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The Wall Street Journal | IPOs Are So Passé. Here’s How Employees Are Getting Rich Now.

For years, the biggest startup founders would dream of an initial public offering. It was the key to raising capital, drumming up attention and rewarding longtime employees and early investors with a big payout. Not any more. These days, many

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USA Today | This anti-‘woke’ investor is wooing Trump voters. His first target: Starbucks

At President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club Thursday, James Fishback, CEO and co-founder of Azoria Partners, unveiled a new anti-“woke” investment fund, the Azoria 500 Meritocracy ETF, that will mirror the S&P 500 index except in one respect: It will not include

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MarketWatch | Pony AI’s Nasdaq debut signals possible thaw in U.S. stock-market listings by Chinese companies

Autonomous-driving company Pony AI Inc.’s newly issued stock fell nearly 8% below its offering price of $13 a share Wednesday as the biggest initial public offering in months for a Chinese company began trading. The Pony AI offering potentially sets

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Swings in Building Permits Can Help Predict Financial Downturns‌

For a new study, Assistant Professor Gustavo Cortes and Yale School of Management’s Cameron LaPoint painstakingly assembled a dataset tracking local building permits over the last century. Again and again, they found, peaks in the issuing of permits preceded periods

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The Washington Post | Truth Social investors hoped to get ‘very rich’ after Trump’s win. Not quite.

Trump Media & Technology Group’s revenue and share price have sagged as its losses have piled up. The president-elect’s return to the White House could complicate things even more. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares his insights in this story

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USA Today | Trump’s social media company in talks to buy crypto firm Bakkt, FT reports

Donald Trump’s social media company ended the trading day up Monday on reports it’s looking to buy crypto trading firm Bakkt. Shares of Bakkt, backed by NYSE-owner Intercontinental Exchange, skyrocketed more than 160% and were halted multiple times due to volatility.

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The IPO window could reopen after 2 brutal years amid Trump trade ‘exuberance’

Investors have been waiting for the US IPO market to thaw after two challenging years. Donald Trump’s election win may help do just that. Since Trump’s victory last week, the stocks of investment banking leaders including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan,

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Klarna IPO emerges as fintechs gain traction and bankers signal more interest in stock debuts

Klarna, the buy-now-pay-later company, aims to tap into revival of interest in stocks like Affirm and SoFi with its recent IPO. With shares of other financial-technology, or fintech, companies such as Sofi Technologies Inc. on fire in recent weeks and

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Companies are buying up cheap carbon offsets − data suggest it’s more about greenwashing than helping the climate

Carbon offsets have become big business as more companies make promises to protect the climate but can’t meet the goals on their own. When a company buys carbon offsets, it pays a project elsewhere to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on

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Donald Trump will make a $400,000 salary as president. His shares in Trump Media could keep him rich to the tune of $8 billion

Analysts have spent years attempting to ascertain Trump’s precise net worth—and Trump hasn’t helped, by refusing to publish his tax returns over the years. According to Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter, though, the largest part of Trump’s paper wealth is

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