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Financial Daily Dose 11.20.2020 | Top Story: BuzzFeed Acquires HuffPost from Verizon Media

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BuzzFeed has struck a deal with Verizon Media to acquire HuffPost, a mash-up that “would join a pair of digital-media giants that have found themselves searching for readers and revenue as they have fallen prey to some of the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.9.2020 | Top Story: Pfizer’s Vaccine News and Election Certainty Propel Wall Street Futures Skyward

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So . . . .  Nice, quiet week while we were gone, right? Wall Street forecasts are always dicey, but it sure looks like Pfizer’s solid vaccine news (along with this weekend’s newfound presidential certainty) could make for...more

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Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines, November 2020 # 3

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In Washington: The federal government’s role in physically distributing COVID-19 vaccines remains unclear. President Trump said last month that the military would distribute vaccines. But a spokesman for Operation Warp...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.26.2020 | Top Story: Inspire Brands In Talks to Acquire Dunkin for Deal Worth $8.8 Billion

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PE-backed Inspire Brands is in negotiations to take over Dunkin’ Brands Group, the parent of both Dunkin’ and Baskin-Robbins, in a deal valued at nearly $9 billion. Inspire includes Buffalo Wild Wings and Jimmy John’s among...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.19.2020 | Top Story: ConocoPhillips Buys Oil Producer Concho Resources in Deal Worth Nearly $10B

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ConocoPhillips is doubling down on its commitment to the Midland basin by buying Concho Resources Inc. in “an all-stock transaction valued at $9.7 billion,” even “as the American shale-drilling industry is facing a downturn...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.8.2020 | Top Story: Feds fine Citi $400M over “Longstanding” Governance Failures

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Federal regulators—including the Federal Reserve and the OCC—have fined Citigroup $400 million over “longstanding” failures in the areas of risk management, data governance, and internal controls. In addition to the fine, the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.2.2020 | Top Story: Covid-Infected POTUS Injects Volatility to Skittish Global Markets

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Markets globally and U.S. futures are down as investors digest the news out of D.C. overnight... Jobs Report Friday again. Here’s what we’re watching for in the numbers....more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.25.2020 | Top Story: US Jobless Claims Rise As Recovery Stagnates

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New U.S. unemployment claims rose last week according to data released on Thursday, the latest sign that America’s recovery from the pandemic-induced recession is slowing—a “particularly worrisome” trend as cold-state...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.17.2020 | Top Story: Fed Pledges to Hold Rates Near Zero Into 2023; Markets Rattled

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The Fed sought to reassure markets for the foreseeable future on Wednesday by announcing that it plans to hold rates at their near-zero mark until into 2023 as it tries to “coax the economy back to full strength after the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.1.2020 | Top Story: Walmart to Roll Out Shipping Membership to Challenge Amazon’s Prime Dominance

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Walmart is again preparing to roll out its answer to Amazon Prime: Walmart+, a sub-$100/year membership service that features gas discounts and some free shipping (at qualifying thresholds)....more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.25.2020 | Top Story: U.S. and China Resume Trade Talks Over Phase One Status

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Despite an earlier White House promise to postpone, American and Chinese trade negotiators met via videoconference on Monday to discuss “the status of the trade deal both nations signed in January, a pact that continues to...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.24.2020 | Top Story: TikTok Confirms Plans to Sue U.S. over Recent Executive Orders Targeting App

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More on TikTok’s plans to sue the U.S. over the White House’s recent executive orders seeking to block the app on American soil and force its owner, ByteDance, to sell its American assets. The company intends to argue that...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.20.2020 | Top Story: Apple Becomes First U.S. Company to Hit $2 Trillion Valuation Mark

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Apple tipped the $2 trillion mark this week, the first U.S. company to reach that valuation milestone, doing so just 2 years after it first hit $1 trillion. That it’s done so in the middle of a pandemic only punctuates how...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.13.2020 | Top Story: Uber and Lyft Warn Gig-Worker Ruling Could Push Them Out of California

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Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft are warning that California’s new moves forcing them to classify their drivers as employees could force them both to shutter their operations altogether in that state (at least while they...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.6.2020 | Top Story: Facebook Launches Instagram Reels to Compete with TikTok

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Never one to let a competitor’s misfortune pass by without looking for an opportunity, Facebook’s Instagram is hoping to capitalize on TikTok’s questionable U.S. status by launching Reels, a new feature that allows users to...more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.14.2020 | Top Story: Amazon Wins Injunction of JEDI Cloud-Computing Contract

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In a massive win for Amazon (because, again, Jeff NEEDS it), Court of Federal Claims Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith has granted the company’s motion for an injunction halting Microsoft’s work on the $10 billion cloud-computing...more

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In Case You Missed It - Interesting Items for Corporate Counsel - December 2019

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The NYSE proposed in November changes to its listing standards to allow “primary” share offerings through a direct listing. To date, direct listings have been in the form of stockholder share resales (a “secondary offering”)...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.06.2019 | Top Story: Aramco Prices Shares at High-end of Range That Would Value Company at $1.7 trillion

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Saudi Aramco has priced its offering at the high end of its range, setting the company up to raise more than $25 billion and value the company at nearly $1.7 trillion—all part of what promises to make this the world’s biggest...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.16.2019 | Top Story: Aramco Seeks Valuation of $1.7B, Well below Original Goal

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Saudi Aramco’s slow trickle of IPO-related information continued this weekend, including its goal of setting overall company market value at a staggering $1.7 trillion. The figure, though massive, is still well short of the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.14.2019 | Top Story: WeWork Board Weighing Bailout Options from SoftBank and JPMorgan

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We Work’s largest investor, SoftBank, is reportedly sketching out plans in which it would drop billions of additional money on the company in return for giving Masa Son control of WeWork “and further sidelin[ing] its founder...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.11.2019 | Top Story: France’s Renault Cans CEO Over Ties to ex-Nissan Chief Carlos Ghosn

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Because the Nissan leadership scandal is about as well-contained as Chernobyl in the early days [thanks, HBO], French automaker Renault has voted this morning to remove Chief Executive Thierry Bolloré amid concerns over the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.23.2019 | Top Story: WeWork Board Considering Ousting CEO

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WeWork’s drama in past weeks—which includes a planned and postponed public offering thanks to rough financials and dicey corporate governance—is prompting the company to consider swapping out founder Adam Neumann as CEO to...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.20.2019 | Top Story: Fintech startup Stripe Inc. hits $35 billion valuation in latest funding round

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Fintech firm Stripe Inc., which “allows internet companies and online marketplaces to accept credit cards for their goods and services and pay out money to the people and firms that sell on their platforms,” just wrapped a...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.19.2019 | Top Story: Fed Cuts Rates Another Quarter percent

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As pretty much expected, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates a quarter point again yesterday, its second cut since late July. Fed Chair Powell also indicated in remarks after the FOMC broke that a “‘more extensive’ series...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.17.2019 | Top Story: WeWork to Delay Planned IPO Until at Least October

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Shared office-space company WeWork, which had committed to moving forward with its planned IPO this week despite recent turmoil, appears likely to postpone the offering until at least October in an effort to shore up its...more

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