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Daikin shares jump 14% after activist investor Elliott pushes for reforms
Shares of Daikin Industries surged as much as 13.9% on Thursday after activist investor Elliott Investment Management said it would work with the company to improve performance and narrow its valuation gap with peers. The stock later pared gains and was up about 11% as of 10:40 a.m. local time. “Elliott’s significant investment in Daikin reflects […]
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Samsung SDS shares jump 20% on KKR partnership and $820 million bond purchase
The Samsung exhibition stand features the prominent ”A new era of mobile agentic AI” slogan by the South Korean company Samsung Electronics. Joan Cros | Nurphoto | Getty Images Shares of Samsung SDS surged as much as 21.3% on Wednesday after global private equity firm KKR agreed to invest 1.22 trillion won ($820 million) of […]
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Cramer: The market’s biggest fears ‘just didn’t happen’ – and that’s why you can’t leave the game
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said investors who fled the market during recent volatility may be grappling with a familiar realization that the worst-case scenarios driving their decisions never materialized. “What we have is a rally that appears to be based on nothing,” said the “Mad Money” host on Tuesday. “But in reality, it’s based on the […]
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AI data center boom ‘stress tests’ insurers as private capital floods in
AI data centers are becoming a “stress test” for insurers as rapid technological advancements and the use of increasingly complex financial structures present a unique set of challenges and opportunities for the sector. Global spending on data centers could reach $7 trillion by 2030, according to McKinsey, and much of that spending can no longer […]
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Blue Owl caps private credit funds redemptions at 5% after steep request levels
Blue Owl is experiencing elevated redemption requests for two of its private credit funds, according to letters to shareholders issued Thursday. The firm’s flagship OCIC fund, with about $36 billion in assets under management, received redemption requests of about 21.9% of shares outstanding during the first quarter, the firm said. Blue Owl’s smaller, tech-oriented fund, […]
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‘Not unlike tariffs’: Iran war threatens to deepen Asia private equity’s worst fundraising slump in a decade
Blackstone Group’s logo on display during the opening of the company’s new office in Singapore. Munshi Ahmed | Bloomberg | Getty Images Since the pandemic, private equity funds focused on Asia have struggled to raise money, as the industry sat on massive unsold assets and idle dry powder. Signs of growing confidence began to emerge […]
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Private credit cracks open door for Wall Street banks’ comeback: ‘The tug of war is just starting’
Wall Street, Manhattan, New York. Andrey Denisyuk | Moment | Getty Images Wall Street banks may finally be getting a long-awaited opening to claw back market share from private credit lenders. After a decade in which private credit lenders grew rapidly and took over a large share of financing for leveraged buyouts, signs of strain […]
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Private credit’s ‘zero-loss fantasy’ is coming to an end as defaults and fund exits rise
Deteriorating asset quality, collateral markdowns and a growing rush for the exits are rattling private credit markets and prompting comparisons to the Global Financial Crisis. But a spike in loan defaults, while painful, could help shake out pockets of stress from the $3 trillion sector and provide what one industry pro calls a “healthy reset” […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Netgear, Jefferies Financial, Apollo Global & more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Netgear — The San Jose, Calif.-based maker of WiFi routers and network switches surged 11% after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned all imports of consumer routers made abroad, saying they pose national security risks. Jefferies Financial Group — Shares of the investment bank rallied nearly […]
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Moody’s cuts rating on private credit fund run by KKR and Future Standard to junk as bad loans grow
Key Points Moody’s Ratings downgraded a private credit fund run by KKR and Future Standard to junk amid rising bad loans and a string of weak earnings. The ratings firm lowered the debt ratings of FS KKR Capital Corp one notch to Ba1 from Baa3 — pushing it into “junk” territory. Moody’s said the fund’s […]
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