Text size JOSH EDELSON / AFP via Getty Images Centrica’s shares soared more than 17% after it agreed to sell Direct Energy, its North American energy business, to NRG Energy for $ 3.6 billion in cash. Houston-based Direct Energy provides electricity, natural gas, and home services to consumers and businesses …
Read More »Nikola starts working at the Arizona factory
Text size Courtesy of Nikola. Nikola has begun construction of a manufacturing plant in Arizona, an important step in commissioning as it seeks to disrupt the heavy truck market. Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola, pursues that goal with two main products: battery-powered or hydrogen fuel cell trucks, . Both will …
Read More »Bill Ackman’s blank check company has just started operating. What you need to know.
Text size William Ackman Bryan Bedder / Getty Images for The New York Times A special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, sponsored by Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management, made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday in the largest initial public offering of blank checks. The offering …
Read More »Billionaire Bill Ackman has a $ 4 billion “blank check” to buy a company, but hasn’t said which one
Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, the largest “blank check” company, went public on Wednesday, with more than $ 4 billion in his kitty to acquire a still-undetermined company, and has two years to choose a . Pershing Square Tontine Holdings Ltd. PSTH.UT, + 7.97% is a special purpose acquisition …
Read More »Amazon shares rise when Goldman sets new high street price target
Text size Ina Fassbender / AFP via Getty Images Shares of Amazon.com were trading strongly higher on Monday in a pair of bullish analyst notes as Wall Street raises expectations ahead of the company’s earnings report to be released on July 30. The company is an obvious beneficiary of both …
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