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Exclusive: Business Payments Firm Billtrust Up For Sale - Sources
BTRS Holdings Inc, the owner of business payments vendor Billtrust, is exploring options that include a potential sale, according to people familiar with the matter.
Jul 27, 2022
Guggenheim Lures Oil And Gas Bankers From Citigroup -sources
Guggenheim Securities has hired three investment bankers from Citigroup Inc's oil and gas team, people familiar with the matter said, as competition for talent in the sector intensifies amid a surge in energy prices that favors dealmaking.
Jul 22, 2022
Wall Street Ends Little Changed After Jobs Data Feeds Rate Hike Debate
Wall Street closed little changed on Friday after a volatile session as investors tried to comprehend how a robust jobs report would influence the Federal Reserve and its plans to aggressively hike interest rates.
Jul 08, 2022
Wall Street Gyrates To Muted Close As Investors Weigh Jobs Data In Rate Debate
Wall Street ended little changed on Friday after a volatile session in which investors tried to comprehend how a robust jobs report would influence the U.S.
Jul 08, 2022
S&P, Nasdaq Rise For Fourth Straight Day As Rate-hike Fears Ease
Wall Street benchmarks ended up on Thursday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq recording their fourth successive higher closes, as traders leaned in to U.S.
Jul 07, 2022
S&P, Nasdaq End Higher As July Hot Streak Continues
Wall Street benchmarks ended up on Thursday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq recording their fourth successive higher closes, as traders leaned in to U.S.
Jul 07, 2022
Wall Street Ends Up As Investors Absorb Fed Minutes
Wall Street put a seesaw day behind it to close higher on Wednesday, as investors digested new clues on the U.S.
Jul 06, 2022
Wall Street Closes Higher As Investors Absorb Fed Minutes
Wall Street ended higher on Wednesday as investors absorbed the minutes from the latest Federal Reserve meeting, which offered new clues on the central bank's rate policy and inflation fight.
Jul 06, 2022
Wall Street Dips After Fed Minutes Published
U.S. stock indexes dipped on Wednesday after edging briefly higher in the wake of the publication of the minutes from the latest Federal Reserve meeting, which investors had been waiting on for clues on the central bank's rate policy and inflation fight.
Jul 06, 2022
RedBird Backing Raymond James Exec For Asset, Wealth Manager Venture -sources
RedBird Capital Partners is partnering with an outgoing executive from Raymond James Financial Group to establish a new asset and wealth management platform, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
Jun 22, 2022
Hedge Fund Elliott Chases Oil And Gas Deals, Bucking Wall Street
Energy bankers who lost one client after another when poor returns pushed many investment firms out of the U.S. oil patch got a welcome email earlier this year.
May 25, 2022
Wall Street Slumps As Investors Fear Bigger Fed Rate Hikes
U.S. stocks closed Thursday sharply lower as investor sentiment cratered in the face of concerns that the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike would not be enough to tame surging inflation.
May 05, 2022
Wall Street Tumbles As Investors Fret Over Bigger Fed Rate Hikes
U.S. stocks ended Thursday sharply lower amid a broad sell-off, as investor sentiment cratered in the face of concerns that the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike the previous day would not be enough to tame surging inflation.
May 05, 2022
Wall Street Up Before Fed Meet As Tech Buying Punctuates Volatile Trade
Wall Street's main indexes closed a seesaw session higher on Monday, as investors bought in to technology names in the last hour of trading amid bets they had been overly beaten down ahead of this week's Federal Reserve meeting.
May 02, 2022
Wall St Slumps As Weak Earnings, Rate Hike Clarity Spook Investors
Wall Street tumbled more than 2.5% on Friday, ensuring the three main benchmarks ended in negative territory for the week, as surprise earnings news and increased certainty around aggressive near-term interest rate rises took its toll on investors.
Apr 22, 2022
Wall St Tumbles As Investors Fret On Weak Earnings, Rate Hikes
Wall Street slumped to a lower close on Friday, ending a whipsaw week of surprise earnings news and increased certainty around aggressive near-term interest rate rises, which also pushed them into negative territory for the week.
Apr 22, 2022
Wall St Drops As Powell Rate Views Support Aggressive Hike Path
Wall Street's three main indexes closed lower on Thursday, giving up earlier gains as Federal Reserve officials including Chair Jerome Powell offered further signposting of aggressive interest rate hikes this year.
Apr 21, 2022
Wall St Ends Down As Powell Plops 50 Bps Rate Hike On Table
Wall Street's ended lower on Thursday, with the Nasdaq dropping more than 2%, as investors reacted to Federal Reserve officials including Chair Jerome Powell offering further signposting of aggressive interest rate hikes this year.
Apr 21, 2022
Wall St Ends Topsy-turvy Day Lower As Investors Await Earnings
U.S. stocks closed down on Monday after flip-flopping throughout afternoon trading, as investors contrasted Bank of America's positive earnings with surging bond yields ahead of further earnings cues this week.
Apr 18, 2022
Wall St Ends Lower As Investors Await Further Earnings Cues
U.S. stocks closed lower on Monday after a session which saw all three benchmarks slip between positive and negative territory, as investors contrasted Bank of America's positive earnings with surging bond yields ahead of further earnings cues this week.
Apr 18, 2022
U.S. Oil 'Mini-majors' Emerge From Shale Patch Deals, Soaring Energy Prices
A group of oil and gas "mini-majors" are emerging among U.S.
Mar 15, 2022
U.S. Shale Oil And Gas Producers Oasis And Whiting In Talks To Merge - Source
U.S. shale oil and gas producers Oasis Petroleum Inc and Whiting Petroleum Corp are close to agreeing an all-stock merger that could be announced as soon as this week, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
Mar 06, 2022
Exclusive-Quantum Energy Offers $2.25 Billion Debt Fund With Fossil Fuel Opt-out -sources
Quantum Energy Partners is raising a $2.25 billion fund that will lend to U.S.
Feb 24, 2022
MetLife Explores Sale Of Variable Annuity Business - Sources
MetLife Inc is exploring the divestment of its U.S.
Feb 11, 2022
Exxon Explores Sale Of US Gulf Of Mexico Assets: Report
Exxon Mobil Corp is exploring the sale of many of its U.S. Gulf of Mexico assets, as higher prices prompt the world's largest publicly traded oil company to review its portfolio, people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
Oct 02, 2018
Canada's Husky Energy Offers To Buy MEG Energy In $5 Billion Deal
Canadian oil and gas producer Husky Energy Inc said on Sunday it has made an unsolicited bid to acquire rival MEG Energy Corp in a deal valued at C$6.4 billion ($5 billion) including debt.
Oct 01, 2018
US Energy Firms Chasing Oil Price Rally Stumble On Old Baggage
An informal poll of five investment bankers by Reuters put the share of sales that failed to close in the fourth quarter of 2017 and the first quarter of this year at between 50 percent and 80 percent.
Jun 14, 2018
