...share price on 23 June. The company’s stock value jumped 27 percent the next day. Zendesk’s board of directors unanimously approved the takeover. The partners making the buy include Hellman...
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GET BIGGER

...share price on 23 June. The company’s stock value jumped 27 percent the next day. Zendesk’s board of directors unanimously approved the takeover. The partners making the buy include Hellman...
PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS OFFER SKY-HIGH PRICES FOR BUYOUTS Private equity firms are bidding for acquisitions with offers that are the highest this century, in some cases offering 70 percent...
Goodyear Tire & Rubber, the largest U.S. tire maker, will pay $2.8 billion in cash and stock to buy Cooper Tire & Rubber, the second largest. The purchase would grow Goodyear to include 50 factories, a workforce of 72,000, and annual revenue of about $17.5 billion, according to the...
From January through July, U.S. residential rental rates shot up 13 percent, more than double the rate of inflation and the greatest jump in five years, according to Yardi Matrix, which collects and analyzes real estate data. Rents have been pushed up, in no small measure, because investors ranging...
In an attempt to capitalize on the worldwide shortage of computer chips, Intel is mulling the purchase of competitor GlobalFoundries, a deal that would rank as Intel’s biggest buy yet and value GlobalFoundries at as much as $30 billion. GlobalFoundries is based in the U.S. but owned by the...
At the end of 2021, there were 411,000 fewer homes on the market that were affordable for households making $75,000 to $100,000 a year, compared to the end of 2019, according to a study released 7 February by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Households in that income category...
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The idea is as simple as it is profound: A city earmarks a portion of its planned capital budget to be spent by residents. Anyone can suggest an idea for the money’s use, which is then vetted for practicality and cost. Surviving proposals are subject to a public vote;...
Texas and a dozen other states joined a lawsuit claiming that Google, the search engine giant, misled online publishers about its pricing format and used the extra money to expand its digital monopoly by manipulating future auctions, according to a report. “Our amended complaint details how Google manipulates the...
By Nomi Prins Contributing Editor On 16 December 2015, after seven years of near-zero short-term interest rates, the Federal Reserve bumped up the federal funds rate target range a smidge, from 0-0.25 percent to 0.25 percent-0.5 percent. Chairwoman Janet Yellen affirmed it was the start of a process “likely...
The Dow dipped lower on Friday and was down 250 points yesterday, posting its biggest decline in nearly two months on weak manufacturing activity, and, of course, on “trade uncertainty.” Today, as we go to press, it’s down 350 points on news that President Trump suggested he may want...
Private equity firm Apollo Global Management has bought Yahoo and Verizon Communications’ other online media properties for $5 billion. Verizon shed the assets to concentrate on its central business of telecommunications and continue the expansion of its 5G network, which served 230 million people in 2,700 cities in December,...
Last week was a trip back to the good old days of the Panic of ‘08. The New York Federal Reserve Bank injected $203 billion into the U.S. financial system to alleviate funding pressures caused by a sudden scarcity of cash in the “repo market.” It was the largest...
Car ownership among the under-30 demographic is down and fewer 18-year-olds are obtaining driver licenses - trends that have framed the millennial generation as being uninterested in driving. Obvious factors - the traditionally high cost of fuel, soaring insurance costs, high student-loan debt and poor job prospects for the...
...In August, prices of online goods and services swelled 3.1 percent, year on year, and gained 0.1 percent on July’s prices, Adobe found. In contrast, online prices fell 3.9 percent...
WHAT DEFINES WEB3? The current “Web2.0” internet is dominated by a few large corporations that control largely separate or “siloed” ecosystems. Online commerce? That would be Amazon. Web advertising...
By Doug Grunther, CONTRIBUTING WRITER and Derek Osenenko, EXECUTIVE EDITOR While America’s fast-food industry may be hitting an earnings ceiling, it maintains its enormous grip on American eating habits and, despite the fast-emerging healthy-fast-food trend, continues to feed devastating health problems affecting growing segments of American society. Indeed, healthy...
...combine their frequent flier programs. Although the transportation department approved the project, the justice department called it a “de facto merger” that would decrease competition, boost ticket prices, and give...
Stock prices slid on Tuesday, 28 September, bumped through Wednesday, and fell again on Thursday, September’s last day, while the best bond yields in months also lured investors away from tech stocks. Alphabet, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, all of which have outperformed the broader market this year, each dropped...
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