Business

“Lordstown Motors files for bankruptcy, sues Foxconn over $170 million funding deal”

“Struggling electric-truck maker Lordstown Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday and said that it would put itself up for sale amid an ongoing dispute over investments that had been promised by Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn. Shares were down over 60% in… Continue Reading…

Business, Stocks

“AMD stock pops on potential Amazon superchip deal, CEO bullishness”

“…Shares of the semiconductor company popped over 2% in pre-market trading on Wednesday — and were Yahoo Finance’s Top Trending Ticker — on a Reuters report that Amazon’s cloud arm is considering using AMD’s new AI chips… The report comes a day after AMD… Continue Reading…

Business

“Pfizer Sells $31 Billion of Bonds in Fourth-Largest Deal Ever”

“Pfizer Inc. sold $31 billion of debt in the fourth-largest US bond sale ever, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The pharmaceutical giant raked in over $85 billion in orders for the eight part investment-grade deal, which… Continue Reading…

Business, Precious Metals

“Gold Miners Newmont, Newcrest Extend Takeover Talks by a Week”

“Talks to secure the biggest ever gold-mining deal will be extended after Newmont Corp. and Newcrest Mining Ltd. failed to reach a binding agreement in the time originally allotted… Newmont, the world’s biggest gold miner, made a non-binding offer to… Continue Reading…

Banking

[Banking] “First Republic’s dramatic slide continues, stock falls 35% as bank looks for rescue deal”

“First Republic ’s stock sank again on Wednesday as investors kept an eye on a potential rescue deal for the troubled regional bank. Shares were down more than 35% in morning trading, extending losses of nearly 50% on Tuesday. The… Continue Reading…

Banking

“Frank founder criminally charged with fraud over $175 million JPMorgan deal”

“The Justice Department on Tuesday criminally charged Charlie Javice, founder of college financial planning platform Frank, with defrauding JPMorgan Chase out of $175 million.  Javice, 31, is accused of “falsely and dramatically” inflating the number of customers Frank actually had… Continue Reading…

Business

“Duck Creek Technologies surges more than 30% after reaching takeover deal with Vista”

“Insurance tech company Duck Creek Technologies has reached a takeover deal with Vista Equity Partners, sending its stock soaring on Monday morning. Terms of the pact call for Vista to pay $19 per share in cash, or about $2.6 billion. Shares of… Continue Reading…

Business, Stocks

“Microsoft buys near 4% stake in London Stock Exchange as part of 10-year cloud deal”

“…U.S. tech giant Microsoft on Monday announced a 10-year partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group and took a near 4% stake in the U.K. bourse operator. The partnership involves next-generation data and analytics, as well as cloud computing products, according to a statement… Continue Reading…

Business

“Google, Oracle, Amazon and Microsoft awarded Pentagon cloud deal of up to $9 billion combined”

“The Pentagon said Wednesday that Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle received a cloud-computing contract that can reach as high as $9 billion total through 2028. The outcome of the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, or JWCC, effort is in line with the U.S. Defense Department’s effort to rely on… Continue Reading…

Cryptocurrencies

“Coinbase shares soar nearly 20% in boost from meme traders, BlackRock crypto deal”

“Shares of Coinbase soared on Thursday after the crypto exchange announced a partnership with BlackRock that will allow its institutional clients to buy bitcoin. Coinbase shares were last up by 25.2%. Earlier in the day they jumped as much as about 40%…… Continue Reading…