Buy FirstEnergy Stock. It Should Thrive as America Goes Electric.

The U.S. is trying to wean itself off fossil fuels, and FirstEnergy an Ohio-based electric utility, should be among that campaign’s winners. The outlook for electric utilities is the best in decades, ...

Blackstone’s Big New Idea Leaves It Bruised

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Blackstone Stock Is a Good Investment, Even in a Downbeat Economy

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Blackstone profit falls, but distributable earnings beat estimates

Blackstone Inc. BX, +3.02% stock fell 1% in premarket trades on Thursday after the private equity firms said its fourth-quarter net income fell to $557.9 million, or 75 cents a share, from $1.4 billio...

The Lesson of Blackstone’s Retail Real Estate Fund: Liquidity Matters.

The recent move by Blackstone giant retail real estate fund to limit redemptions after outsize withdrawal requests is a wake-up call for investors in a once-hot sector that may now face more regulator...

Google Moves to Cut Costs. The Tech Gravy Train Has Hit the Brakes.

After years of rapid growth amid bumper profits, the tech sector is now firmly in cost-cutting mode. Alphabet Google was the latest company to highlight this Thursday, confirming plans to merge the te...

Blackstone Limited Withdrawals From Its Huge Retail REIT, Stock Slumps

Blackstone is limiting withdrawals from its huge retail real estate investment trust after a sharp rise in redemption requests from investors. In a letter posted on the Blackstone Real Estate Income T...

Blackstone selling MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay hotel stake to Vici: WSJ

Blackstone Inc. BX, -6.92% is selling a 49.9% stake in MGM Grand Las Vegas and the Mandalay Bay in a $5.5 billion deal with Vici Properties Inc. VICI, -0.28%, the majority owner of the two hotels, the...

BDCs Sport Lofty Yields, But the Risks Are Growing

Business development companies lend to midsize private companies at high interest rates. They have proven popular with retail investors in recent years by offering dividend yields of around 10%. Total...

Blackstone’s Breit Retail Real Estate Fund Suffers First Significant Outflows

Blackstone ‘s big retail real estate fund experienced sizable net redemptions for the first time, in a potentially worrisome development for what has become one of the firm’s most important products a...

Blackstone shares fall on Credit Suisse downgrade to underperform

Blackstone Inc. BX, -2.28% shares fell 2.5% on Tuesday after Credit Suisse downgraded the alternative investment manager to underperform from neutral and cut its price target to $67.50 a share from $8...

Will Home Prices Crash? Don’t Count on It. Here’s Why.

The housing market is cooling, but the downturn may be overhyped. That is both a blessing and a curse. Data released this past week showed that U.S. home prices fell in August at the steepest month-ov...

Carlyle Group Loses Another Executive. What Wall Street Is Saying.

Text size Carlyle Group stock rose alongside broader markets Wednesday, despite leadership changes. Keith Bedford/REUTERS/Alamy Management changes at Carlyle Group continued Wednesday, as the company ...

Blackstone’s Giant Real Estate Fund Faces a Test

Blackstone Group is the world’s largest manager of alternative assets such as private equity and real estate. It is also a leader in one of the industry’s biggest initiatives—attracting retail investo...

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...

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 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. ...

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...

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...

You bought. They sold. Meet some of the insiders who unloaded $35 billion in stock amid the tech IPO bonanza before it tanked.

A year ago, Heather Hasson and Catherine “Trina” Spear traveled from Santa Monica, Calif., to New York to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. The co–chief executives of FIGS, an onli...

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 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 Profits Nearly Double as Total Assets Set Quarterly Record

Text size Signage outside the Blackstone headquarters in New York. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg Shares of Blackstone rose Thursday after total assets at the world’s biggest alternative asset manager rose t...