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A Georgia grand jury indicted a teenage boy and his father on dozens of charges, including murder, in connection with a mass shooting last month that killed four people at Apalachee High School, officials said Thursday. His father, Colin Gray, was indicted on 29 counts, including second-degree murder, second-degree cruelty to children, involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct, according to records from the Barrow County District Attorney's Office. Colin Gray at Barrow County courthouse, in Winder, Ga., on Sept. 6, 2024. Colin Gray is being held in the Barrow County jail and his son is being held in a juvenile detention center in Gainesville. Barrow County District Attorney Brad Smith said last month Colin Gray's charges marked the first time in state history a parent of a suspected school shooter was charged.

Persons: Colt Gray, Colin Gray, Brynn Anderson, Gray, Brad Smith, Colin Gray's, Mason Schermerhorn, Christian Angulo, Richard Aspinwall, Cristina Irimie Organizations: Apalachee High School, Attorney's Office, NBC Locations: Georgia, Barrow County, Winder , Georgia, Winder , Ga, Barrow, Gainesville

The man whose teen son is accused of killing four people at a Georgia high school asked a judge on Wednesday for protection from fellow inmates due to the “incalculable number of threats” he faces behind bars. Gray needs to be separated from other inmates being held by the Barrow County Sheriff's Office, his lawyers Jimmy Berry and Brian Hobbs wrote. Last week's shooting has impacted almost everyone in the city of Winder and greater Barrow County, defense lawyers said. “In fact, so many lives in the community of Barrow County have been touched in unfathomable ways, it would be reckless to assume there are NO inmates, either currently or in the near future, being housed in the Barrow County Detention, who wish to harm the Defendant." A representative for the Barrow County Sheriff's Office could not be immediately reached for comment on Thursday.

Persons: Colin Gray, Colt Gray, Gray, Jimmy Berry, Brian Hobbs, ”, “ Organizations: Apalachee High School, Office, Detention, Court Locations: Georgia, Barrow, Winder, Barrow County

☆ Blackstone says the real-estate market is bottoming. Here are 7 ways it's getting ahead of the situation.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Alex Nicoll | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. We found the firm has been spending on distressed real estate, such as its purchase of loans from the FDIC after the failure of Signature Bank, as well as investments in buzzy real estate, like data centers. In a January earnings call, Blackstone president Jonathan Gray announced that commercial real estate, which recently suffered its biggest price declines in half a century, could soon hit bottom. "While it will take time, we can see the pillars of a real estate recovery coming into place." Here are the 7 recent real estate and real-estate-adjacent deals that show how Blackstone is trying to get ahead of the CRE bottom in chronological order.

Persons: Jon Gray, Blackstone, Gray, Jonathan Gray Organizations: Business, Signature Bank

☆ How a romance scammer defrauded 3 Tinder dates out of over $100,000
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementThe victims of a romance scammer who defrauded women he met on Tinder out of over $100,000 have spoken out about being targeted. Peter Gray, 35, from Yorkshire, UK, found his victims on Tinder and won their trust, BBC News reported. Romance scams have boomed since the onset of the pandemic, with Americans losing over $1.3 billion to the practice in 2022, up 164% from 2019, Business Insider previously reported. In the UK, over £92 million (about $115 million) was lost to romance scams in the same year, according to data from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau. AdvertisementGray used information from driving licenses to scam Tinder dates"It was shocking," a sister of one of Gray's victims told BBC News.

Persons: Peter Gray, —, Gray, Jessica, Hannah, Elizabeth, Tinder Organizations: Service, BBC News, Business, Federal Trade Commission, National Fraud Intelligence, BBC Locations: Yorkshire

☆ My husband took me for a joyride on his plane during our first date. I was a widow and scared to love again, but we got married within the year.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-06 | by ( Melissa Noble | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

She met Ted Gray, and on their first date, he took her on his plane. After Al died, I didn't date for a long timeA week after Al died, I was back full-time teaching. In 21 years, I had met no one, and suddenly I'd met this man, and I was frightened I might hurt him. When Al died, I never believed I could love like that again, but our love is wonderful. I love Ted just like I loved Al, and that blows me away.

Persons: Joy Gray's, Allan, Ted Gray, —, Joy Gray, Al, it's, I'd, Rick, Ali, they'd, Ted, Farmer, Port Phillip Bay, we've, I've Organizations: Service, Port Locations: Porepunkah, Australia, Melbourne, Port Phillip, New Guinea

☆ The AI Apocalypse: Computer Algorithms Are Already in Control
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Ed Zitron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

But increasingly, the algorithms that undergird our digital lives are making questionable decisions that enrich the powerful and wreck the lives of average people. There's no reason to be scared of AI making decisions for you in the future — computers have already been doing so for quite some time. As human control diminished, the real-world consequences of these algorithms have piled up: Instagram's algorithm has been linked to a mental-health crisis in teenage girls. AdvertisementAcross the public and private sectors, we've handed the keys to a spiderweb of algorithms built with little public insight into how they make their decisions. While generative AI is just the newest extension of the algorithm, it poses a unique threat.

Persons: who's, They've, Matthew Gray, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, It's, Elon Musk, Cambridge Analytica, algorithmically, ProPublica, Quora, OpenAI's ChatGPT, you've, they'll, superintelligence, — simulacrums Organizations: Knight Capital, Companies, Yahoo, Stanford, Google, Spotify, Netflix, Revenue, Facebook, Twitter, Elon, European Union, Associated Press, Black, Microsoft, Eating Disorders Association Locations: Cambridge

☆ How real estate's pain could be Wall Street's gain as Blackstone, Goldman, and others dive back in.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-19 | by ( Alex Nicoll | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

That's not to say predictions of a commercial real estate rebound are a sure bet. Here are four signs that support Gray's prediction that the commercial real estate market may be bottoming. (New York Community Bank had previously purchased $2.7 billion in Signature's loans and deposits, but not the real estate loans.) According to David Seifert, partner at private equity real estate firm Velocis, there are some sweet deals to be had in secondary sales of private-equity funds tied to real estate. The road aheadWhere Gray sees signs of bottoming, others think commercial real estate has much further to fall.

Persons: Warren Buffett, Buffett, Paul Getty, Getty, Steve Mnuchin —, Blackstone, Mnuchin, Donald Trump's, George Soros, John Paulson, It's, Jonathan Gray, Jim Garman, That's, Barry Sternlicht, Gray, Tracy Chen, Chen, BGO, secondaries There's, Ares, Brian King, King, David Seifert, Seifert, Velocis, Goldman Sachs, Dan McNamara, McNamara, Scott Rechler, wallop, Janet Yellen, Rechler, there's Organizations: Business, Goldman, Reuters, Starwood, Brandywine Global, Federal Reserve, . Bank, New York Community Bank, FDIC, Signature Bank, Community Bank, Fund Management, Community Preservation, New, Commercial Observer, Blackstone, Homes, Digital Realty, Polpo, RXR Locations: Blackstone, , New York, New York, BREIT, Real, Velocis

☆ 300 local TV news stations are teaming up to launch a streaming service to capture shifting audiences and ad dollars
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Gray Television is teaming up with other TV stations to launch a free, local-news streamer, and running Super Bowl ads starring John Stamos to get the word out. Perry's pitch to local stations is that Zeam removes the tech and ad barriers from the process of adapting to streaming. "It's a whole new way for stations to interact with their viewers and reach viewers in other markets," Perry said. At the same time, local TV ad revenue is shifting online. Digital is set to account for 10% of the $23.8 billion local TV ad pie in 2024, or $2.1 billion, per BIA Advisory Services .

Persons: John Stamos, Gray, Jack Perry, Zeam, what's, Perry, Kagan, Andrew Heyward, Syncbak, Perry wouldn't, Mike Braun, there's Organizations: Gray Television, National Association of Broadcasters, CBS, Hearst, Business, Services, CBS News, Netflix, VUit, Super Bowl, Google, Super, Sunday, Amazon, Apple Locations: Gray, Syncbak

☆ Color experts share 8 hues you should remove from your home this year
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Janice Costa | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Gray is drab and dreary. Gray lacks the warmth so many people desire. According to Amy Krane, architectural color consultant at Amy Krane Color , "People are leaning toward more colorful, complex color combinations now, which is one reason why the gray train has finally pulled out of the station." Interior designer and color expert Paula Kennedy of Timeless Kitchen Design LLC told BI the declining interest in gray may be due to an increased desire for warmer hues. Kennedy said gray's "many different undertones" can appear "drab and cold" and thinks the hue will continue to fall out of favor.

Persons: Gray, Amy Krane, Paula Kennedy, Kennedy, gray's

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A Canadian fishing boat rescued an American man one day after the U.S. Coast Guard ended its search for a missing commercial fishing boat from Washington state with two people board, authorities said. U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Steve Strohmaier said the Canada-based Ocean Sunset spotted a covered life raft drifting in open ocean about 75 kilometers (46 miles) off the west coast of Vancouver Island on Thursday. Strohmaier said the Ocean Sunset's crew found the man conscious on the raft, which was from the Evening fishing boat based in Gray's Harbor, Washington. The man was taken to shore by the Canadian Coast Guard and was reported in stable condition. Strohmaier said Coast Guard officials hoped to speak with the survivor soon to determine whether to renew the search.

Persons: Steve Strohmaier, Strohmaier Organizations: British Columbia, U.S . Coast Guard, . Coast Guard, Canadian Coast Guard, Coast Guard Locations: VANCOUVER, British, Canadian, Washington, Canada, Vancouver, Gray's Harbor , Washington, U.S, Gray’s Harbor

NEW YORK (AP) — Chelsea Gray is out at least for Game 4 of the WNBA Finals after suffering an injury to her left foot Sunday. The Las Vegas Aces star guard was wearing a boot on her foot and had it propped up on a scooter she used to get into practice Tuesday. I'm waiting for more information, it's not good,” said Gray, who was going to wait until she got back to Las Vegas for further evaluation. Las Vegas also will be missing forward Kiah Stokes, who had a boot on her right foot. Political Cartoons View All 1211 ImagesGame 4 is Wednesday night in New York and Las Vegas leads the best-of-five series 2-1.

Persons: — Chelsea Gray, it's, ”, Gray, Kiah Stokes, ” Stokes, “ There's, ” Gray, couldn't, “, Becky Hammon, Stokes, Sydney Colson, Cayla George, Candace Parker, Riquna Williams, hasn't, — Gray, A'ja Wilson, Jackie Young, Kelsey Plum, Dearica Hamby, Hamby, ” Hammon, ___ Organizations: WNBA, Las Vegas Aces, Las Vegas, Liberty, Aces, Sydney, Nevada Equal Rights Commission, Commission Locations: Las Vegas, Vegas, New York

☆ British businessman jailed for fake bomb plot in London's legal district
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Sam Tobin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Metropolitan Police/Handout via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - A British businessman at the centre of a money-laundering investigation was jailed on Friday for more than eight years for targeting two lawyers with fake bombs in the heart of London's legal district. Prosecutors said Nuttall orchestrated the plot with his driver Michael Sode, 59, and former soldier Michael Broddle, 47, who planted devices which were designed to look like genuine explosives. Broddle had previously conducted a six-month surveillance operation against Sutcliffe, Jeavons and their families, she said. Nuttall and Sode were both convicted of two counts of conspiracy to plant the devices and conspiracy to transfer criminal property, relating to payments made to Broddle. Broddle had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to plant the devices and two counts of possession of an explosive substance.

Persons: Jonathan Nuttall, Prosecutors, Nuttall, Michael Sode, Michael Broddle, Andrew Sutcliffe, Anne Jeavons, Broddle, Sutcliffe, Jeavons, –, Catherine Farrelly, Sode, Bailey, Simon Mayo, Farrelly, Sam Tobin, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: Metropolitan Police, Handout, REUTERS Acquire, Britain's, Crime Agency, NCA, Court, London's, Thomson Locations: Gray's, British, London, Bailey

☆ Pirates RHP Mitch Keller shuts down Nationals
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Field Level Media | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/20] Sep 14, 2023; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Mitch Keller (23) delivers a pitch against the Washington Nationals during the first inning at PNC Park. It was a matchup of first-time All-Stars on the mound, and Keller and Gray pitched accordingly. Keller got the better of Gray, thanks to the two home runs, but the Nationals gave Keller a little test in the first. Keller retired 13 batters in a row before Meneses walked with one out in the seventh -- the only walk allowed by Keller. Gray struck out Peguero before being lifted for Jordan Weems, who got a strikeout and a groundout.

Persons: Mitch Keller, Charles LeClaire, Jack Suwinski, Alfonso Rivas, Mitch Keller's, Keller, David Bednar, Josiah Gray, Gray, CJ Abrams, Lane Thomas, Liover Peguero's, Keibert Ruiz flied, Abrams, Joey Meneses, Suwinski, Gray's, Rivas, Meneses, Dominic Smith, Luis Garcia, Joshua Palacios, Thomas, Jordan Weems Organizations: Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Nationals, PNC, Pirates, Nationals, Washington, Pittsburgh, Thomson Locations: Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, USA

☆ A teen who lost his $12,000 bike while flying from Europe found it in an airport with an AirTag, but said neither United nor Brussels Airlines would help him retrieve it
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A 16-year-old cyclist located his bike using an Apple AirTag. However, using an Apple AirTag, the son quickly found his bike in the Brussels Airport, where Gray hopped on a connecting flight. Still, he told CNN, there was no movement on finding the bike — until he decided to reach out to Brussels Airport. AdvertisementAdvertisement"I just needed someone to care, and finally found someone who did," Barnett told CNN. Brussels Airlines did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.

Persons: Luke Barnett, Gray, Barnett, Ella Dollinschi, We've Organizations: Apple, Service, EF, Cycling team's, CNN, Europe —, Brussels Airport, — United, US Department of Transportation, That's, Brussels, Airport, United Airlines, Brussels Airlines Locations: Wall, Silicon, Europe, Brussels, Greenville , South Carolina, Greenville, Spartanburg, Vermont

☆ Lending startup Captain raised $107 million in the boom times. Now it's up for sale amid layoffs and a capital drought.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Melia Russell | Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Captain, a startup that aimed to quicken home repairs after natural disasters, is winding down. The Louisville-based company had previously raised $107 million across venture and debt equity. CartaMany early-stage startups such as Captain, which had raised $107 million across equity and debt capital, have struggled to raise new funding as a drought in venture capital spreads through Silicon Valley. Liabilities pile upThe company relies on debt financing to pay contractors upfront for materials, supplies, and labor costs. In his email, Gray said prospective buyers were aware of the outstanding liabilities and the sale price would be used to satisfy those liabilities, "with wages being the most paramount," he said.

Persons: Demetrius Gray, Gray, Captain, Red Swan, Pete Flint, Flint, PATRICK T, FALLON, Talent, Melia Russell, Rob Price Organizations: quicken, Carta, TechCrunch, GGV, fintech, Munich Re, San Francisco Superior Court Locations: The Louisville, Silicon Valley, Carta, Louisville , Kentucky, NFX, CoVenture, Munich, Maui

A partial view of the Lalibela town in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia, January 25, 2022. In that war, federal forces faced battle-hardened fighters loyal to Tigray's ruling party, who at one point advanced hundreds of kilometres towards the capital Addis Ababa. Following the Tigray deal, his government held preliminary talks with rebels in the Oromiya region, Ethiopia's largest, about ending a decades-long insurgency. But anger was building in Amhara, where the Tigray deal deepened existing suspicions of Abiy's government. It said the status of lands claimed by both Amhara and Tigray, which Amhara forces captured during the war, should be resolved "in accordance with the constitution".

Persons: Abiy, Tewodrose Tirfe, Temesgen, Ethiopia's, Fano, Addisu Lashitew, Befekadu Hailu, Aaron Ross, Angus MacSwan Organizations: REUTERS, Tiksa, Fano, Amhara Association of America, Brookings Institution, Protesters, Thomson Locations: Amhara Region, Ethiopia, NAIROBI, Tigray, Amhara, Fano, Africa, Eritrea, Sudan, Addis Ababa, Oromiya

☆ Getting an entry-level job at Blackstone is harder than getting into Harvard, says Steve Schwarzman. Here's how to ace an interview and land a job there.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Casey Sullivan | Reed Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Getting a job at private equity giant Blackstone is getting more competitive. In 2020, Insider spoke with president Jon Gray to learn how to stand out and land a job Blackstone. The billionaire that built Blackstone doubts he'd land a job at the private equity titan today. "Getting an entry-level job at Blackstone is 12 times harder than getting into Harvard. So how exactly do applicants dead-set on working for the firm land one of its highly-prized entry-level gigs?

Persons: Jon Gray, Blackstone, Stephen Schwarzman, That's, I'd, Schwarzman, —, Gray, Blackstone's cofounders, Pete Peterson, couldn't, Here's Organizations: Blackstone, Morning, Wall Street, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Wall Locations: New York, Chicago

☆ Hunger haunts Ethiopia's Tigray region after years of war
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Dawit Endeshaw | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

MEKELLE, Ethiopia, July 10 (Reuters) - Curled up on a hospital bed in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, an emaciated little girl struggles to breathe, as her father softly strokes her gaunt face and her mother sits crying. Her doctor says she is dying, a new victim of an acute food shortage in a region blighted by two years of war and struggling with drought. [1/9]Woldegebrial Abadi, 36, holds the hands of his severely malnourished newborn son Berhanu Woldegebrial at the Samre Hospital, in Samre, Tigray Region, Ethiopia, June 23, 2023. REUTERS/Tiksa NegeriAid flows to Tigray resumed after the November ceasefire but were temporarily halted earlier this year. The Ethiopian government spokesperson did not respond to a Reuters request for comment on rising levels of hunger in the Tigray region or the resumption of aid flows to the area.

Persons: gaunt, Tsige Shishay, Teklay Hagos, Mekelle, Abadi, Berhanu Woldegebrial, Gebrehiwot, Getachew Reda, Gebremiskel, Woldesilassie Gebremedhin, gesturing, Giulia Paravicini, Estelle Shirbon, Edmund Blair Organizations: Reuters, Food Programme, Samre, REUTERS, Tiksa, WFP, U.S . Agency for International Development, USAID, Disaster Risk Management, Ethiopian, Twitter, Tiksa Negeri, Thomson Locations: MEKELLE, Ethiopia, Ethiopia's, Tigray, Tigray's, Samre, Tigray Region, Tiksa Negeri, Mekelle, Nairobi

☆ Many culprits stole food aid in north Ethiopia, investigation finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Giulia Paravicini | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NAIROBI, June 15 (Reuters) - Regional and federal government officials as well as Eritrean soldiers were involved in the theft of food aid in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region, the head of an investigation by the Tigrayan authorities said on Thursday. The U.N. World Food Programme and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) paused food distribution last month in war-scarred Tigray because they said significant amounts of aid had been stolen. The two agencies then suspended food aid across all of Ethiopia last week for the same reason. An internal humanitarian memo said USAID believes food has been diverted to Ethiopian military units as part of a scheme orchestrated by federal and regional government entities. Ethiopia's army has denied its forces benefited from any stolen food aid.

Persons: General Fiseha Kidanu, Tigrai, Giulia Paravicini, Aaron Ross, Alex Richardson Organizations: Food, U.S . Agency for International Development, USAID, Ethiopian, WFP, Thomson Locations: NAIROBI, Ethiopia's Tigray, Tigray, Ethiopia

☆ From Wall Street to Washington: Which finance execs would make the best public servants?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

There has long been speculation that America's most-famous banker has plans to run for some sort of public office. The path from Wall Street to Washington is well worn, with plenty of high-profile executives taking up positions in the government. When most Wall Street executives were still afraid of the public cloud, she was ready to embrace it with open arms. Jon Gray — Treasury SecretaryBlackstone's president and chief operating officer has already had a brush with public office. The idea of him holding public office doesn't seem far-fetched.

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☆ WFP suspends food aid to Ethiopia's Tigray over reported thefts
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Dawit Endeshaw | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Summary WFP, USAID suspend aid distributionTigray government urges rethink, says to investigateNAIROBI, May 4 (Reuters) - The U.N. World Food Programme has paused food distribution in Ethiopia's war-ravaged Tigray region in response to reports that significant amounts of aid were being diverted, the agency said. Neither organisation gave details of the source of the reports and the WFP did not say who was responsible for the diversions or when they had taken place. He said he had set up a task force to investigate, calling the reported theft a crime against children, the elderly and the disabled. A spokesperson for Ethiopia's federal government did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The government and Tigray forces agreed to end hostilities in November, which has allowed additional aid to reach the region and for some services to be restored.

☆ Consumers are ‘retrenching.’ What that means for recession fears
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Alicia Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But for consumers, the lengthy spell in the crossfire of persistently high prices and rising interest rates has taken its toll. Inflation-adjusted consumer spending was flat in March, marking the fourth time in five months that expenditures held steady or declined. “Further deterioration in the job market — the last remaining leg propping up the consumer — is bound to accelerate the downshift in consumer spending in the coming months. Private label growth is one of six indicators that Allison tracks to determine a consumer recession. “If you ask the economists, ‘Are we in a recession?’ they’re going to say ‘No, we’re not in a recession,’” he said.

☆ John Blake: The story about race I didn't know how to tell
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( John Blake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

John Blake, seen here in a second-grade photo, grew up as the son of a White mother and Black father. What I didn’t know was that my community had died long before the Freddie Gray protests. That’s the story I wanted to tell, but I didn’t know how. I didn’t know how to tell Harlow any of that because my story doesn’t fit traditional narratives about race or identity. My white family members didn’t change because I shamed them with an impressive lecture on systemic racism.

☆ MLB roundup: Astros drop Rays to 14-1 at home
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +13 min

Andrew McCutchen hit a three-run homer, Ke'Bryan Hayes a two-run double and Carlos Santana and Austin Hedges an RBI single apiece for the Pirates. Texas built a six-run lead before Nick Senzel put Cincinnati on the scoreboard with an RBI single in the seventh inning. Ruiz's homer and Joey Meneses' RBI single in the third against Jose Butto (0-1) provided an early cushion for Gray. The Brewers got single runs in the third and fourth, then pulled within 4-3 when Rowdy Tellez opened the sixth with his eighth homer. With two outs during Chicago's four-run eighth, Gomes lined an RBI single to right field for his fifth career four-hit game.

☆ Blackstone is in talks to help regional banks with lending
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

NEW YORK, April 20 (Reuters) - Blackstone Inc (BX.N), the biggest manager of private equity and real estate assets, said on Thursday it was discussing partnerships with U.S. regional banks to help them with constraints in areas such as car loans and home improvement financing. "As regional banks experienced outflows of deposits, we are seeing real-time opportunities to partner with them at scale," Blackstone President Jonathan Gray said on the firm's first-quarter earnings call. "The regional banks generally play a very large role in home improvement loans, auto loans and equipment finance. He did not identify the banks Blackstone is speaking to. The firm has shifted its focus in real estate to resilient sectors such as logistics and rental housing.

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