Liz Hoffman
Wall Street Journal
Mountain View, CA, United States
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Big Cities Can’t Get Workers Back to the Office
Occupancy is especially low in cities like New York, where workers are the engine of local economies. Among the concerns are crime and commute times. → Read More
‘Woke, Inc.’ Author’s Startup to Take On BlackRock
Vivek Ramaswamy says he has raised $20 million to start a fund manager that would urge companies not to wade into hot-button social or environmental issues. → Read More
Convenience-Store Giants Couche-Tard, EG Group in Deal Talks
Two of the world’s biggest convenience-store chains are discussing a deal that would value British retailer EG Group at roughly $16 billion or more including debt, people familiar with the matter said. → Read More
The Shadow Crew Who Encouraged Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover
Behind the scenes, fellow billionaires and internet provocateurs bent the Tesla CEO’s ear. One of them had a very personal stake: Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey. → Read More
How Elon Musk Won Twitter
The social-media network was expected to reject the Tesla CEO’s offer, but its bankers called the bid fair and said the company could struggle to get there on its own. → Read More
Elon Musk Could Make a Tender Offer for Twitter. What Does That Mean?
A tender offer can be used in friendly deals, but its real value is to hostile bidders when the target company’s board won’t engage. → Read More
Goldman’s CEO Is Paying Himself Like a Private-Equity Chief
David Solomon and his top deputies will get a slice of profits from the bank’s private-investment funds. → Read More
Twitter Weighs Poison Pill to Prevent Musk From Increasing Stake Significantly
The Tesla chief executive’s $43 billion offer contains as many questions as answers. → Read More
Chinese Executives Sell at the Right Time, Avoiding Billions in Losses
Insiders at companies based in China but listed on a U.S. exchange avoided at least $10 billion in losses on trades made between 2016 and mid-2021 by selling stock ahead of significant price declines, researchers found. → Read More
How We Analyzed Wall Street Block Trades
Regulators are investigating whether investment banks tip off clients to coming insider sales. The Wall Street Journal examined 393 such trades to find out. → Read More
Big Stock Sales Are Supposed to Be Secret. The Numbers Indicate They Aren’t.
Federal investigators are probing the big business of block trading on Wall Street, and a WSJ investigation shows why: Select investors appear to be catching wind ahead of time. → Read More
Carson Block’s Latest Short Target Is a Columbia Law Professor
The investor is trying to discredit a legal expert whose research is helping guide a federal investigation of short sellers. → Read More
How the West Unplugged Russia From the World’s Financial Systems
In just one week, Western financial firms severed practically every artery of money between Russia and the rest of the globe. In some cases they went further than what sanctions required. → Read More
Wall Street Struggles to Chart 'Black Swan' Risk
Goldman Sachs puts slim odds on regime change in Moscow and even slimmer -- but not zero -- odds on nuclear war. In a call Monday with big clients, the firm said it assigned a 5% to 10% probability that the combined toll of foreign sanctions and military losses would force Russian President Vladimi → Read More
Healthcare Realty Trust Nears Deal With Healthcare Trust of America
The owner-operator of medical-office buildings around the country is in advanced talks to combine with a smaller rival in a deal that could create a company worth more than $10 billion. → Read More
Hertz Hands Keys to Ex-Goldman Sachs Executive After Wild Pandemic Ride
The rental-car operator has tapped Stephen Scherr to succeed interim chief Mark Fields, with the banking executive taking over a company that has had a wild ride in the pandemic economy. → Read More
Bill Ackman Scored on Pandemic Shutdown and Bounceback
Over the past couple of years, the hedge-fund manager made two complex trades, one presaging the economy’s swift shutdown and the other its fevered reopening. His investments netted him nearly $4 billion in profit. → Read More
Wall Street Titans Support One of Their Own, David McCormick, in Senate Bid
Stephen Schwarzman and Ken Griffin are among those hosting a March fundraiser for the former Bridgewater CEO. → Read More
Jimmy Cayne, Who Led Bear Stearns Before It Imploded, Dies at 87
Jimmy Cayne became a poster child for financial mismanagement when the investment firm he had run since 1993 as Wall Street’s longest-serving CEO, toppled under a heavy debt load and trading losses. → Read More
DWAC, the Trump Social-Media SPAC, Surges: What to Know
The firm is promoting itself as having a large market opportunity in presenting an alternative to what it views as the liberal-minded media establishment. → Read More