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A group of investors including Paul Singer's hedge fund, has paid $2.5 billion to acquire both preferred and common stock in electric utility holding company FirstEnergy.
Jack in the Box shares made a handy gain early on Tuesday after the fast-food chain announced that it would be unloading one of its core businesses.
Buffalo Wild Wings shares saw a handy gain on Tuesday after it was announced that the owner of Arby's and Cinnabon would be acquiring the chain.
Barracuda Networks shares made an impressive gain to kick off the week, after it was announced that the firm would be taken private.
According to several reports, Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) has approached Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. (NYSE: FOXA) about buying many of its assets. Comcast owns NBCUniversal, and the deal would...
24/7 Wall St. has tracked the major and minor portfolio changes from Warren Buffett’s stock holdings for about two decades now. Despite some top positions never changing, many investment holdings...
Maybe there is never a bad time to be a millionaire. And there are now more millionaires than ever, according to a new report.
Here are 10 areas of tax reform that may change handily for the investment community in the next year, depending on how things ultimately go.
Blackstone plans to invest in infrastructure in multiple ways. It is expected to begin making infrastructure investments in 2018.
The new Carlyle Group co-CEOs will have base salaries of only $275,000 each when they begin their jobs early next year. But each of the two stands to make much more. 
Google posted better-than-expected earnings, CVS Health is rumored to have made a bid for Aetna, Amazon may move into the wholesale drug business, and more important headlines.
Tesla increases its effort to help hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, a new dangerous ransomware is detected, Twitter to label some ads as political messages, and other important headlines.
Netflix will spend as much as $8 billion on content next year, Airbus took a stake in Bombardier's troubled jet business, Facebook bought a company that targets teenagers, and other important...
Nordstrom family members have told the board of directors that they intend to continue efforts to explore the possibility of taking the company private after the holiday season.
This has had a Buy rating on Berkshire Hathaway since March of 2016, but now it has raised its price target to near the "upside scenario" that the company had previously set.