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☆ Fanatics valuation hits $31 billion after $700 million investment round
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Jessica Golden | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Michael Rubin's sports platform company Fanatics has raised $700 million in fresh capital, pushing its value to $31 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. In March, the company raised $1.5 billion led by Fidelity and Blackrock and Michael Dell's MSD Partners. This summer, Fanatics ventured deeper into collegiate sports, signing a long-term deal with Nike to manufacture college sports fan apparel. Rubin now has his eyes on the sports gaming market. Revenue for Fanatics, including its Lids segment, will be approximately $8 billion in 2023, according to company estimates.

☆ Biotech Company Says Citadel, Other Big Traders Manipulated Its Stock Price
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Justin Baer | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In the modern stock market, high-speed trading firms like Citadel provide stock quotes throughout the day. A biotechnology company accused Citadel Securities LLC, Susquehanna International Group LLP and other Wall Street firms of driving down its stock price through a series of illicit trades. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Manhattan federal court, Northwest Biotherapeutics Inc. alleged the market makers had repeatedly engaged in “spoofing,” where traders place orders with an intent to fool other investors about a stock’s demand and manipulate the price.

☆ Biotech Company Says Citadel Securities, Other Big Traders Manipulated Its Stock Price
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Justin Baer | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In the modern stock market, high-speed trading firms such as Citadel Securities provide stock quotes throughout the day. A biotechnology company accused Citadel Securities LLC, Susquehanna International Group LLP and other Wall Street firms of driving down its stock price through a series of illicit trading tactics. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Manhattan federal court, Northwest Biotherapeutics Inc. alleged the market makers had repeatedly engaged in “spoofing,“ where traders place orders with an intent to fool other investors about a stock’s demand and manipulate the price.

☆ Morgan Stanley making 'modest' job cuts, CEO says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] James Gorman, Chairman and Chief Executive of Morgan Stanley, speaks during the Global Financial Leaders Investment Summit in Hong Kong, China November 2, 2022. REUTERS/Tyrone SiuNEW YORK, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley (MS.N) is making modest job cuts across the globe, Chief Executive Officer James Gorman said in an interview during the Reuters NEXT conference, as Wall Street comes under pressure with dealmaking slowing down due to the central bank's monetary tightening. "We're making some modest cuts all over the globe. That has put pressure on investment banks like Morgan Stanley, which earned billions of dollars in advisory fees amid unfettered market optimism last year. Other Wall Street firms, including investment banking powerhouse Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) and major lender Citigroup Inc , have also cut jobs this year.

Companies Us Justice Department FollowWASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is considering new guidance for corporations on employees' use of messaging applications and personal devices, as widespread use can thwart compliance and investigations. Currently, the Justice Department considers whether companies that allow use of disappearing messaging apps are regularly examining their compliance on records retention. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) separately has been scrutinizing how Wall Street firms are handling work-related communications on personal devices and apps such as WhatsApp. The Justice Department is also considering whether it needs to offer more guidance on how prosecutors weigh a company's executive clawback policies in investigations into corporate misconduct, Argentieri said. The Justice Department under President Joe Biden has already detailed a number of policy changes aimed at more aggressive policing of corporate wrongdoing.

☆ Private equity is starting to bet big on the cloud. Here's why firms like Blackstone are making the move.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Like other Wall Street firms upended by the technology, PE firms' motivation to make the move is tied to harnessing the copious amounts of data they manage. GFT works with more than 20 private-equity firms for digital transformation, including a handful of tier-one PE companies, he said. Some PE firms have tried to leverage their scale for pricing discounts among cloud providers, Mahenthiran said. Major cloud providers, like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, have been hungry for more Wall Street market share. That hasn't stopped PE firms from trying to hire out data-science and cloud teams to help front-office researchers find new opportunities and oversee internal cloud infrastructure, Vyas said.

☆ Public-cloud providers are reimagining themselves as consultants. Here's how AWS, Azure and Google Cloud are helping finance firms use the tech to rethink their business.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In turn, public-cloud providers are reimagining themselves as business consultants. Wall Street firms are embracing the cloud for everything from research to risk and marketing. Cloud providers are building teams to interface with execsFinancial firms making the jump to the cloud are thinking beyond their IT divisions. Some of the largest Wall Street shops are taking the opportunity to rethink how they run their businesses entirely. Wall Street uses cloud to hit the reset buttonSelipsky's comments ring true on Wall Street, where cloud projects can have firm-wide ripple effects.

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Apple, Manchester United, Activision Blizzard and more
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Microsoft logo is seen on a smartphone placed on displayed Activision Blizzard logo in this illustration taken January 18, 2022. Apple — Apple's stock shed 2% on Friday after protests occurred at the iPhone maker's major Foxconn supplier in China earlier this week. Activision Blizzard – Shares of the video game company slid more than 4% after Politico reported the Federal Trade Commission is likely to sue to block Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Manchester United — Manchester United's stock surged 12.8%, building on this week's earlier gains following news that the soccer team's owners are weighing a potential sale. Canoo – The electric vehicle company's stock price traded 4.6% higher after a Securities and Exchange Commission filing revealed that CEO Tony Aquila purchased shares.

☆ Wall Street's trust issues with crypto won't be easily repaired in the wake of the FTX blowup
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Trust in the crypto industry — be it with Wall Street firms, politicians, venture capitalists, or the general public — is destroyed thanks to FTX's downfall. It's a bitter pill to swallow when one considers the hard-fought progress crypto had made on Wall Street in recent years. canvassed more than a dozen Wall Street insiders to get a sense of where traditional firms stand on their crypto plans. Meanwhile, firms hoping to bridge the gap between Wall Street and crypto have been put in an impossible spot, answering for another's sins. Click here to read more on how Wall Street is moving forward with its crypto plans in the wake of FTX.

☆ Insiders detail how Wall Street is preparing for a post-FTX world, from heightened scrutiny on crypto deals to rethinking hiring plans
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Morgan Chittum | Bianca Chan | Carter Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Most Wall Street firms have executed big crypto and blockchain initiatives. The ties between Wall Street, Main Street, and digital assets have never been tighter. Some traditional firms have chosen crypto custodians to do that for them, while others offer it themselves. Fidelity also has its own digital assets custody offering, and reportedly had plans to continue building out its digital-asset team as recently as late October. 121, which requires most SEC registrants to record the fair value of custodied digital assets as a liability.

☆ Insana: The ‘7% solution’ on interest rates could come back to haunt the Federal Reserve
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Ron Insana | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A trader watches as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), November 2, 2022. Brendan McDermid | ReutersSt. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard suggested on Thursday that the central bank might have to raise short-term interest rates as high as 7% to ensure that inflation goes away. Once again, Bullard and other Fed officials say that the central bank cannot repeat the policy errors of the 1970s. Raising rates by up to three full percentage points from the Fed's current target range of 3.75% to 4% would ensure a very deep recession. That's the case whether its headline or core consumer prices or other measures of inflation more closely watched by the Fed.

☆ Wall Street finally has the leverage it's been wanting over Big Tech
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Matt Weinberger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Take one giant step back, and there's one group benefitting from all the tech carnage: Wall Street investors, who finally have leverage over Big Tech after years of having to swallow spending to excess. Wall Street is ready to slice and dice. The balance of power has shifted: With tech companies struggling on the public markets, Wall Street has more leverage than it's held in a long time. Read more about how Wall Street is taking the driver's seat in tech here. Their mutual interest is complicated by fights over licensing and costs, Insider reports here.

☆ Buy these 7 stocks now for reliable income as high inflation stays 'alive and well' in 2023, says the manager of a top-8% dividend-focused fund
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Here are seven dividend stocks to buy now that will provide income in any setting. On the other side of the valuation spectrum are energy stocks. "From a valuation standpoint, you can't get much cheaper than the energy sector comparing it to the rest of the S&P 500 sectors," Morey said. Energy names will be a strong bet if inflation persists in the coming year, as Morey suspects. 7 top dividend stocks to buy nowBelow are the seven dividend stocks that Morey is bullish on right now from among his sector preferences, along with the ticker, market capitalization, dividend yield, and investment thesis for each.

☆ Private equity is opening up to the public cloud, setting up a new battleground for AWS, Microsoft, and Google to win over Wall Street
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Like other Wall Street firms upended by the technology, PE firms' motivation to make the move is tied to harnessing the copious amounts of data they manage. GFT works with more than 20 private-equity firms for digital transformation, including a handful of tier-one PE companies, he said. Some PE firms have tried to leverage their scale for pricing discounts among cloud providers, Mahenthiran said. Major cloud providers, like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, have been hungry for more Wall Street market share. But the wait-and-see approach has put PE companies far behind their Wall Street peers.

☆ Wall Street's biggest banks say Amazon is still a screaming 'buy' despite its ugly earnings results. Here's why, and where they see future growth coming from.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The company's share price has dropped by more than 15% since then. Amazon's third-quarter earnings disappointed investors on Thursday, sending the company's stock into a tailspin. What's Wall Street saying? Outcry over grueling and unsafe working conditions from employees has not tipped the scale for shareholders or Wall Street analysts. His firm holds Amazon stock.

☆ Here's a round up of 8 price target changes we made in Club stocks post earnings
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Matthew J. Belvedere | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Here's a rundown of the price target changes we recently made in Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust, the portfolio we use for the CNBC Investing Club. However, we cut our price target to $140 per share from $160, acknowledging headwinds due to rising interest rates and lower earnings estimates. We lowered our price target for the Google parent to $130 per share from $160. Microsoft (MSFT): Despite our longer-term positive view, we reduced our price target to $300 per share from $375. We said Tuesday evening that Microsoft's fiscal second-quarter guidance will likely lead to downward earnings and price target revisions from analysts on Wall Street.

Race to Zero members agree to "phase out development, financing and facilitation of new unabated fossil fuel assets, including coal," in line with science-based scenarios. Environmental advocates are concerned that GFANZ members won't be held to that standard or others without their commitment to Race to Zero. The change comes amid tensions between GFANZ and Wall Street firms over how far they should go in their climate commitments. GFANZ said its affiliation with the United Nations will continue. United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell will join a group responsible for setting its strategy and priorities, and monitoring progress, GFANZ added.

☆ Premarket stocks: Big Tech can't save your investments
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

But disappointing earnings from Big Tech stocks have the tendency to turn the broader market south thanks to their immense market value. Beyond determining market sentiment, tech earnings also offer important clues about where the economy is heading. In particular, sales growth in the cloud business – one of the company’s biggest bright spots in recent years – was lower than analysts had hoped. Its fiscal second-quarter forecast came in short of Wall Street estimates, sending shares down 8% on Wednesday. A slowing economy, geopolitical chaos and heightened inflation have all worked to dry up the number of IPOs and mergers and acquisitions made on Wall Street.

NEW YORK, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Wall Street bonuses in 2022 are expected to fall 22% or more from last year's bumper payouts, according to a report from New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, as tough economic conditions choked off demand for deals. Across Wall Street, investment-banking fees plunged from their 2021 records as the markets for mergers, acquisitions and initial public offerings dried up. Wall Street firms have set aside 6.5% less for compensation in the first half of 2022 as pretax profits halved to $13.5 billion, DiNapoli said. Wall Street workers remain an important force in New York City, accounting for 16% of its economic activity. The comptroller's annual report on 2022 Wall Street bonuses will be released in March.

☆ Should you buy Netflix stock after the streaming giant's upbeat earnings report? 3 Wall Street analysts share their outlooks for the firm — and where they think its share price is headed next.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( William Edwards | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Shares of Netflix have been on tear since Tuesday evening when the streaming giant beat expectations in its third-quarter earnings report. Markets InsiderThe upbeat report came after the firm suffered two dismal earnings reports in the first half of the year. On Wednesday morning, Wall Street firms released their analyses of the stock, and updated their price targets for it. It reissued both its underweight rating on the stock and price target of $196, which is 27% downside from current levels. While acknowledging that adding subscribers in the US and Canada would be difficult, he said the firm could increase revenues through price hikes.

☆ A $14 billion NYC-based hedge fund is trying a different approach to getting people into the office— opening a suburban hub where its traders and managers live
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Alyson Velati | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Hedge fund Schonfeld has opened an office in Summit, New Jersey after surveying staff. $14 billion Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is taking a different route from other Wall Street firms to get their employees into the office and to attract talent in the long run. The family-office-turned-hedge fund has been on a growth tear since Ryan Tolkin took over as chief executive at the beginning of 2021. Schonfeld employees are typically in the office three days a week but this can vary across teams. "By accessing a broader talent pool, we will naturally continue to grow in each of these offices," Tolkin, who is also the firm's chief investment officer, told Insider.

☆ It’s been 35 years since the epic Black Monday crash. What have investors learned?
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Paul R. La Monica | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN Business spoke to Jon Hirtle, a broker at Goldman Sachs in 1987, to get his recollections about Black Monday. That’s led some Wall Street veterans to derisively refer to the NYSE as nothing more than a glorified TV studio. Goldman Sachs announced Tuesday that it is merging its trading and investment banking businesses into a single unit. CEO David Solomon said that the move is a “realignment” that will allow Goldman Sachs to better serve its customers. There are growing concerns on Wall Street (and Main Street) about an economic downturn.

☆ What Cramer is watching Tuesday — J&J beat, Salesforce gets an activist, stocks surge
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

What I am looking at Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022 Club holding Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) reports an impressive quarter. Activist investor Starboard takes a major stake in Club holding Salesforce (CRM), sees significant opportunity. Club holding Microsoft (MSFT) cuts people, continues to invest, but calls for slowest quarterly revenue growth in more than five years. Barclays cuts price target on Charles Schwab (SCHW) to $73 per share from $81. Barclays cuts price target on Unity Software (U) to $33 per share from $49.

☆ A 26-year market vet breaks down why investing legend Jeremy Grantham is correct to compare the current market to the 2000 and 2008 'superbubbles' — and warns stocks will fall another 20%
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( William Edwards | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

There's little reason for optimism in today's market, Lance Roberts laments. Just look at the barrage of headwinds facing stocks right now, the RIA Advisors CIO said in an October 10 commentary. At the start of this year, investing legend and founder of GMO Jeremy Grantham, said stocks were in their fourth superbubble in the last century given that market valuations had veered from historical norms so drastically. On Friday, Roberts told Insider that he agrees with Grantham's assessments, and that he sees the S&P 500 dropping to around 2,900. One of Wall Street's most bullish strategists this year, BMO's Brian Belski, cut his 2022 price target on the S&P 500 again on Friday to 4,200.

Typically, banks would sell the debt to investors and pocket an underwriting fee. Elon Musk vs TwitterThe debate, currently a topic of conversation among investment bankers and debt investors, provides a window into the havoc wreaked on Wall Street by Musk’s U-turn last week. Musk, however, conditioned his proposal on his ability to secure debt financing and now has until Oct. 28 to close on the transaction. VARIOUS OPTIONSThe debt financing package is comprised of leveraged loans, which are risky because of the amount of debt the company is taking on, as well as secured and unsecured bonds. In September, banks financing the Citrix buyout undertook a similar restructuring.

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