Acquisitions/Mergers/Shareholdings

UnitedHealth Group ’s earnings report Friday morning triggered a premarket flurry of selling in managed care stock, after the company reported higher-than-expected medical costs in the fourth quarter of…

Alibaba Group Holding boosted ts stock repurchases in the fourth quarter to $2.9 billion, up from $1.7 billion in the third quarter, as the company’s share price declined. The Chinese e-commerce giant bought back $9.5 billion…

Newmark Group Inc. said Friday it arranged the sale of the 62-story Aon Center in downtown Los Angeles for $153.5 million in what the real-estate-development company described as the largest fourth-quarter deal for…

U.S. stocks closed lower on Monday to start the last week of the month. Shares in Crown Castle gained 3.4% to $107.15 in response to news that the owner of wireless towers was the target of renewed activist…

Broadcom plans to close on its merger with VMware on Wednesday after getting conditional approval for the deal Tuesday from China’s antitrust regulator.China’s State…

Stocks fell Friday, as investors reacted to signals from the Federal Reserve that it could keep interest rates higher for longer.  Ford (ticker: F) rose 1.9%, General Motors (GM)…

Published: Aug. 23, 2023 at 4:05 a.m. ET By Ian Walker Shares of Bluebird Merchant Ventures rose as much as 24% in early trade after the company said Catalyse Capital is buying Southern Gold's 17.8% shareholding in the…

Published: Aug. 7, 2023 at 3:09 a.m. ET By Anthony O. Goriainoff Fulcrum Metals said on Monday that it has agreed to buy a 100% interest in Ontario's Tully gold project from 1911 Gold Corp. for 800,000 Canadian dollars…

National Instruments shares jumped 9.3% to $57.45. Emerson had made a hostile bid for National Instruments back in January, but National Instruments said it wanted to seek alternatives. Emerson Electric shares fell 1.9%.…

LevelField Financial plans to announce an acquisition of Burling Bank, an FDIC-insured chartered retail bank housed in the Chicago Board of Trade building with a specialty in services for professional traders. The…