Swedish mobile telecoms company Ericsson has agreed to pay over $1 billion to resolve a probe into corruption, including bribing of government officials, over many years in countries including China, Vietnam, and Djibouti, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement on Friday.
Swedish mobile telecoms company Ericsson has agreed to pay over $1 billion to resolve a probe into corruption, including bribing of government officials, over many years in countries including China, Vietnam, and Djibouti, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement on Friday. Ericsson has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement related to its scheme to make and improperly record tens of millions of dollars in payments, the Department said. The total includes a criminal penalty of more than $520 million and another $540 to be paid to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a related …read more […]
Mobile telecoms gear maker Ericsson has agreed to pay over $1 billion to resolve a foreign corruption probe, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement on Friday.
A federal jury in Los Angeles began deliberating on Friday to decide whether Tesla Inc boss Elon Musk defamed a British cave explorer whose lawyer said the “billionaire bully” should pay at least $190 million for branding his client a “pedo guy” on Twitter.
(Bloomberg) — Oil doubters got a surprise from Saudi Arabia on Friday: a pledge of deeper production cuts that sent futures surging for their best week since June.Hedge funds didn’t see that coming as they slashed net-bullish wagers on West Texas Intermediate crude by 24% in the days leading up to the OPEC meeting in Vienna, data released Friday show. Futures ended the week 7.3% higher in New York, closing above $59 a barrel for the first time since the aftermath of an attack on Saudi premises in September.Money managers “didn’t know that this OPEC decision was coming,” Rob Haworth, …read more […]
(Bloomberg) — An experimental therapy from Bluebird Bio Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. benefited more than 80% of patients nearing death from an advanced form of blood cancer in a pivotal study, clearing a hurdle in its path to U.S. approval.A single high-dose infusion of the personalized medicine known as bb2121 generated a response in 44 of 54 patients with multiple myeloma, including 19 who had a complete response, the companies said in a statement Friday. Patients went a median of 11.3 months before the cancer progressed, topping expectations that it needed to stop the disease for at least six …read more […]
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Wall Street ended solidly higher on Friday as a strong jobs report and optimism about U.S.-China trade negotiations ahead of an upcoming deadline helped stoke investor risk appetite.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Friday it was seeking a $3.9 million fine from Boeing Co for installing defective parts on about 130 737 airplanes.
We are still in an overall bull market and many stocks that smart money investors were piling into surged through the end of November. Among them, Facebook and Microsoft ranked among the top 3 picks and these stocks gained 54% and 51% respectively. Hedge funds’ top 3 stock picks returned 41.7% this year and beat […] …read more […]
As we already know from media reports and hedge fund investor letters, hedge funds delivered their best returns in a decade. Most investors who decided to stick with hedge funds after a rough 2018 recouped their losses by the end of the third quarter. We get to see hedge funds’ thoughts towards the market and […] …read more […]
By Shadia Nasralla, Olesya Astakhova and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
Before putting in our own effort and resources into finding a good investment, we can quickly utilize hedge fund expertise to give us a quick glimpse of whether that stock could make for a good addition to our portfolios. The odds are not exactly stacked in investors’ favor when it comes to beating the market, […] …read more […]
Tesla founder Elon Musk should pay at least $190 million in damages for defaming a British cave explorer in tweets that suggested he was a pedophile and were like a “nuclear bomb,” the plaintiff’s lawyer said on Friday.
Morgan Stanley raised its bullish case for Tesla to $500 per share. Yahoo Finance’s Seana Smith and Dan Roberts discuss. …read more […]
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