Paramount’s ‘Dramatic’ Stock Decline Shows a Lack of Faith in Skydance’s David Ellison, Ariel Investments Founder Says

thewrap.com As Paramount Global and Skydance Media’s exclusive talks about a potential merger continue, Ariel Investments founder and co-CEO John Rogers Jr. told TheWrap that the media…

Private equity group CVC plans €1.25bn Amsterdam float

theguardian.com CVC Capital Partners, one of Europe’s largest private equity groups, has announced plans to raise more than €1.25bn (£1.1bn) in an initial public offering in Amsterdam. The…

Want $27,000 In Passive Income? Invest $50,000 In These Dividend Stocks

247wallst.com Herman Minsky was an American economist and a professor of economics at Washington University and Bard College. He was one of the first economists to successfully explain…

Paramount Pursuit of Skydance Exclusive Talks Over Competitive Bids ‘Averse to Fair Market Value,’ Investor Says

thewrap.com Ariel Investments has weighed in on Paramount’s ongoing merger talks with Skydance Media, and the longtime studio investor would like to see things opened up to competitive…

IPO & Takeover Activity to Take-off

invstr-crunch.zencast.website Today on Invstr Crunch we will be talking about KKR co-EO’s expecting an IPO and takeover revival and the IEA forecasting a slow-down in oil-demand growth.

‘Omnissa’ may be new brand for VMware end-user products

theregister.com VMware's end user compute products appear likely to be rebranded as Omnissa after being sold off. Broadcom decided to sell VMware's portfolio of desktop and application…

David Ellison, son of the world’s 9th-richest man, is poised to become a Hollywood power player as he closes in on buying Paramount

finance.yahoo.com The production company behind Top Gun: Maverick might fly to the top of Paramount’s mountain of content. Skydance Media, the production studio owned by Larry Ellison’s son…

Private equity firms are so terrified of antitrust watchdogs they may have withheld information about deals, DOJ official says

fortune.com The US Justice Department is looking into whether some private equity firms intentionally withheld information from antitrust enforcers during deal reviews to avoid the…

Paramount’s Future: Is Skydance Deal “Path of Least Resistance” or Will It Get Derailed?

hollywoodreporter.com Will Paramount Global end up looking for a new dance partner or will David Ellison’s Skydance Media get to clinch a deal and celebrate with a victory dance? Hollywood and…

Skydance to Meet With Paramount Management Next Week

thewrap.com David Ellison’s Skydance Media will meet with Paramount Global management next week as the two parties continue exclusive talks about a proposed acquisition of Shari…

KKR (NYSE:KKR) Aims for $1 Trillion in AUM

tipranks.com Global private equity major, KKR & Co (NYSE:KKR), aims to reach an AUM (Assets Under Management) of $1 trillion in the next five years. The company...

Breaking News from ’s David Faber: Skydance to Meet with Paramount Management, Begin Due Diligence Next Week

cnbc.com WHERE: CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" Following is the unofficial transcript of breaking news from CNBC's David Faber on "Squawk on the Street" (M-F, 9AM-11AM ET) today,…

Inside the Controversial Bid to Buy the Studio Behind 'The Godfather' and 'Top Gun: Maverick'

vanityfair.com About 30 years ago, the Paramount business was at the center of one of the most infamous takeover battles in corporate history, with bold-faced names like Barry Diller, John…

Financial Services Roundup: Market Talk

wsj.com HSBC, KKR and more in the latest Market Talks covering Financial Services.

KKR Ramps Up Strategy of Getting Financial Advisors to Put Wealthy Clients in Alts

barrons.com KKR is bullish on alternatives in private wealth. At its investor day on Wednesday, the global investment manager detailed an ambitious strategy of expanding the reach of…

Paramount Board Members to Step Down Amid Skydance Talks

thewrap.com Paramount Global board directors Dawn Ostroff, Nicole Seligman and Rob Klieger are due to step down, The Wall Street Journal reports. The trio are expected to depart their…

KKR Doubled Its Private Equity Assets in Five Years. Can It Do That Again?

institutionalinvestor.com The past five years for the private equity business at KKR have been celebratory. Private equity assets under management grew from $81 billion in 2018 to $176 billion at the…

Simon & Schuster Turns 100 With a New Owner and a Sense of Optimism

nytimes.com More than 1,000 people came out on Tuesday night in Manhattan to nibble on steak, dance to Britney Spears and play pingpong in celebration of the 100th anniversary of one of…

Guesty Raises $130 Million to Expand Short-Term Rental, Hospitality Platform

pymnts.com Guesty raised $130 million in a Series F funding round to expand the capabilities and global footprint of its property management software platform for the short-term rental…

KKR & Co. Previews Investor Day Presentation Online

tipranks.com KKR & Co (KKR) has provided an announcement. KKR & Co. Inc. announced that it has released a presentation for its upcoming Investor Day tailored fo...

Guesty, a platform for accommodation managers to manage Airbnbs and more, raised $130M, sources say at a $900M valuation, after raising a $170M Series E in 2022

techcrunch.com Travel and tourism are very much back on the map for consumers and the business world. Now, to underscore that surge, one of the startups building software in the space has…

Meta ‘discussed buying publisher Simon & Schuster to train AI’

theguardian.com Staff at technology company Meta discussed buying publishing house Simon & Schuster last year in order to procure books to train the company’s artificial intelligence tools,…

Why are discounters like 99 Cents Only Stores in dire straits?

marketplace.org The 99 Cents Only Store — a refuge of affordability where you could buy decorations for a dinner party, the dinnerware and the food all in one trip — has announced that it…

Paramount Shareholder Urges Board to End Skydance Exclusive Talks

thewrap.com Paramount shareholder Aspen Sky Trust has joined Matrix Asset Advisors in its opposition of the current exclusive talks with David Ellison’s Skydance Media regarding a…

Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies

bostonherald.com Anna Claire Vollers | (TNS) Stateline.org HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — About a year ago, veterinarian Melissa Ezell started noticing subtle changes at the midsized animal clinic in…

This Main Street Billionaire Bought Over A Thousand Small Businesses

forbes.com Justin Ishbia may not be as well known (or as rich) as his younger brother Mat. But with a $7 billion portfolio of veterinary clinics, autism treatment centers and bakeries,…

BlackRock Tokenizes Fund for Accredited Investors on Ethereum Blockchain

thedefiant.io The BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund has the token ticker BUIDL BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, tokenized a recently-launched fund on the…

Can Arc’teryx’s owner revive Chinese IPOs in America?

economist.com Foreign acquisitions by Chinese buyers have a lousy reputation. The takeover of PizzaExpress, a British restaurant chain, by Hony Capital, a Chinese private-equity firm,…

Wall Street titans are betting big on insurers. What could go wrong?

economist.com Blackstone listed on the New York Stock Exchange during the summer of 2007. Doing so just before the global financial crisis was hardly auspicious, and come early 2009 the…

5 Ultra-Yield Dividend Stocks To Buy in April

247wallst.com Investors love dividend stocks, especially the ultra-yield variety because they provide a significant income stream and also may offer massive total returns. Total return…

Investors Slam Skydance-Paramount Deal, Lawsuits Loom

thewrap.com As Paramount and Skydance inch closer towards a deal that would give David Ellison’s media company control through Shari Redstone and National Amusements’ stake,…

Paramount Stock Falters As Investors Sweat Details Of Skydance-National Amusements Talks

deadline.com Paramount Global‘s beleaguered stock faltered Monday as investors fretted over the ongoing talks between controlling shareholder National Amusements Inc. and Skydance Media.…

Avendus, top India venture advisor, seeks $300 million for new PE fund

techcrunch.com Avendus, India’s leading investment bank for venture deals, is looking to raise about $300 million for its private equity unit, according to three sources familiar with the…

Big Tech needs to get creative as it runs out of data to train its AI models. Here are some of its wildest solutions

aol.com None OpenAI, Meta, Google, and other Big Tech firms train their AI models using online data. • None But AI models learn so fast that all that data could run out by 2026. •…

Paramount: What The Skydance Proposal Means For Investors (NASDAQ:PARA)

seekingalpha.com Shari Redstone is finally willing to sell – but the exact terms matter Until recently, even the very hypothesis that Shari Redstone might not sell after all was not totally…

Meta is so desperate for data sources to train its AI it weighed risking copyright lawsuits: report

aol.com None Tech giants have been scrambling to find new data sources to train their AI systems. • None Meta considered several ways to harvest data, including buying Simon &…

Skydance’s Paramount Offer Would Include Up to 50% Ownership Stake, Raising New Equity

thewrap.com Skydance Media’s offer to acquire Shari Redstone’s National Amusements and merge with Paramount Global’s film and TV studio would give David Ellison’s media giant a…

Skydance's unique offer for Paramount Global would give it a large stake while keeping the company public

cnbc.com Skydance Media's offer to acquire National Amusements and merge its studio with Paramount Pictures isn't a conventional takeover. The question for Paramount Global…

Paramount and Skydance edge closer to a merger agreement

fastcompany.com With Warner Bros seemingly out of the picture, Paramount could be closer to finding a merger partner. The Wall Street Journal reports the entertainment giant has paused…

Want $3000 In Passive Income? Invest $4000 Into These Dividend Stocks

247wallst.com Investors who depend on income from their investments for at least some of their lifestyle expenses will also be impacted. The 4% CD yields from banks may soon disappear,…

5 Ways For Retail Investors To Access The Private Equity Sector: From ETFs To Online Platforms

benzinga.com The importance of retail investors cannot be underestimated. Last year, in the United States, they contributed approximately a fifth of all stock trading volume.…

Daily Open: Disney wins proxy fight

cnbc.com Robert Iger, President and CEO of Walt Disney Company announces a $5 million dollar donation with Mickey Mouse for the New Hospital Building at Children's Hospital Los…

KKR says China's real estate correction may only be halfway done

cnbc.com BEIJING — China's real estate troubles are likely far from over and industry problems need to be addressed quickly if overall GDP growth is to pick up significantly,…

Paramount Global Stock Price Soars as Skydance Media Deal Talks Progress

hollywoodreporter.com Paramount Global shares are soaring as talks of a deal with Skydance Media continue to heat up. The stock price rose by 15 percent Wednesday, all in the minutes leading up…

Paramount Stock Jumps as Skydance Merger Talks Continue

thewrap.com Shares of Paramount Global surged 14.9% during Wednesday’s trading session after Bloomberg reported that the media conglomerate’s special committee of independent directors…

Where BlackRock Goes, Liquidity Flows

coindesk.com BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) is not the first of its kind to list on Securitize’s platform, but it’s likely the product that will catalyze…

Hyundai Marine Solution targets South Korea's biggest IPO in 2 years

asia.nikkei.com SEONGNAM, South Korea -- The maintenance and repair unit of South Korean shipbuilding conglomerate HD Hyundai Group is aiming to raise as much as 742 billion won ($550…