July 11, 2022
“Twitter shares sank in premarket trade Monday after Elon Musk said he is trying to terminate his $44 billion takeover of the company. Shares of the social media platform fell more than 6%, wiping nearly $1.8 billion off the company’s market value. Tesla, where Musk is… Continue Reading…
May 26, 2022
“Broadcom will buy VMware in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $61 billion, based on the closing price of Broadcom common stock on May 25, 2022, the companies announced Thursday. The deal would be one of the largest technology acquisitions of all time, behind Microsoft’s pending $69… Continue Reading…
May 17, 2022
“Elon Musk said his $44 billion purchase of Twitter will not move ahead until he has more clarity on how many accounts are fake. Twitter estimated in a filing earlier this month that fewer than 5% of its monetizable daily active users… Continue Reading…
February 7, 2022
“Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines, the two largest discount carriers in the U.S., have agreed to merge in a deal valued at $6.6 billion, creating what would become the fifth-largest airline in the country. The merger gives Denver-based Frontier Airlines a 51.5%… Continue Reading…
January 19, 2022
“On Tuesday, Microsoft said it’s buying video game publisher Activision Blizzard for almost $69 billion, a price that would narrowly eclipse the richest U.S. tech deal in history. In 2016, Dell purchased EMC for $67 billion. The JDS-SDL deal comes next, followed by IBM’s $34 billion… Continue Reading…
October 21, 2021
“Sara Blakely founded Spanx Inc. in 2000 with $5,000 of her personal savings earned from selling fax machines door-to-door. She just struck a deal with Blackstone Inc. that values the company at $1.2 billion…” https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackstone-buy-majority-stake-spanx-155152406.html This just goes to show… Continue Reading…
October 7, 2021
“…News of a possible debt-ceiling accord stoked the biggest positive turnaround in the equity market in more than seven months on Wednesday, and stocks extended gains Thursday. In the bond market, traders bid back up the prices of Treasuries set… Continue Reading…
September 21, 2021
“Royal Dutch Shell Plc shareholders will get an unexpected $7 billion payout after the company promised to give them three quarters of the proceeds from the sale of Permian shale oil fields to ConocoPhillips… The cash pledge comes less than… Continue Reading…
July 26, 2021
“Used car prices averaged $25,410 during the second quarter of 2021, up from $20,942 a year ago, according to automotive resource site Edmunds. That’s a 21% jump. Because of the global microchip shortage, manufacturers are unable to produce enough new cars to… Continue Reading…
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