Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s lead over Gov. Jeff Colyer in the Republican primary has shrunk to only 91 votes after election officials discovered a mistake in the listing for one county’s results in the state’s tally of votes. The lead is minuscule when compared with the 311,000 votes cast. …read more […]
The S&P 500 and Dow ended down slightly on Thursday as gains in Apple and Amazon were offset by losses in energy and financial shares.
Tesla Inc’s shares slipped nearly 5 percent on Thursday, wiping out the gains fueled by Chief Executive Elon Musk’s announcement of a plan to take the company private, after reports of concern by regulators and on doubt the deal could be done.
Billionaire investor Daniel Loeb’s hedge fund Third Point LLC disclosed on Thursday it has partnered with fellow Campbell Soup Co shareholder George Strawbridge to call for a sale of the iconic U.S. food company best known for its canned soups.
The data-storage specialist calls this an “excellent capital allocation opportunity to enhance long-term shareholder value.” …read more […]
Online file storage firm Dropbox Inc signed up more paying subscribers in its second quarter as a public company than Wall Street was expecting.
The S&P 500 and Dow ended down slightly on Thursday as gains in Apple and Amazon were offset by losses in energy shares.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc was sued on Thursday by a former managing director who said the Wall Street bank retaliated against him and fired him after he complained about its dealings with an unidentified, “notorious European businessman.”
The S&P 500 was up slightly on Thursday afternoon and again close to a record high on the back of gains in Apple, Amazon and Microsoft.
Tesla Inc’s shares slipped more than 5 percent to a two-day low on Thursday, wiping out all the gains fueled by Chief Executive Elon Musk’s recent tweet announcing a plan to take the company private.
The exchange was detailed in a lawsuit filed Thursday by Tribune, which said Sinclair had failed to win regulatory clearance in part because it had insulted U.S. officials and rejected their offers to clear the transaction. The acquisition of Tribune and its 42 television stations would have made Sinclair, already the owner of more U.S. TV stations than any other company, so large it would need to sell some outlets to meet regulatory requirements. In January, the Justice Department’s top antitrust official, Makan Delrahim, told the companies the department would approve the merger if Sinclair agreed to sell …read more […]
Hedge fund Glenview Capital Management on Thursday backed health insurer Cigna Corp’s deal to buy pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts in the face of stiff opposition from activist investor Carl Icahn ahead of a shareholder vote.
Daniel Loeb’s activist hedge fund Third Point LLC is in talks to partner with Campbell Soup Co shareholder George Strawbridge to call for a sale of the U.S. consumer company, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
Tesla Inc’s shares slipped more than 6 percent to a two-day low on Thursday, to trade below its level before Chief Executive Elon Musk took to Twitter on Tuesday to announce he was considering taking the electric car maker private.
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has held up his closely held space transportation company SpaceX as a model for taking his loss-making electric car company private, saying he wants existing Tesla investors to continue to hold stock.
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