June 14, 2021
“Shares of iTeos Therapeutics Inc. ITOS, 30.79% soared 58.5% in premarket trading on Monday after the company announced a deal with GlaxoSmithKline GSK, +0.39% to develop and commercialize an experimental cancer therapy. GSK will make a $625 million upfront payment to iTeos, with an additional $1.4… Continue Reading…
March 10, 2021
“Shares of General Electric Co. dropped Wednesday, after the industrial conglomerate confirmed a $30 billion deal with AerCap Holdings NV, while also surprisingly proposing a 1-for-8 reverse stock split… The stock GE, -6.40% swung to a loss of 2.0% in premarket trading, reversing… Continue Reading…
November 16, 2020
“Home Depot Inc. agreed to buy building products distributor HD Supply Holdings Inc., reuniting the home-improvement retailer with its former subsidiary more than a decade after they split apart. Home Depot will buy all outstanding shares for about $56 apiece,… Continue Reading…
November 9, 2020
“Shares of aspiring lithium minerPiedmont Lithium soared Monday after the company signed a deal with Tesla. The deal is a sign that Tesla is focused on the supply chain for electric-vehicle batteries. The move also shows what can happen when… Continue Reading…
September 15, 2020
“Gilead Sciences will acquire biotech company Immunomedics in a $21 billion deal that will expand Gilead’s availability of cancer treatments, the companies announced on Sunday. Shares of Immunomedics surged more than 100% in premarket trading Monday. The deal will provide Gilead access to the drug Trodelvy, a… Continue Reading…
September 14, 2020
“Verizon Communications said Monday it would buy wireless services provider Tracfone, a unit of Mexican telecom America Movil, in a $6.25 billion cash and stock deal. Several mergers in recent years have led to an increasingly concentrated wireless industry in the U.S.,… Continue Reading…
September 11, 2020
“U.S. mall owners Simon Property Group and Brookfield Property Partners are close to finalizing an $800 million deal to rescue the embattled department store chain J.C. Penney from bankruptcy, avoiding a total liquidation and saving about 70,000 jobs and 650 stores, Joshua Sussberg of the… Continue Reading…
September 7, 2020
“Samsung Electronics Co. won a 7.9 trillion won ($6.6 billion) order to provide fifth-generation wireless solutions to Verizon Communications Inc. in the U.S., a big win for the electronics giant’s networking gear business. The contract was finalized Friday and is… Continue Reading…
August 6, 2020
“Apartment contracts in Manhattan fell by more than half in July, while deals in many New York suburbs more than doubled, showing a continued flight from the city over the summer. The number of signed contracts for co-ops and condos… Continue Reading…
August 4, 2020
“American International Group Inc. posted a $7.9 billion second-quarter loss driven by the sale of a majority stake in a business of runoff policies, as well as costs from the pandemic and civil unrest. The sale of the Fortitude Group… Continue Reading…
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