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Breaking Up HSBC Wouldn’t Solve its Political Woes
HSBC, Europe’s most valuable bank, makes most of its money in Asia but is headquartered in the U.K. Now its largest shareholder, China’s Ping An Insurance, is pushing for strong measures to rectify this unwieldy arrangement—including a potential spinoff of the Asian business. HSBC is involved in a major restructuring effort to tilt its business …
Archegos Losses Top $10 Billion as UBS, Nomura Add to Damage
UBS, Switzerland’s biggest bank by assets, said it lost $774 million following Archegos’s implosion, a bigger hit than analysts expected, deepening the damage caused by the fund. Meantime, Japan’s Nomura, which flagged losses of around $2 billion last month, upped its total damage tally to $2.85 billion. This included a loss of 245.7 billion yen, …
Credit Suisse, Johnson & Johnson, Micron Technology: Stocks That Defined the Week
Credit Suisse Group AG A fire sale of stocks by a large U.S. investor burned Credit Suisse and Nomura Holdings Inc. The global investment banks said Monday that they could incur substantial losses after Bill Hwang’s firm Archegos Capital Management and its banks began liquidating huge positions in blue-chip companies. Large banks served as prime …
European luxury stocks blasted over virus worries as UBS hit by lowered guidance
European stocks slumped on Tuesday as worries over a spreading virus in China as well as weak guidance from Swiss banking giant UBS weighed. The Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP, -0.70% declined 0.75% …
These 2 stocks dominated S&P 500 returns in 2019 — and the decade
The story has been corrected to reflect the full list of top ten contributors to returns in the past decade and over the past 12 months. The two stocks that contributed the most to 2019’s total stock-market returns also hold that position for the entire decade. While it’s fun to look at …
SoftBank to Take Control of WeWork
SoftBank Group Corp. won approval from WeWork’s board to take control of the troubled co-working startup, in a deal that would hand co-founder Adam Neumann nearly $1.7 billion and sever most of his ties with the company. WeWork, in danger of running out of cash in the coming weeks, chose a rescue offer from SoftBank …
