January 9, 2023
“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…
January 3, 2023
“…Dubai is scrapping its 30% tax on alcohol sales for the rest of the year, the emirate’s municipality announced Monday, the latest move in a series of liberalizing policy changes over the last few years aimed at boosting tourism and… Continue Reading…
December 30, 2022
“…Reeling from a record $18 trillion wipeout, global stocks must surmount all these hurdles and more if they are to escape a second straight year in the red… With a drop of more than 20% in 2022, the MSCI All-Country… Continue Reading…
December 9, 2022
“Exxon Mobil unveiled a new corporate plan Thursday that includes increasing its stock buybacks and reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. The company also said that by 2027 “upstream production is expected to grow by 500,000 oil-equivalent barrels per day to 4.2 million… Continue Reading…
December 9, 2022
“Wholesale prices rose more than expected in November as food prices surged, dampening hopes that inflation could be headed lower, the Labor Department reported Friday. The producer price index, a measure of what companies get for their products in the… Continue Reading…
November 17, 2022
“Starbucks workers at more than 100 U.S. stores are on strike Thursday in their largest labor action since a campaign to unionize the company’s stores began late last year. The walkouts coincide with Starbucks’ annual Red Cup Day, when the… Continue Reading…
November 10, 2022
“Shares of Carvana jumped by as much as 32% Thursday morning – representing a small, yet notable, increase after a week of significant declines for the used car retailer. The stock hit $10 a share during early trading but has given back… Continue Reading…
November 8, 2022
“The investments of 125 billionaires produce 393 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions every year, according to a report by Oxfam. That’s the equivalent CO2 output to the whole of France and makes the average billionaire’s annual emissions a million times… Continue Reading…
November 3, 2022
“…The jackpot for Saturday night’s Powerball drawing has surged to $1.5 billion, the second billion-dollar jackpot of 2022, after no players claimed the top prize in Wednesday’s drawing. It’s the fifth time a U.S. lottery prize has reached 10 digits since 2016, when the… Continue Reading…
October 3, 2022
“…The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 681 points higher, or 2.3%. At one point it advanced as much as about 700 points. The S&P 500 rose 2.1%, after falling Friday to its lowest level since November 2020, and the Nasdaq… Continue Reading…
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