The supplier of everything from gauze to wheelchairs raised more than $6 bln at a $39 bln valuation, the biggest market debut ...

The cloud-to-e-commerce giant may invest $10 bln in the ChatGPT developer. That’s eye-catching: Amazon has deep ties with OpenAI rival Anthropic. Still, the AI race has become less about the models ...

Rival bidders have ditched financial logic in pursuing the studio's owner. Yet there's a way to avoid a damaging shootout: ...

Buyout-fund backers often wonder whether managers are marking their portfolios too generously. Häagen-Dazs's $18 bln unlisted ...

The buyout firm's return on selling its majority stake in boutique investment bank Avendus to the Japanese lender may be as low as 10%. That may seem easy to beat as M&A and capital-raising in the ...

The central bank will buy $40 bln of Treasury bills. Many officials, including some who may soon lead the institution, dislike its bloated balance sheet which keeps the market flooded with $3 trln of ...

Shares in the lender run by Brian Moynihan have trailed many of its big rivals in past years, while the valuation discount to ...

The artificial intelligence boom will upend how chips are made. For decades, the majority of the world’s semiconductors have been built on know-how developed by two players. That is starting to change ...

Brussels dropped a de facto 2035 ban on combustion engine cars. The rules are still stringent, however, making more Ford-style $20 bln writedowns unlikely. The problem is that governments may now be ...

Restrictive US trade practices last seen a century ago confoundingly have not led to a recession. Despite concerns about the cost of living, limited layoffs are keeping consumers spending, pushing up ...

Sanae Takaichi took office vowing to tackle rampant inflation, even though her fiscal ambitions look more likely to hasten price rises if successful. Concerns that Japan’s new prime minister could ...

It’s go big or go home for dealmakers. As of November 2025, acquisitions valued at more than $10 billion apiece were on pace to reach a new high, even as the total number of transactions tumbled. The ...