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The embattled special-purpose acquisition company seeking to merge with former President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social has now lost most of its prior investment commitments, the latest issue for the years-old deal. Read the full article here

Zoe Liu wanted to study pipelines, but someone beat her to it. She pivoted. Instead of investigating the flow of natural gas between countries, she changed her focus to financial flows. This led back to her home country of China which invests the world’s largest stockpile of foreign currency. Who…

Large cryptocurrencies were mixed during morning trading on Wednesday, with Ripple XRPUSD, -0.72% seeing the biggest move, shedding 2.00% to 49 cents. Uniswap UNIUSD, -2.05% lead the increases with a 1.38% climb to $4.13. Three other currencies posted drops Wednesday. Polkadot DOTUSD, -1.13% fell 1.02% to $3.76, and Bitcoin BTCUSD,…

Key News Asian equities had a strong day as Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong outperformed, while India and Thailand were rare underperformers. We have previously stated that the Shanghai Composite’s level of 3,100 and the Shenzhen Composite level of 1,900 were lines in the sand for Chinese policymakers. Jawboning…

While Street Earnings overstate profits for the majority of S&P 500 companies, as shown in Street Earnings Overstated for 70% of S&P 500 in 2Q23, there are many S&P 500 companies whose Street Earnings are lower than their Core Earnings. This report shows: the frequency and magnitude of understated Street…

Private equity fund Apollo Global Management on Thursday said it had struck a deal to snap up struggling U.K. restaurant operator The Restaurant Group in a deal worth £701 million ($862 million). Apollo agreed to buy the company for 65 pence a share, marking a 34% premium on the Wagamama-owner’s…

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