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...Companies in Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index spent $175bn buying back shares in the three months to June, according to preliminary data from S&P....
...One scoop to start: I’m Brooke Masters, the US Financial Editor, writing to you one more time before Harriet Agnew returns....
...The FTC is planning to appeal the Microsoft/Activision ruling but it is fighting many M&A wars....
...S&P 500 companies....
...Hello, I’m Emma Dunkley on the Asset Management team and I’m filling in for Harriet today....
...Lovelace points out that Capital has dabbled in the area: venture giant Sequoia was founded under its aegis in the 1970s....
...One thing to start: I’m Laurence Fletcher, the FT’s hedge fund correspondent....
...Investors need to ask more questions, writes the FT’s Brooke Masters....
...As the venture capitalist Bill Gurley put it last April: Previous “all-time” highs are completely irrelevant. It’s not “cheap” because it is down 70%. Forget those prices happened....
...Anyway, here are names and links — we’ll let you make your own mind up: Liquid 2 Venture Fund III L.P . . . . Lake Nona Fund / LN Sports & Health Tech Fund I, LP . . ....
...“I think the world of Larry Fink, but I’m not sure I want him to be my emperor.”...
...I’m less enamoured with the price and delivery date — around £1,000 and 2023....
...Moelis has promoted Anton Sahazizian to global head of M&A. He was previously head of US M&A at the bank....
...(Owen Walker) Deal Tracker M&A activity across the fintech sector continued to slow in June according to the latest research from S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...NYCA, a boutique fintech investment firm and US Venture Partners What’s the revenue model? We are a software as a service business. We charge banks a transactional fee....
...One thing to start: Sequoia Capital is not an asset manager in the traditional sense, but the group — considered by many to be Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firm — is certainly reshaping the landscape...
...brooke.masters@ft.com Follow Brooke Masters with myFT and on Twitter...
...Their refusal to accept venture capital funds has struck a chord with other start-ups....
...A few days after he formally resigned from First Boston, Fink invited a select group to his house to discuss the new venture....
...My colleague Brooke Masters also has an interesting piece on the shallow roots of many corporate diversity drives....
...“I’m feeling a lot of validation,” said Galileo Russell, who began buying the stock in 2016 and has seen a $35,000 investment swell to more than $250,000....
...S&P Global’s $44bn deal for IHS Markit illustrates how a handful of predominantly-US companies are beginning to tighten their grip....
...I mean, from the customers you're talking to, are they concerned that China Inc, as it were, has cornered the market for battery materials?...
...“Tesla’s bitcoin investment does not have an impact on its ESG score,” said S&P Global....
...We’ll be looking at how billionaires and other investors are making huge bets in sports ventures and covering the business like the fascinating asset class that it has become....
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