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• Business Oct 16, 2026 Goldman Posts Near-30% EPS Beat as Equities Surge; JPMorgan Misses for First Time in Three Years Goldman Sachs reported Q3 EPS of $17.01 on $18.68 billion in revenue, driven by a 72% jump in equities trading, while JPMorgan fell short of estimates for the first time in nearly three years as fixed-income trading and dealmaking softened.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Oct 13, 2026 Starbucks Kills Chipotle Takeover Speculation, Sending CMG Shares Down Nearly 4% Starbucks issued a flat denial Monday of a Financial Times report that it had been working with advisers on a bid for Chipotle, ending a week of deal rumor that briefly lifted the burrito chain's market cap by roughly $2.5 billion.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Oct 12, 2026 Delta Cuts Full-Year Profit Forecast as Fuel Surge Swamps Revenue Gains The airline missed Wall Street estimates for the first time in two years and slashed its 2026 EPS guidance by roughly $1.50 at the midpoint, blaming a $1.6 billion fuel-cost spike that ran $500 million above its own projections.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Oct 11, 2026 S&P 500 Heads Into Q3 Earnings Season With 29.5% Growth on the Tape FactSet's consensus puts index earnings growth above 25% for a third straight quarter, even as WTW data shows M&A acquirers keep underperforming the markets they're trying to beat.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Oct 10, 2026 SpaceX Pays $8 Billion for Grain Management Spectrum, Rattling Telecom Stocks The $8 billion purchase of a nationwide 800 MHz portfolio gives Starlink Mobile the low-band airwaves it needs to deliver indoor cellular coverage to standard smartphones, wiping out $36 billion in combined telecom market cap on the news.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Oct 8, 2026 McKesson and CD&R Take Option Care Health Private in $5.8 Billion Deal The all-cash buyout prices OPCH at $32.05 per share, a 37% premium, and hands CD&R a majority stake while McKesson pays roughly $1.4 billion for a path to full ownership later.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Oct 6, 2026 C.H. Robinson Buys Rival RXO for $5.8 Billion to Dominate North American Truck Brokerage The country's largest third-party logistics provider agreed Monday to acquire RXO in a cash-and-stock deal that would push the combined company's enterprise value past $25 billion.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Oct 5, 2026 Global M&A Falls Below $1 Trillion in Q3 as Borrowing Costs Rise Deal value dropped 41% from the prior quarter to $993 billion, the first sub-trillion quarter in five, even as year-to-date totals hit a 25-year high.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Oct 3, 2026 Onsemi Cuts Synaptics Deal to $5.7B All-Cash After Rival Bid A competing, unnamed suitor forced onsemi to restructure its Synaptics acquisition, dropping total consideration by roughly $1.3 billion and switching from stock to cash.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Oct 1, 2026 Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Clears Court, Sets Oct. 6 Close A federal judge approved a 12-state antitrust settlement on Sept. 30, lifting the last legal block on the $111 billion deal and triggering a same-day co-CEO announcement.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 30, 2026 Paramount Settles State Antitrust Suit, Clears Path for $110.9B Warner Bros. Discovery Deal A consent decree struck with 12 state attorneys general removes the last U.S. legal obstacle to the biggest media merger in years, though the combined entity will carry roughly $80 billion in debt.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 29, 2026 Priority Technology CEO Buys Out His Own Company for $1.6 Billion Thomas Priore's investor group will pay $8.05 per share to take payments processor Priority Technology Holdings private, ending nearly nine years on Nasdaq.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 28, 2026 Priority Technology CEO Leads $1.6 Billion Buyout to Take Payments Firm Private Thomas Priore's investor group agreed to pay $8.05 per share, a 65% premium to the stock's unaffected price, ending nearly nine years of public trading for Priority Technology Holdings.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 25, 2026 Priority Technology CEO Leads $1.6 Billion Go-Private Buyout Thomas Priore's investor group will pay $8.05 a share for the Nasdaq-listed payments company, a 65% premium to its unaffected price, with Searchlight Capital providing equity backing.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 24, 2026 Priority Technology CEO Agrees to Take Payments Firm Private at $1.6 Billion Thomas Priore's investor group will pay $8.05 a share for Priority Technology Holdings, a 65% premium to the stock's unaffected price, with Searchlight Capital Partners providing equity backing.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 21, 2026 Blackstone Acquires Data Center Cooling Supplier Flow Control Holdings Blackstone's Capital Partners and Energy Transition Partners funds struck a deal for FCH, a Cincinnati-based maker of liquid cooling components used by hyperscalers and AI chip OEMs; financial terms were not disclosed.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 20, 2026 Blackstone Acquires Flow Control Holdings to Expand Data Center Cooling Bet The private equity giant struck a deal for Cincinnati-based FCH, a supplier of liquid-cooling components to hyperscalers and OEMs, as AI-driven demand for high-density compute keeps climbing.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 19, 2026 Blackstone Buys Data Center Cooling Supplier Flow Control Holdings, Taps UBS for Financing The private equity giant is acquiring FCH from Audax in a deal expected to close in Q4, with UBS providing a first-lien term loan whose size wasn't disclosed.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 18, 2026 Independence Realty Trust Merges With Centerspace in $8.1 Billion All-Stock Deal The all-stock combination creates a multifamily REIT with more than 44,000 apartment units spread across the Sunbelt, Midwest, and Mountain West.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 17, 2026 NextEra Sweetens Dominion Offer to Win Virginia Regulators on $67 Billion Utility Deal The companies doubled bill credits and promised 1,000 new jobs in Virginia as opposition from the governor and consumer advocates threatens the biggest utility merger on record.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 16, 2026 NextEra and Dominion Sweeten Virginia Offer as $67 Billion Merger Faces Regulatory Heat The companies doubled the duration of customer bill relief and pledged 1,000 new jobs in Virginia two days after shareholders approved the all-stock deal, as the state's governor and legislature push back on a compressed review timeline.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 15, 2026 EverBank Takes $3.9 Billion Reverse Merger Route Into Public Markets Via WaFd Florida-based EverBank will absorb Pacific Northwest lender WaFd in a structure that keeps WaFd's Nasdaq listing alive under a new name, creating a $75 billion regional bank.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 14, 2026 EverBank Buys WaFd in $3.9 Billion Reverse Merger to Build $75 Billion Regional Bank Florida-based EverBank Financial agreed to acquire Pacific Northwest lender WaFd through a reverse merger that leaves WaFd as the surviving public entity, renamed and retickered for Nasdaq.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 13, 2026 Virginia Regulators Face January Deadline on NextEra's $67B Dominion Takeover The Virginia SCC added in-person public hearings this week as scrutiny of the largest utility merger in decades intensifies ahead of a Jan. 11 decision deadline.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 12, 2026 EverBank and WaFd Combine in $3.9 Billion Reverse Merger to Form $75 Billion Regional Bank Florida-based EverBank will merge into Pacific Northwest lender WaFd, with the shell keeping WaFd's public listing while taking EverBank's name and a new Nasdaq ticker.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 11, 2026 EverBank Merges Into WaFd in $3.9 Billion Deal to Build $75 Billion Regional Bank Florida-based EverBank absorbs Pacific Northwest lender WaFd in a reverse structure that hands EverBank's owners 59% of the combined public company.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 10, 2026 EverBank Absorbs WaFd in $3.9 Billion Reverse Merger to Build $75B Regional Bank Florida-based EverBank Financial will merge into the smaller Pacific Northwest lender WaFd, which keeps its Nasdaq listing and rebrands as EverBank Financial Corp under ticker EVBK.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 8, 2026 Aon Buys USI Insurance From KKR for $17 Billion, Doubling Down on Middle Market The all-debt deal is Aon's second major middle-market acquisition in two years and hands KKR a roughly 4x return on its balance-sheet capital.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 6, 2026 Flex Buys EPC Power for $4.4B to Load Up on AI Data Center Infrastructure The manufacturing services giant is folding a California power-conversion specialist into its Cloud and Power Infrastructure unit, which it plans to spin off as a standalone public company in early 2027.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 2, 2026 McCormick Presses Ahead on $44.8 Billion Unilever Foods Merger as Integration Planning Advances The spice maker reported Q2 margin gains while flagging progress on the largest deal in its history, a cash-and-stock combination that would create a roughly $20 billion flavor company.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Sep 1, 2026 Santander Closes $12.2 Billion Webster Bank Deal, Enters U.S. Top-Ten The Spanish banking group completed its purchase of Webster Financial on August 20, clearing three regulators in eight weeks and vaulting itself into the top tier of U.S. commercial banking by assets.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Aug 29, 2026 Nvidia Posts $96 Billion Quarter, Guides to $108 Billion on Accelerating AI Demand The chipmaker's fiscal Q2 data center revenue surged 117% year over year, topping every analyst estimate, while third-quarter guidance landed well above consensus and a new AWS deal adds multi-year supply visibility.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Aug 26, 2026 Virginia Governor Intervenes in NextEra's $67B Dominion Takeover Gov. Abigail Spanberger filed to become a party in the State Corporation Commission review, the first Virginia governor ever to intervene in an SCC proceeding, adding regulatory friction to what would be the largest utility merger in U.S. history.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Aug 25, 2026 Alibaba Sells $10.2 Billion in New Hong Kong Shares to Fund AI Buildout The placement, priced at a 3.6% discount and barred to U.S. investors, sent Hong Kong-listed shares down as much as 10%, days after Alibaba reported a 75% profit drop tied to heavy AI spending.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Aug 24, 2026 Citadel Sheds 80% of Situational Awareness Portfolio Through $4 Billion in Block Trades Ken Griffin disclosed in a Friday investor letter that Citadel executed more than 100 block trades to unwind most of the distressed AI fund's public equity book it purchased at a discount last month.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Aug 23, 2026 AstraZeneca Holds Merger Talks With Bristol Myers Squibb on $400 Billion Deal The Financial Times reported the two drugmakers have been in discussions for months, a combination that would rank among the largest corporate tie-ups in history and invite scrutiny from regulators on both sides of the Atlantic.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Aug 21, 2026 Santander Closes $12.3B Webster Acquisition, Vaults Into U.S. Top Ten The Federal Reserve's August 4 sign-off cleared the last regulatory hurdle for Spain's Banco Santander to absorb Webster Financial, reshaping the Northeast retail-banking map.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Aug 19, 2026 NextEra-Dominion Merger Enters Regulatory Gauntlet With Five Simultaneous Filings The $67 billion all-stock deal to create the world's largest regulated electric utility now faces state and federal reviews that both companies say will take roughly a year to clear.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Aug 18, 2026 Virginia Governor Intervenes in NextEra's $67B Dominion Takeover Gov. Abigail Spanberger became the first Virginia governor to formally join a State Corporation Commission case, demanding more detail on bill affordability, jobs and clean-energy commitments before the deal can close.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Aug 15, 2026 Virginia Governor Intervenes in NextEra's $67B Dominion Takeover Gov. Abigail Spanberger formally joined the state regulatory review as an intervenor on Aug. 6, becoming the first Virginia governor to take that step and adding political friction to a deal already under scrutiny from a U.S. senator.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Aug 13, 2026 Nielsen Buys DoubleVerify for $2.15 Billion in All-Cash Deal The privately held ratings giant takes DoubleVerify off the public markets at $13.60 a share, betting the ad-verification software fills a gap in its streaming measurement push.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Aug 11, 2026 Virginia Governor Intervenes in NextEra's $67 Billion Dominion Acquisition Gov. Abigail Spanberger became the first Virginia governor to formally seek intervenor status before the State Corporation Commission, pressing for affordability and job commitments before the deal can close.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Aug 10, 2026 Salesforce Loses Engineering Chief, Promotes Milano to COO as Stock Slides 19% Over Past Year Srini Tallapragada stepped down as President and Chief Engineering Officer on August 6, the same day Salesforce named revenue chief Miguel Milano its new operating head, sending shares down more than 4% on the news.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Aug 9, 2026 Zillow Cuts 500 Jobs as Wall Street Abandons Its Growth Story Two firms slashed price targets by half or more after Zillow's Q2 earnings showed an 18% revenue beat alongside a soft second-half outlook and a risky monetization pivot.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Aug 7, 2026 Saudi PIF Closes $55 Billion EA Buyout, the Largest LBO in History Electronic Arts delisted from Nasdaq on August 4 after a consortium led by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund completed the all-cash take-private, saddling the company with $20 billion in debt.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Aug 6, 2026 Shopify Q2 Revenue Jumps 34%, Blowing Past Wall Street Estimates The e-commerce platform posted $3.58 billion in second-quarter revenue and $115.6 billion in gross merchandise volume, sending shares up more than 25% on the day.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Aug 5, 2026 Palantir Blows Past Estimates With 93% Revenue Jump, Lifts Full-Year Guidance The AI software company reported Q2 revenue of $1.94 billion and raised its full-year revenue forecast to $8.15 billion, nearly $500 million above its prior guidance range.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Aug 3, 2026 Charter Targets August Close on $34.5B Cox Deal as California Vote Looms CEO Chris Winfrey told analysts Charter is ready to shut the Cox acquisition in mid-to-late August, with a California utility commission vote on Aug. 13 the last gate before a Sept. 15 federal clearance deadline expires.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Aug 2, 2026 S&P Global Beats on Revenue but Misses EPS as Mobility Spinoff Reshapes the Business The data and ratings company posted Q2 revenue of $4.15 billion, up 11%, but adjusted EPS of $4.08 fell well short of Wall Street's $4.75 target, sending shares down more than 5% in premarket trading.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Jul 31, 2026 Barclays Lifts 2026 Income Target After Investment Bank Posts Record Quarter The U.K. lender raised its full-year income target to £31.5 billion and announced a £1 billion buyback, but shares fell after reported EPS missed analyst estimates.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Jul 27, 2026 Alphabet Q2 Revenue Beats at $119.8B, but Raised CapEx Guidance Sinks Stock Google Cloud grew 82% year over year to $24.8 billion, yet shares fell nearly 5% after hours as Alphabet lifted its 2026 capital expenditure forecast to as much as $205 billion.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Jul 24, 2026 Super Micro Discloses $60 Billion in Quarterly Orders, Nearly Doubles Margin Outlook The server maker's preliminary Q4 filing shows a record backlog and gross margins of 15–17%, roughly double prior guidance, though revenue is expected near the low end of its range.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Jul 21, 2026 MasTec Closes $1.65 Billion Buy of Superior Group to Chase Grid-Buildout Work The Coral Gables infrastructure contractor paid roughly $1.18 billion in cash and $475 million in stock to absorb one of the country's largest electrical contractors, betting on sustained federal infrastructure demand.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Jul 20, 2026 Kroger Buys Giant Eagle for $1.65 Billion in First Deal Under New CEO The acquisition of the family-owned regional grocer marks Kroger's return to M&A two years after its $25 billion Albertsons merger collapsed under regulatory pressure.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Jul 18, 2026 Goldman Posts Best Quarter in 157 Years as SpaceX IPO Fees and Record Equities Trading Blow Past Forecasts Goldman Sachs earned $20.98 per share in Q2 2026, nearly doubling year-over-year, while JPMorgan logged the highest quarterly profit in U.S. banking history, both fueled by SpaceX underwriting fees and a historic surge in equity trading.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Jul 16, 2026 NextEra and Dominion File for Regulatory Approval of $67 Billion Utility Merger The companies filed with FERC, the NRC, and three state commissions on July 15, kicking off a review that analysts say is the most consequential utility deal in U.S. history.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Jul 14, 2026 Kroger Agrees to Acquire Giant Eagle for $1.65 Billion, Betting on Midwest Expansion The deal, Kroger's first major acquisition since the failed Albertsons merger, pairs $1.25 billion in cash with roughly $400 million in assumed liabilities and still needs antitrust clearance.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Jul 12, 2026 Kroger Agrees to Buy Giant Eagle for $1.65 Billion The Cincinnati grocer's first big deal under new CEO Greg Foran adds 197 stores and $9 billion in annual sales, but federal antitrust scrutiny looms after the Albertsons collapse.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Jul 11, 2026 Kroger Agrees to Buy Giant Eagle for $1.65 Billion The deal, Kroger's first major acquisition since its blocked Albertsons merger, adds 197 supermarkets and $9 billion in annual sales but faces antitrust scrutiny and an expected 2027 close.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Jul 10, 2026 Kroger Buys Giant Eagle for $1.65 Billion in First Major Deal Since Failed Albertsons Merger The grocer agreed to acquire the Pittsburgh-based regional chain, adding 197 stores across five states and roughly $9 billion in annual sales to its network.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Jul 8, 2026 Senator Asks FERC to Block $67B NextEra-Dominion Utility Merger Sen. Angus King urged federal regulators to reject the deal, citing anticompetitive behavior by NextEra in New England, as the merger awaits approval from five separate regulatory bodies.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent
• Business Jun 27, 2026 NextEra Bets $67 Billion on Dominion to Corner AI Power Demand The all-stock deal, announced May 18, would create the world's largest regulated electric utility and hand one company control over power from Virginia to Florida.
  By Sasha Park, Correspondent

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