(Reuters) – The S&P Dow Jones Indices said on Friday that private equity firm KKR & Co, cybersecurity company CrowdStrike and internet services provider GoDaddy will join the benchmark S&P 500 before markets open on June 24. Shares of CrowdStrike rose 6% in extended trading. KKR and GoDaddy climbed 9% and 3.6%, respectively. The companies…
By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK (Reuters) -Wall Street stocks ended slightly lower on Friday in choppy trading after stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs data pointed to a robust economy but prompted worries the Federal Reserve may wait longer to cut interest rates than many investors had hoped. The U.S. economy generated about 272,000 jobs in May, far…
(Reuters) – Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway bought around 2.57 million shares of common stock in Occidental Petroleum over June 5-7, according to a U.S. securities filing. Buffett’s company bought additional shares in Occidental’s common stock for more than $150 million and now owns about 250.6 million shares in the energy producer. Occidental shares closed at…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Nippon Steel Vice Chairman Takahiro Mori met with U.S. Steel’s employees and community leaders this week to gain better understanding of its proposed acquisition of the U.S. company and saw positive reaction, a company spokesperson said. Mori, the key negotiator for the U.S. Steel deal, returned to the United States this week,…
(Reuters) – Walgreens Boots Alliance has shelved plans for a potential initial public offering of its UK-based Boots drugstore chain as sale talks continue, Bloomberg News reported on Friday citing people with knowledge of the matter. The pharmacy chain is now exploring other options for Boots and has continued informal talks with potential buyers, including…
By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former Allianz fund manager pleaded guilty on Friday over his role in a meltdown of private investment funds sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, and which according to prosecutors caused $7 billion of investor losses. Gregoire Tournant admitted to two counts of investment adviser fraud,…
By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – The legal team that voided Elon Musk’s record Tesla pay package deserves a tiny fraction of the $5.6 billion legal fee they requested because their lawsuit provided almost no benefit for the company, the electric automaker argued in court papers on Friday. Tesla said the legal team for…
(Reuters) – The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) voted on Friday to proceed with an investigation into whether solar panels from Southeast Asia are stifling domestic manufacturing, a step that could result in tariffs on the majority of panel imports. The four-member panel voted unanimously to pursue the probe into imports from Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia…
By Dani Morera and Andre Romani SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Meta launched its first AI-driven ad targeting program for businesses on WhatsApp, according to a press release Thursday, as it tries to wring revenue out of the popular chat service, the company announced at a conference in Brazil. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the new tools in…
By Marc Jones and Koh Gui Qing NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -World stocks hit an all-time high and the euro rose on Thursday after the European Central Bank cut interest rates for the first time in nearly five years, but also signalled that further moves could take a while. ECB policymakers duly delivered their widely-flagged quarter-point…
