private Companies, Threatening Decades of Economic Growth
MONTERREY, Mexico—For the past 20 years, a 1,100-megawatt power plant owned by Spain’s Iberdrola SA outside Mexico’s industrial capital has kept the lights on for scores of companies such as brewing g...
Ethereum close to its major upgrade, but why has it fallen more than bitcoin?
This article has been updated to correct the identification of Citadel Securities. Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m w...
Western Digital Said It Would Consider Breaking in Two. Its Stock Is Dropping.
Text size Activist investor Elliott Management says that Western Digital’s flash memory business alone could be worth as much as the whole company now. Dreamstime Western Digital stock, after an...
This big investor called inflation early and sees it above 7% at year’s end
Far from the bustle of Wall Street, inside his downtown Minneapolis office, Tim Magnusson got his first aching gut feeling about U.S. inflation in May of last year. That’s when U.S. government data sh...
Kohl’s Stock Rises on Takeover Bids. The Offers Show Scars of the Retail Rout.
Text size *** ONE-TIME USE *** The Kohl’s logo is displayed on the exterior of a Kohl’s store on Jan. 24, 2022 in San Rafael, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Kohl’s stock rose Fri...
Dan Quayle Bought Up Carvana’s Slumping Stock
Text size Former Vice President Dan Quayle. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Carvana stock has slumped this year, and former Vice President Dan Quayle, who serves the used-car retailer as a director, bought ...
Elon Musk called ESG a scam — did the Tesla chief do investors a favor?
Investing usually uses a combination of head, heart and gut even if it’s not supposed to. And perhaps no market theme stirs “all the feels” quite like ESG. This week, a major move to cut Tesla from a ...
Cathie Wood has a simple response to Tesla getting booted out of an S&P 500 ESG index: ‘Ridiculous’
Cathie Wood isn’t pleased about one of her most popular investments, Tesla Inc., being excluded from a prominent index that tracks eco- and socially friendly companies. “Ridiculous,” was essentially W...
JetBlue Launches Tender Offer for Spirit Airlines at $30 a Share
Text size Spirit Airlines planes are shown at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Spirit Airlines shares surged Monday after JetBlue Airways launch...
2 Stocks to Buy Amid Tech’s Wreckage
Text size Tens of billions of investors’ capital has been vaporized inside some top tech hedge funds. It could be the quickest collapse of dollar value in hedge fund history. Dreamstime Warren Buffett...
As Demand for Mental-Health Care Booms, Investors See Opportunities
Psychiatrists and psychologists once ran their own practices. Now the local therapist office could be controlled by a buyout king. Venture capitalists and private-equity firms are pouring billions of ...
‘Unhinged’ markets followed ‘unforced error’ by Fed’s Powell, says David Tepper
“‘Taking the optionality of 75 basis points off the table was an unforced error the Fed didn’t have to do. The Bank of England making a similar mistake the next day caused the market to become a bit u...
Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat Bought Stock in Blackstone
Text size Blackstone headquarters in New York. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg Blackstone stock has slumped so far in 2022, and director Ruth Porat just bought shares of the private-equity firm on the open ma...
This little-known Vanguard fund has been crushing it — yes, even in this market
What would Jack Bogle think? The legendary Vanguard founder, who died three years ago at 89, famously advised investors to avoid anything fancy in their retirement portfolios, 401(k) plans and IRAs. B...