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Fintech Spotlight: How Atom Finance Democratizes Investment Research
Monday, January 4, 2021 - 9:51am | 874Despite increased access to financial markets, the barriers to actionable, institutional-quality research remain high. That’s according to Eric Shoykhet, the CEO at Atom Finance, an up and coming platform that’s stealing market share from legacy solutions like S&P Capital IQ and...
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Last Week's Notable Insider Buys: Del Taco, First American And More
Sunday, October 25, 2020 - 2:37pm | 879Insider buying can be an encouraging signal for potential investors when markets face uncertainty. Some insiders were buying shares in the wake of earnings reports last week. A couple of insiders made return trips to the buy window. Conventional wisdom says that insiders and 10% owners really...
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Notable Insider Buys Last Week: Blackstone, CarMax And More
Sunday, October 4, 2020 - 9:32am | 918Insider buying can be an encouraging signal for potential investors when markets face uncertainty. Some insiders were making return trips to the buy window last week. Some of those purchases were made by C-level executives. Conventional wisdom says that insiders and 10%...
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Fintech Focus For September 7, 2020
Sunday, September 6, 2020 - 4:51pm | 2051Quote Of The Day: Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide. - Henri Barbusse Fintech Movers: The European fintech scene has experienced tremendous growth over the last few years. One of the key drivers of this growth is open banking. This is causing financial...
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Notable Insider Buys: AT&T, Kinder Morgan And More
Saturday, August 1, 2020 - 3:56pm | 695Insider buying can be an encouraging signal for potential investors during periods of uncertainty. The executive chair of an energy infrastructure firm has returned to the buy window. None of the featured stocks saw a gain in the past week. Conventional wisdom says that insiders and 10% owners...
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Buyout Hopes Raised As Blackstone Picks Up $360M Stake In Australian Casino Operator Crown
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 - 5:27am | 380Blackstone Group Inc. (NYSE: BX), a private equity company, has purchased a 10% stake in Australia based casino operator Crown Resorts, leading to a sharp spike in Crown’s shares. What Happened Blackstone acquired the stake from Macau based Melco Resorts & Entertainment Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLCO...
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Nuveen Real Estate Buys $3 Billion US Industrial Portfolio From Blackstone
Monday, October 7, 2019 - 6:01pm | 331Nuveen Real Estate announced October 7 that it acquired 100 U.S. logistics properties from Blackstone Group's real estate arm (NYSE: BX) valued at $3 billion, a move that significantly expands Nuveen Real Estate's U.S. logistics real estate portfolio. Nuveen Real Estate said it acquired 29 million...
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Blackstone Puts Money Where Mouth Is By Dropping $5.9 Billion For Colony Industrial's Last-Mile Logistics Network
Monday, September 30, 2019 - 2:41pm | 691Top executives at Blackstone Group's real estate unit have said repeatedly that last-mile logistics real estate is the unit's "highest-conviction global investment themes." They backed up that claim on September 30 by paying $5.9 billion for the U.S. last-mile portfolio of Colony Industrial, the...
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Blackstone Turns To Europe For Last-Mile Logistics Real Estate Domination
Thursday, September 26, 2019 - 9:54am | 378Global asset management titan Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX), fresh from a major leap into the U.S. logistics real estate market, has extended its last-mile infrastructure reach into Europe by forming a company called "Mileway" to support pan-European last-mile delivery operations. The new company...
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Nielsen Holdings Drops 10% After New York Post Report
Thursday, March 28, 2019 - 12:01pm | 391Shares of measurement and data analytics company Nielsen Holdings PLC (NYSE: NLSN) lost 10 percent Thursday morning in reaction to a New York Post report. What Happened Nielsen's management said in late 2018 it was considering strategic alternatives, including a sale. One of the...
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Saudi Investment Helps Solidify Long Thesis For Blackstone
Monday, May 22, 2017 - 2:12pm | 336Shares of Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) gained more than 6 percent on Monday and hit a new 52-week high of $32.10 after the company successfully raised $20 billion for an infrastructure fund. The government of Saudi Arabia pledged $20 billion to Blackstone's newly created infrastructure investment...
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Watch SeaWorld: Massive Stake Acquired For 33% Premium
Friday, March 24, 2017 - 9:27am | 576SeaWorld Entertainment Inc (NYSE: SEAS) is soaring in Friday's pre-market session after it announced that the Zhonghong Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zhonghong Zhuoye Group, will acquire a 21 percent interest in it from certain selling shareholders at $23 per share, a roughly 33 percent...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Blackstone, Norwegian Cruise, Chipotle And More
Sunday, March 12, 2017 - 4:16pm | 615This weekend's Barron's asks how one alternative-asset manager stacks up against its peers. Other featured articles tale a look at the prospects for a cruise line operator on the rise and a beverage can maker that has been crushed. The outlooks for a hospital REIT facing a setback...
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Is Extended Stay's Debt Load Too Heavy Of A Burden?
Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 3:33pm | 476Extended Stay America Inc (NYSE: STAY) is an owner/operator of company-branded hotels in North America in the mid-priced, extended-stay segment. While hotels are as tough of a business as any to be in — as they are asset-oriented — Extended Stay America stands out because of its...
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Blackstone's Byron Wien: 2016 Will End Up Being 'A Down Year For The Market'
Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 9:41am | 269Byron Wien is Blackstone's vice chairman and a senior adviser to the world's largest alternative asset management firm. When he speaks, investors listen. And when he is bearish on the market, investors listen even more closely. Speaking to CNBC Wednesday afternoon, Wien said that 2016 will prove to...