New Buyback Tax Will Force Companies to Think Twice on How to Use Cash

In the scrap over how to fund President Joe Biden’s spending plans, the Democrats’ focus has shifted from taxing private funds to public at the last minute. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) backs dropp...

Blackstone is preparing a record $50 billion vehicle to scoop up real estate bargains during the downturn — here’s how to lock in higher yields than the big money

Blackstone is preparing a record $50 billion vehicle to scoop up real estate bargains during the downturn — here’s how to lock in higher yields than the big money Residential real estate is argu...

Intel Posts Sharp Drop in Sales, Issues Muted Outlook

Updated July 28, 2022 6:36 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Chip maker Intel reported a surprise quarterly loss and cut its full-year outlook, reflecting a slump in personal-computer purchases and ...

Democrats Ready Carried-Interest Tax Hike After 15-Year Lobbying Campaign

Senate Democrats are poised to raise taxes on a key source of private-equity managers’ income, capping a 15-year quest to close what many lawmakers see as an egregious gap in the tax code. The tax inc...

Senate Reconciliation Bill Would Close Carried Interest Loophole. What It Means for Private Equity.

Text size Sen. Joe Manchin wants to eliminate a provision giving favorable tax treatment to the private-equity industry. Alex Wong/Getty Images In a surprise, Senate Democrats reached a deal on a bill...

Blackstone shares dip after posting loss but its distributable earnings beat estimates

Blackstone Inc. BX, -3.65% shares fell 3.9% in premarket trades on Thursday after the private equity firm said it swung to a second-quarter loss of $29.4 million, or 4 cents a share, from net income o...

Blackstone Sees Fed Funds Rate Near 5% on Longer Hiking Cycle

(Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve will need to go on a longer tightening cycle and raise interest rates well into next year to control inflation that Blackstone Group sees as “more deeply entren...

Blackstone Earnings Are Coming. What to Expect.

Text size Blackstone is expected to produce Q2 results of $1.43 a share in distributable earnings. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg Blackstone will kick off earnings season for alternative asset managers when ...

What to Buy Right Now: 42 Picks From Barron’s Roundtable Pros

To everything there is a season: A time to hide in a bunker with a crash helmet on as stock and bond prices plummet, and a time to wade cautiously into the market in search of newly created bargains. ...

Fund giants like Blackstone and Opendoor keep gobbling up homes even as mortgage rates rise — here’s how small investors can lock in higher yields than the big money

Fund giants like Blackstone and Opendoor keep gobbling up homes even as mortgage rates rise — here’s how small investors can lock in higher yields than the big money For most investors, real est...

Soho China CFO Probed For Insider Trading; Shares Fall 2.8% In Hong Kong

Soho China CEO Zhang Xin, second from right, chats with guests at her newly opened Galaxy Soho … [+] building in Beijing in 2012. Galaxy Soho, a new office, retail and entertainment building, wa...

KKR Stock Looks Cheap. Why It Might Be Time to Buy.

Text size KKR has loads of capital and a cheap stock. It could be a recipe for gains. Dreamstime It has been a brutal first half of the year for alternative-asset managers. Shares of KKR , Apollo , Bl...

Blackstone dealt legal setback after $5bn low-income housing deal

Blackstone has suffered a legal setback in a dispute with housing non-profits that are trying to seize some of the apartment buildings it bought for $5.1bn from AIG last year. The world’s biggest priv...

U.S.-China Business Ties Are “Better Than The Headlines”

Travel restrictions related to Covid underscore the importance of a strong local management team in … [+] China, says National Committee on U.S.-China Relations President Steve Orlins. Bill Russ...

Markets Won’t Sink Forever. Asset Manager Stocks Are a Cheap Play on a Rebound.

Asset-management stocks have been hit hard this year in the market selloff, with some down 35% to 45%, almost double the decline in the S&P 500 index. No industry is more directly tied to stock an...

Justin Timberlake sells song catalog for $100M to fund backed by Blackstone

Recording artist Justin Timberlake performs onstage during the Pepsi Super Bowl LII Halftime Show at U.S. Bank Stadium on February 4, 2018 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Christopher Polk | Getty Images Bu...

Home affordability at 2007 bubble level but crash unlikely: Blackstone

A major Wall Street firm is drawing a striking parallel to the housing bubble. Blackstone’s Joe Zidle calls homes almost as unaffordable as the 2007 peak. Yet, he believes a crash is unlikely du...

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...

PS Business Parks to Be Bought for $7.6 Billion By Blackstone. The Stock Soars.

Text size Blackstone bought PS Business Parks shortly after acquiring American Campus Communities , a student-housing company. Dreamstime PS Business Parks stock soared on Monday after the commercial ...

Blackstone takes aim at publicly listed real estate vehicles

Blackstone has opened a new front in the private capital industry’s quest to supplant the stock market, taking aim at publicly listed real estate investment trusts that have fallen out of favour with ...

Blackstone Earnings Fall to $1.22 Billion

Blackstone Inc.’s BX -6.45% first-quarter earnings fell as the value of the private-equity giant’s investments climbed at a slower pace. The New York firm reported net income of $1.22 billion, or $1.6...

Blackstone’s Earnings Beat Estimates. Assets Under Management Are Rising.

Text size Blackstone Group had net inflows of $50 billion in the quarter. Munshi Ahmed/Bloomberg Blackstone, the private-equity giant, reported higher distributable earnings than expected and came clo...

Blackstone COO on Q1 results: extraordinary quarter against tough backdrop

Shares of Blackstone Inc (NYSE: BX) opened roughly 5.0% up on Thursday after the alternative investment management company reported better-than-expected results for its fiscal first quarter. What Blac...

American Airlines, Blackstone, AT&T and more

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: American Airlines (AAL) – American soared 10.5% in premarket trading after reporting a smaller-than-expected loss and predicting profitability...

Blackstone Products Announces Preliminary Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2021 Results

Blackstone Products,a design-driven company that produces griddle cooking appliances and accessories, today announced preliminary financial results for its full fiscal year ended Dec. 31, 2021. Blacks...

Blackstone Plans Fund for People With Millions Not Billions

(Bloomberg) — Dentists, surgeons and other suburban millionaires don’t loom large on the client rosters of buyout funds run by the most elite investment firms. Most Read from Bloomberg But insid...

Blackstone Makes £140 Million Strategic Investment in Currencies Direct

To facilitate the acceleration of its expansion, Currencies Direct, a global provider of digital foreign exchange (FX) and global payment services to private clients and SMEs, today announced a strate...

As Profits Rise, Private Equity Billionaires Have Huge Paydays

Including dividends, Blackstone chairman and CEO Stephen Schwarzman took home $1.1 billion in 2021. Roy Rochlin/Getty Images The largest paychecks on Wall Street aren’t being collected in the corner o...

Splunk, Blackstone, Aerojet Rocketdyne and more

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Splunk (SPLK) – Cisco Systems (CSCO) made a more than $20 billion takeover bid for the cloud software company, according to people familiar ...

Billionaire James Packer’s Crown Resorts Accepts Blackstone’s $6.3 Billion Takeover Offer

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – OCTOBER 26: A general view of Crown Towers on October 26, 2017 in Melbourne, … [+] Australia. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images) Getty Images Crown Resorts—contro...

TikTok Doubles Share Of Ad Spend, AdTech Consolidation Hits 29%

The number of top ad networks dropped by about a third in the last year as the rich got richer in mobile advertising. TikTok, in particular, grew very fast, doubling the share of ad spend it captured....

McDonald’s, Blackstone, Netflix and others

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Comcast (CMCSA) – The NBCUniversal and CNBC parent earned an adjusted 77 cents per share for the fourth quarter, 4 cents above estimates, with...