Carl Icahn
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Just because doomsayers warn of Armageddon doesn’t mean they’re right
- Commercial Property
- February 11, 2020, 05:15
Markets are doomed. Again. Warnings of looming Armageddon have become routine over the last decade, so it wasn’t surprising to hear another apocalypti(...)

Xerox lines up Citigroup financing as it weighs bid for HP
- Manufacturing
- November 6, 2019, 17:26
Xerox has lined up financing from Citigroup as it weighs as potential bid for HP, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Xerox is consid(...)

Investors flock to Occidental jumbo-bond sale
- Markets
- August 6, 2019, 21:49
Occidental Petroleum is set to raise $13 billion (€11.6 billion) through the US bond market on Tuesday to fund its takeover of Anadarko, an acquisitio(...)

Google parent Alphabet overtakes Apple to become new king of cash
- Technology
- July 31, 2019, 14:10
The corporate world has a new king of cash. The title for the company with the biggest financial reserves, held by Apple for a decade, has passed to G(...)

Eldorado Resorts buys rival Caesars for about $8.58bn
- Retail & Services
- June 24, 2019, 16:21
Eldorado Resorts is buying Caesars Entertainment for about $8.58 billion in a deal backed by activist billionaire Carl Icahn that will create the larg(...)

MacKenzie Bezos promises to give away billions
- Technology
- May 29, 2019, 10:32
MacKenzie Bezos, who recently became the world’s fourth richest woman following her divorce from Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon, ha(...)

Investors pay the price when egos rule for fund managers
- Personal Finance
- April 9, 2019, 05:00
Legendary investor Bill Gross was the most successful bond manager of his generation but his career ended miserably earlier this year after he made ri(...)

Lyft beats rival Uber to go public, and offers shares to drivers
- Business
- March 3, 2019, 19:08
The San Francisco-based car-booking app Lyft has kicked off what is expected to be a record-breaking race by tech companies to the public markets this(...)

CRH shares jump as Europe’s largest activist investor reveals stake
- Construction
- February 6, 2019, 08:16
CRH shares jumped on Wednesday after Europe’s biggest activist investor said it has built up a stake in the building materials giant, prompting specul(...)

Dell sticking with $21.7bn plan to go public despite objections
- Business
- October 16, 2018, 15:30
Dell Technologies is sticking with its $21.7 billion plan to go public by buying its tracking stock, DVMT, despite investor Carl Icahn’s objections. (...)