The “art” of doing business has become quite a difficult sale this year. Rainmakers in the global M&A business saw the count of completed deals drop to $ 1.11 trillion in the first six months of the year, about half the volume seen during the same period in 2019, for …
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Online food prices have risen 4.2% in the past six months according to the latest data from Adobe Inc. as grocery e-commerce accelerated amid the COVID-19 pandemic and producers of Foods struggled to keep up with continued high demand. “We have always thought that the online market is a ‘value …
Read More »Tesla’s shares soared. Then $ 55 billion was stripped of its value.
Text size Monday’s reversal was the biggest change from positive to negative for Tesla since June 30, 2010, one day after it went public. Photography by Andreas Dress After a wild Monday, Tesla shares lost about $ 55 billion from their intraday peak and closed 3.1%, after rising more than …
Read More »Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square wants to raise $ 4 billion for his SPAC
Text size Bill ackman Bryan Bedder / Getty Images for the New York Times Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management made a splash in late June, when he asked to raise a $ 3 billion blank check company with some unconventional terms. Voluntary initial public offering investors are clearly plentiful: …
Read More »Big Tech’s latest reckoning is coming as it continues to rack up record valuations
Tech’s top four CEOs should be nervous as they approach a virtual hearing on July 27 before the House of Representatives’ Antitrust Subcommittee on the Judiciary. AAPL from Apple Inc. -0.46% Tim Cook, AMZN of Amazon.com Inc., -3.00% Jeff Bezos, Facebook Inc. FB, -2.47% Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL, …
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