Companies are unveiling plans to repurchase their own shares at a record pace, lending support to the battered stock market. Firms in the S&P 500 have outlined buyback plans valued at $238 billion through the first two months of 2022, according to data from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS 1.29% a high for this point […]
Text size AMC Empire 25 Theater in Times Square, New York Dreamstime AMC Entertainment just struck gold. Literally. The movie theater company announced it has bought a 22% stake in Hycroft Mining Holding and its 71,000-acre gold and silver mine in northern Nevada. CMA (ticker: AMC) will invest $27.9 million in cash in Hycroft ( […]
Soroban Capital Partners LP, a $10 billion stock-picking hedge fund in New York, is one of the biggest winners, making at least several hundred million dollars on the trade since February, a person familiar with the matter said. Other winners include New York macro fund Castle Hook Partners and value investor Pilgrim Global. The bet […]
US stocks fell Thursday, as investors weighed up surging US consumer price inflation, a hawkish tilt from the European Central Bank, and stalled Russia-Ukraine negotiations. Oil prices were also rising again. How are stock-index futures trading? The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.37% fell 357 points, or 1.1%, to 32,930. The S&P 500 SPX, -1.56% […]
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