Stock index futures were aiming for a higher start on Tuesday when investors began to digest the second quarter results of a trio of big banks, kicking off the corporate earnings reporting season. What are the main indexes doing? Futures in the Dow Jones Industrial Average YM00, + 0.61% They …
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The logos of the mobile applications Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, Google and Messenger are displayed on a tablet. denis charlet / Agence France-Presse / Getty Images Fund managers say the technology trade has never been so crowded. But that has not prevented them from betting too much on the sector. …
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Shares fell in Asia on Tuesday due to skepticism about the recent upward momentum in world markets due to rising confirmed cases of coronavirus and straining strains between the United States and China. The White House decision to reject almost all Chinese maritime claims in the South China Sea increased …
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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 …
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: …
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