Laird Superfood’s New CEO Lays Out Aggressive Growth Plans With Heightened Focus On Gross Margin And Strategic M&A To Regain Investor Confidence

Laird Superfood recently launched Bright Cups, the company’s first line of BPI-certified pods filled … [+] with its flagship functional mushroom coffee. Laird Superfood Laird Superfood, which wa...

Big Pharma Has Enough Cash to Buy All of Biotech. Why M&A Isn’t Happening.

Text size Late last year, Barron’s predicted a wave of deals, citing biotech companies’ cash holdings. Above, the plates used to print one-dollar bills. Alex Wong/Getty Images With biotech...

Saxo Markets Names Sean Ma as Head of Saxo Institutional in Hong Kong

To expand its reach, Saxo Capital Markets HK Limited (Saxo Markets) today announced that it has appointed Sean Ma as Head of Saxo Institutional. Based in Hong Kong, Ma will be responsible for the comp...

China Investment In Europe Gained In 2021 From Low Level; VC Flows Doubled

Chinese billionaire Zhang Lei’s Hillhouse Capital led the purchase of Philips’ home appliance … [+] business last year. Photographer: Justin Chin/Bloomberg © 2018 Bloomberg Finance L...

Twitter Stock Falls on Fears Musk Might Abandon Deal

Text size One merger arbitrager says the Twitter deal’s conditions are “seller-friendly.” Scott Olson/Getty Images Twitter shares are falling Wednesday as investors worry that Elon M...

Tesla Stock Dropped After Elon Musk’s Deal for Twitter. Blame Margin Borrowing.

Text size Elon Musk is taking Twitter private. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Twitter shares are rising and Tesla stock is down in response to news that the Twitter board of directors accepted Tesla CEO...

Activision Blizzard’s Earnings Miss. Investors Care More About Microsoft Merger.

Text size Microsoft announced plans to purchase Activision Blizzard for about $69 billion, or $95 a share, in January. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Activision Blizzard stock was dipping on Monday after...

AT&T Shareholders Who Sell Warner Bros. Stock Face Tax Complexities

Text size AT&T shares have risen 10% since April 8. Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images Since the AT&T spinoff of its 71% stake in Warner Bros. Discovery to its shareholders on April 8, ma...

Berkshire Hathaway Is Likely to Buy Alleghany. No Rival Bids Emerged.

Text size Alleghany’s noninsurance operations include a toy business and a steel fabricator. Dreamstime It looks like Berkshire Hathaway will succeed in buying the insurer Alleghany for $11.6 bi...

Southwest Gas Stock Soars. It’s Exploring a Sale and Other Alternatives.

Text size Flared natural gas being burned off. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Southwest Gas said Monday its board authorizedthe review of a full range of strategic alternatives, includinga sale of the com...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Will Have No Trouble Financing Twitter

Text size Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk at the “Cyber Rodeo” opening party, April 7, 2022, in Austin, Texas. AFP via Getty Images Rich people rarely have to pay cash. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ...

What Is a Poison Pill? Twitter Adopts Defensive Move to Fend Off Elon Musk.

Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion. He currently has a 9.2% stake in Twitter. Photo by Christian Marquardt – Pool/Getty Images Text size Twitter adopted a so-called poison pill Fri...

Will Twitter Accept Elon Musk’s $43 Billion Offer? His Options If Twitter Says No.

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Patrick Pleul/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk, the billionaire businessman, has some options if Twitter rejects his nearly $43 billion bid. Twitter (ticker: TWTR) co...

Musk’s Cannabis-Themed Twitter Offer Looks High but Not Wacky

Text size Elon Musk is offering $54.20 a share for all of Twitter. Al Drago/Bloomberg Elon Musk is offering $54.20 a share for all of Twitter —and you don’t need to work up a discounted cash flow anal...

Sierra Oncology Stock Soars After $1.9 Billion Takeover by GSK

Text size The deal comes ahead of GlaxoSmithKline’s planned spinoff of its consumer health division in July. AFP via Getty Images GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to buy U.S. rare cancer therapy compa...

Antares Pharma Stock Soars After $960 Million Halozyme Buyout

Text size Nasdaq-listed Antares Pharma is being bought by Halozyme Therapeutics in a deal valued at $960 million. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Shares of Antares Pharma surged more than 47% in premarket tra...

Sierra Oncology Stock Soars After $1.9 Billion Takeover by GlaxoSmithKline

Text size AFP via Getty Images GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to buy U.S. rare cancer therapy company Sierra Oncology for $1.9 billion in cash, as it looks to boost its portfolio of new specialty medicine...

Kohl’s Stock Climbs on Reports of a $9 Billion Offer From Franchise Group

Text size Kohl’s stock has risen this year on hopes for a buyout. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Kohl’s stock climbed on a report Tuesday that Franchise Group is the latest company to throw its ha...

Warren Buffett Showed Tough Negotiation Skills in Alleghany Deal

Text size Warren Buffett Drew Angerer/Getty Images Warren Buffett is known as a tough negotiator, and that was apparent in Berkshire Hathaway ’s negotiations to buy the insurer Alleghany when the Berk...

AT&T Stock Rises After Completion of WarnerMedia Spinoff

Text size AT&T has completed the spinoff of WarnerMedia. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T wrapped up its WarnerMedia spinoff late last week, and the stock was rising on Monday. The stock jump...

Stock Surge Validates AT&T’s Move to Spin, not Split, Stake in Warner Bros.

Text size AT&T’s spinoff appears to be popular with its legions of retail investors. Chris DELMAS / AFP / Getty Images The 7% gain in AT&T shares Monday offers some validation for the co...

Pfizer’s New CFO David Denton Negotiated One of the Biggest Healthcare Deals in History

Pfizer on Monday named a new chief financial officer with a resume that hints at the company’s plans to spend big with its Covid-19 vaccine windfall. David Denton is taking up the CFO role at Pfizer (...

Make A List, But Don’t Go Shopping Yet

The big fish eats the small fish. getty Mergers and acquisition volume in 2021 was the highest on record. But acquisitions may not be the smart thing for business leaders in today’s economic environme...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Takes 11% Stake in HP

Text size Warren Buffett Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc. Berkshire Hathaway has accumulated an 11.4% stake worth $4.2 billion in HP Inc. , the maker of personal computers and printers, ...

Bill Ackman Is Chilling After Netflix

Text size Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Shareholder activism has come roaring back in 2022 but it’s missing one of its most prominent voices. There were...

Here’s What a 3M Breakup Could Look Like

Text size PFAS problems, product liability litigation tied to earplugs, and slowing growth have caused 3M stock to languish. Dreamstime What would 3M look like if it went down a General Electric -like...

High Demand, Low Supply, High Prices Make It A Bull Market For Car Dealerships

A Chevrolet dealership in Colorado Photo: Chevrolet Car dealerships are buying each other up at a record pace. That’s a sure sign, dealers are confident in the long-term health of the auto retail indu...

Warren Buffett Has Amassed Over 90% of His Wealth Since He Turned 65

Text size Warren Buffett Drew Angerer/Getty Images Who says you can’t get really rich when you’re old? One of the Warren Buffett’s remarkable achievements is that he has generated over 90% of his weal...

Russia Built Parallel Payments System That Escaped Western Sanctions

Western sanctions have disrupted nearly every part of Russia’s financial system, but there is one big exception. The domestic-payments system continued to work smoothly after Visa Inc. and Mastercard ...

Why The Experts Are Banking On Financial Institution M&A

Interest Rates and other conditions are setting the stage for more bank acquisitions this year. By Calvin Trice and Jeff Sheban Business and technology concept. getty Bank deals should return to a ste...

Cannabis Mega-Merger: Cresco Is Buying Columbia Care

Text size Marijuana products are displayed at the Cresco Labs Sunnyside Lakeview dispensary in Chicago. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Cresco Labs reached an agreement to acquire Columbia Care, a fellow Canad...

Warren Buffett Does Deal Making Differently. Alleghany Acquisition Shows How.

Text size Warren Buffett Drew Angerer/Getty Images When it comes to acquisitions, Warren Buffett does things differently, and Berkshire Hathaway ’s deal on Monday for Alleghany illustrates his unique ...