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Top 10 Highest Paid CEOs In 2023: Elon Musk Nowhere To Be Found, Where Tim Cook, Ted Sarandos Rank
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 3:56pm | 926Read More...Senator Bernie Sanders may want to look away from a new report that highlights 2023’s highest-paid CEOs of S&P 500 companies. The Vermont senator is working to pass legislation that would increase taxes on companies that pay their CEOs 50 times more than the pay of their median worker....
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How A Chance Encounter With Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Made This 77-Year-Old Wall Street Titan Pledge $500M For AI
Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 5:08am | 693Read More...Stephen Schwarzman, the 77-year-old CEO of Blackstone, a private equity giant, has emerged as a leading benefactor of artificial intelligence (AI) research and education. His contributions to this field have surpassed half a billion dollars. What Happened: Schwarzman’s interest in AI was...
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Tim Cook Missed Out On $100M Club In 2022 And These CEOs Fetched Much Fatter Pay Checks Than The Apple CEO
Tuesday, July 4, 2023 - 6:46am | 441Read More...Not all top-earning CEOs helm the largest companies. In fact, several chief executives, including those at Pinterest (NYSE:PINS), Peloton (NASDAQ:PTON), and Hertz (OTC:HTZGQ), outearned Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) Tim Cook’s $99 million in 2022, The Wall Street Journal reports. 1. Stephen...
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How Harvard Lost $150 Million To Yale: Blackstone Group CEO Explains
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 3:15pm | 451Read More...CEO and co-founder of Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) Stephen Schwarzman recently announced that he will be donating $150 million for a student center at his alma mater, Yale University. Schwarzman was on Bloomberg to discuss why he is donating to Yale and to talk about his other philanthropic...
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Blackstone Group CEO On Investing In Housing And The Chinese Stock Market's Overvaluation
Monday, April 27, 2015 - 4:15pm | 441Read More...Few people know that financial advisory and asset management behemoth Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) is one of the largest single, private owners of homes in the U.S. and, hence, its fortunes are hugely connected to the health of the housing market. Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone chairman and...
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5 Stocks For Yom Kippur
Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 3:54pm | 430Read More...Yom Kippur, the holiest and most solemn day of the year for Jews, is coming up this weekend. In honor of the holiday, Benzinga decided to profile some of the leading Jewish business leaders and their companies. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is one of the most innovative and admired companies in the world....
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Blackstone Group Eyes Investments in Russia
Saturday, June 18, 2011 - 9:09am | 146Read More...Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX), the world's biggest private-equity firm, has yet to invest in Russia. But on Friday CEO Stephen Schwarzman said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum that the firm may invest in a new fund being set up by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to spur foreign...
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Stephen Schwarzman On Bloomberg Television (BX)
Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 1:17pm | 294Read More...Stephen Schwarzman, founder of Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX), talks about the U.S. economy, housing and foreclosures. Schwarzman spoke yesterday with Bloomberg's Margaret Brennan in an exclusive interview at UBS AG's Wealth Management Roundtable. View the video here. Highlights can be found below...
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Blackstone's Schwarzman: Fed Easing Won't Make Much Difference (BX)
Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 1:14pm | 234Read More...Stephen Schwarzman, chief executive officer of Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX), said Thursday that another round of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve won't have much of an impact on companies. "It's not an enormous incentive to do something different with your businesses because rates are...
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Blackstone (BX) Confirms Plans To Back A Launch Of Retail Group In UK
Monday, January 25, 2010 - 12:11pm | 137Read More...Stephen Schwarzman, the chief executive of US based private equity investor Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX), has confirmed the group’s plan to back the launch of a retail bank in the UK. In a conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Schwarzman said that Blackstone was looking at entering the retail...
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Blackstone (BX) Says The Best Is Yet To Come
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 8:39am | 300Read More...Blackstone Group's (NYSE: BX) CEO Stephen Schwarzman said the worst of the industry's (private-equity) problems were behind it, and dealflow and IPO opportunities are opening up again. Schwarzman said in letter that Reuters obtained that he's seeing "more than green shoots" of economic recovery,...
