Viewsroom: Coal bust, Bank earnings, Millennial media
Peabody Energy’s bankruptcy gives Big Oil a glimpse into the future, while energy losses are just one issue U.S. lenders have to contend with. Plus: startup news outlets face age-old problems.
Corporate America could price bigotry beyond reach
Opposition to anti-LGBT state laws is growing: PayPal nixed a new North Carolina office; Apple, Google and Facebook won’t invest more in the state. Rocker Bryan Adams refuses to play in Mississippi….
MetLife’s SIFI label doomed by D.C. double-talk
A U.S. judge tossed the insurer’s designation as a systemically important financial institution because a regulator couldn’t keep its story straight. FSOC said it both had and hadn’t changed its…
Viewsroom: M&A overdose, Panama papers, Disney demise
The Pfizer-Allergan deal comes to a screeching halt, while a document dump exposes the elite’s offshore tax finagling. Plus: An heir apparent loses the keys to the Magic Kingdom.
Viewsroom: Pandora putsch, MetLife slam, M&A scam
The music-streaming service picks a golden-oldie CEO, while the mega-insurer sheds its too-big-to-fail tag. Plus: Even Wall Street pros can fall prey to determined swindlers.
Viewsroom: Valeant spiral, Chinese tourists, top-court pick
The funky pharma firm is coming to grips with mortality, while China’s Anbang gobbles up U.S. hotels at high prices. Plus: Corporate America gets a Supreme Court nominee it can live with.
Viewsroom: Sexist boards, fintech flaws, Gutfreund farewell
Gender quotas for directors don’t work, a new study finds. And who’s policing high-tech lenders and payments firms? Plus: the late Solomon Brothers boss changed Wall Street forever.
U.S. anti-gun rulings put freer markets in sight
Courts have upheld assault-weapons bans, adding heft to a Connecticut suit that tests laws shielding firearms firms from liability. The case is still a stretch, but growing assent to gun-rights…
Viewsroom: Wall Street frenemies, Ackman, AT&T
Trump and Hillary Clinton bash banks while taking their money, and the controversial investor sticks it out at Valeant and Herbalife. Plus: aging telecoms shake up cable TV.
Fed follies, Dish dish, Scalia scraps
The Minnesota Fed boss shocked colleagues with a call to break up the banks, and the satellite TV firm has left investors confused. Plus: How the Supreme Court justice’s death affects Corporate…
Argentina’s Macri puts money where his mouth is
The president offered holdout creditors a 25 pct discount on $9 bln of defaulted debt. Two agreed. Hedge fund Elliott is holding out; Argentina’s Congress and a U.S. judge must OK any deal. But a…
Bookstores back, Redstone out, Zika lurks
Internet-retailer Amazon embraces bricks and mortar, while the soap opera around Viacom’s aged founder continues. Plus, panic over the dangerous virus is Brazil’s Achilles heel.
Facebook, Twitter and Apple
The social media giant rode mobile ads to riches, while Jack Dorsey’s company watched bosses head for the exits. And Apple may be stuck in iPhone purgatory. All on the Viewsroom tech edition.
Breakingviews predicts a rock’n’roll 2016
For some economies and businesses, the year could be a stairway to heaven. For others, it may turn into a highway to hell. From the U.S. election to Britain’s possible exit from the EU, upheaval at…
Argentina and Elliott give peace a chance in 2016
There may never be a better time for Latin America’s No. 3 economy and the hedge fund to end a 14-year spat over defaulted bonds. New President Macri needs access to global debt markets; another…
Wall Street is finally getting clarity on the law
A U.S. court reversed an ex-Jefferies trader’s fraud conviction, saying his fibs may not have swayed investors. The same court has smacked enforcers for stretching fuzzy rules to nail insider traders…
Late cycle M&A runs afoul of U.S. trustbusters
Enforcers stopped GE’s sale of its ovens business to Electrolux, put the lid on a canned tuna union and may yet erase Office Depot’s sale to Staples. Some health insurance mergers may be at risk,…
Bankers catch a crumb in critical conflicts case
Delaware’s top court chided RBC in its upholding of a $76 mln penalty against the firm for working both sides of a deal. In a footnote, though, the tribunal toned down a lower court’s notion that…
VW victims eclipsed by firms that bet on lawsuits
A firm backed by hedge fund Elliott is bankrolling a case claiming the carmaker duped shareholders. There are other customer and investor actions, too. The financial muscle makes huge awards more…
Congress’ insider traders finally out of excuses
A U.S. judge has ordered lawmakers to cough up evidence about a dodgy tip, ending more than a year of stonewalling and bogus claims of immunity. With Capitol Hill contemplating an even stronger ban…
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