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Intercontinental Exchange ICE, +2.90% said late Thursday it priced $8 billion in bonds to finance its $13 billion acquisition of Black Knight Inc. BKI, -0.10%. The deal has 11 joint book-running managers including Bank of America Corp.’s BAC, +0.29% BofA Securities Inc. unit, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS, +2.53%, Wells Fargo Securities LLC WFC, +1.99%, […]
Shares of medical scrubs and accessories company Figs Inc. FIGS, -24.98% sank 23% in Friday premarket trading after it reported first-quarter results that missed expectations and lowered its guidance. Net income totaled $8.9 million, or 5 cents per share, down from $11.4 million, or 7 cents per share, last year. Revenue of $110.1 million was […]
Warren Buffett’s holding company Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK.A, +0.73% BRK.B, +0.75% acquired 901,768 shares of Occidental Petroleum OXY, +8.21% in two purchases this week valued at a combined $52 million, according to a filing. Berkshire Hathaway bought 716,355 shares at $57.32 a share on Tuesday, and then acquired 185,419 shares at a price of $57.34 […]
BTC’s latest network difficulty all-time high makes it nearly impossible for bad actors to represent over 50% of the hash rate. 1865 Total views 34 Total shares Further distancing itself from any concerns of planned attacks on the blockchain, the Bitcoin (BTC) network established a new mining difficulty all-time high of 31.251 trillion — exceeding […]
Charles Schwab Corp. SCHW, +1.02% on Friday reported a $6.5 billion drop in net new assets excluding mutual fund clearing as clients sold down their asset for cash disbursements during tax season. The broker said the move marked the highest ever client cash disbursements at Schwab. “These outflows include the impact of client portfolio actions […]
Credit AgricoleAsia overnight The dust has tentatively settled across financial markets overnight, with risk sentiment making a timid recovery. In this context, the USD has given up only a modest part of the ground made yesterday against all G10 FX peers bar the JPY which has been a clearer underperformer during the Asian session. USD/JPY […]