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Text size GM has been showing off its Cadillac Lyriq SUV electric vehicle, priced like Tesla’s Model Y. Courtesy of Cadillac Inflation, rising interest rates, and recession fears have all conspired against General Motors stock. Its shares are still worth owning. Barron’srecommended buying General Motors (ticker: GM) stock in early May. The timing wasn’t great. … Read more
Despite the sunny weather, the outlook was less rosy this week in Berlin, where the private equity industry met for its annual industry summit. In a week when the S&P 500 stock index fell into a bear market and both the US Federal Reserve and Bank of England raised interest rates, buyout bosses met in … Read more
Sir Hector Sants was chief executive of the Financial Services Authority and head of compliance at Barclays. He is currently chair of the Money and Pensions Service. Over the past decade, the financial services community has made huge strides in bringing conversations about mental wellbeing to the forefront. But there is still a way to go in … Read more
Zendesk Inc. is close to a deal with a group of buyout firms, according to people familiar with the matter, resurrecting a failed attempt to sell itself in what would be one of the biggest private-equity takeovers of the year. A deal with a group that includes Hellman & Friedman LLC and Permira could be … Read more
Billionaire Ken Griffin is relocating his big hedge-fund firm Citadel from Chicago to Miami, the third major employer to announce the move of a corporate headquarters from Illinois in the past two months. In a letter to employees Thursday, Mr. Griffin said he had personally moved to Florida—a state that doesn’t collect personal income tax—and … Read more
Altria Group disastrous investment in Juul Labs is taking another turn for the worse. On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Food and Drug Administration is preparing to remove Juul e-cigarettes from the U.S. market. Banning Juul in the U.S., where it was on track to make 94% of its revenue this year, … Read more
Text size People walk along Wall Street, near the New York Stock Exchange in New York. (Photo by ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images) Stock futures fell Wednesday, eating into a good chunk of the previous session’s gains, as investors went back to worrying that the Federal Reserve’s aggressive plans to tighten monetary policy could lead … Read more
Text size Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Stock futures traded sharply higher Tuesday as investors returned from a three-day weekend feeling a bit more optimistic after last week’s steep selloff. Contracts linked to the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 450 points, or 1.5%, to 30,319, S&P … Read more
TOKYO (AP) — Asian markets were mostly lower in cautious trading Monday ahead of a federal holiday in the U.S. Worries over inflation and risks of a global recession from central bank efforts to bring it under control appeared to outweigh Wall Street’s positive close on Friday. The price of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency … Read more
Is bitcoin BTCUSD, +4.88% facing a breaking point? That’s what some investors, acolytes and otherwise, might be contemplating, as the cryptocurrency’s descent accelerates over the weekend. The world’s No. 1 digital asset was last trading at $18,654, down more than 70% from its peak of around $65,000, with the broader crypto market feeling to some … Read more