#Bill Ackman tells investors to follow him on Twitter

#Bill Ackman tells investors to follow him on Twitter

“#Bill Ackman tells investors to follow him on Twitter” Billionaire Bill Ackman appears to be taking a page from Elon Musk with plans to start announcing market-moving news on Twitter. The billionaire investor’s blank check company, Pershing Square Tontine Holdings, issued a press release on Friday highlighting Ackman’s Twitter feed and saying it may be…

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#GameStop stock explodes for second day, Reddit cheers

#GameStop stock explodes for second day, Reddit cheers

“#GameStop stock explodes for second day, Reddit cheers” GameStop’s stock price exploded again Thursday as Reddit’s army of retail traders launched a second salvo in its rebellion against Wall Street. Shares in the video-game retailer surged 101 percent to an intraday peak $184.64 after more than doubling in a wild Wednesday session, adding as much as $9.7 billion…

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#A new breed of firms vie for stake in NBA teams

#A new breed of firms vie for stake in NBA teams

“#A new breed of firms vie for stake in NBA teams” Last month, the owners of the Golden State Warriors quietly approached the National Basketball Association for approval to sell a minority stake in the team — not to another business mogul, but to a publicly traded blank-check company that had partnered with a private-equity…

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#Fed blames ‘operational error’ that crashed Fedwire

#Fed blames ‘operational error’ that crashed Fedwire

“#Fed blames ‘operational error’ that crashed Fedwire” The Federal Reserve said it is restoring services that were thrown offline Wednesday by an “operational error” that spurred outages in a dozen areas, including check clearing and Fedwire, which handles trillions of dollars in transactions daily for the world’s biggest banks. “A Federal Reserve operational error resulted…

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#Israel Englander’s hedge fund earned .8 billion last year

#Israel Englander’s hedge fund earned $3.8 billion last year

“#Israel Englander’s hedge fund earned $3.8 billion last year” Millennium Management’s Israel Englander earned $3.8 billion last year, landing him the biggest payday of any hedge fund manager in 2020, according to Institutional Investor. Englander more than doubled his $1.5 billion payday in 2019 and made $2 billion more than the previous year’s rich-list leaders…

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#Harsh light on in-the-dark CEO’s failure

#Harsh light on in-the-dark CEO’s failure

“#Harsh light on in-the-dark CEO’s failure” In March of 2017, Jeff Immelt was in his 16th year as CEO of General Electric and — at least in his head — he was remaking the iconic conglomerate into the very model of the modern industrial company. He was expanding the old — GE’s historic footprint in…

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#Warren Buffett reveals big stakes in Verizon, Chevron

#Warren Buffett reveals big stakes in Verizon, Chevron

“#Warren Buffett reveals big stakes in Verizon, Chevron” Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway on Tuesday announced two major new investments, revealing an $8.6 billion stake in the phone company Verizon Communications and a $4.1 billion stake in oil company Chevron. The investments were disclosed in a regulatory filing detailing Berkshire’s U.S.-listed stock holdings as of Dec….

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