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Temasek Holdings and Trustbridge Partners held negotiations with WeWork China to acquire a majority stake of the Chinese branch, as reported by Reuters. The two companies value WeWork China at about $1 billion, said people familiar with the matter. Accordingly, investment company Temasek and private equity firm Trustbridge submitted the proposal to the Japanese multinational conglomerate company SoftBank Group Corp, which is the major stakeholder…
Wells Fargo reported its quarterly performance results on earlier this week on Tuesday. The report highlighted the bank’s quarterly profits to have taken a hit due to massive litigation charges and the lower interest rates policy from the U.S Federal Reserve. According to Refinitiv, analysts had forecast $20.14 billion in revenue for Wells Fargo in the fourth quarter. On earnings per share (EPS) front, experts had anticipated the company to make…
Bank of New York (BNY) Mellon announced its quarterly profit results on Thursday. Having missed the analysts’ forecast for profit in the fourth quarter, the bank blamed consecutive rate cuts from the U.S Federal Reserve that resulted in lower than expected profits from the interest-earning assets. All major U.S banks reported their earnings earlier in the week with all of them highlighting to have taken a blow due to the added monetary policy len…
UnitedHealth Group reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ estimates on Wednesday, as the largest U.S. health care company successfully controlled medical costs and reaped the benefits with Optum, its pharmacy benefits management business. Still, shares of UnitedHealth dropped 1% before the session ended, following the company’s confirmation of its full-year forecast for 2020 adjusted earnings of $16.25 to $16.55 per share, in contra…
Morgan Stanley announced on Thursday that its quarterly profit came out stronger than the analysts’ forecast. The American multinational investment bank further added that its quarterly revenue from all three of the primary businesses beat the estimates. In the fourth quarter, Morgan Stanley reported $2.24 billion in revenue that marked a 46% hike. According to Refinitiv, analysts were expecting 99 cents of earnings per share for the investment b…
The largest U.S health insurer, United Health, announced quarterly performance results on Wednesday. Owing to a broader control on medical costs and improvement in its pharmacy benefits management division, the insurer recorded an upbeat profit in the fourth quarter. Following the earnings report, the insurer also highlighted its forecast for 2020 (full-year) that highlighted $16.25 to $16.55 of adjusted earnings per share. In a previous estimate…
Tradeshift has today announced it received a new round of funding amounting to $240 million in equity and debt. The near-quarter, a billion additional capital, was obtained from new and existing investors. The firm, which made founded in 2008, set out to disrupt the conventional supply chain payments and marketplaces. Tradeshift plans to use the money to bolster its growth, and set the firm to what it describes as “a direct path to profitability…
BlackRock has a reputation of the largest asset manager across the globe. In its earnings report revealed on Wednesday, BlackRock beat experts’ forecast on the profit front. The American global investment management corporation stated growth in its exchange-traded fund business to have helped post an upbeat quarterly profit. The report further highlighted the BlackRock’s assets to have hit the $7.43 trillion mark. In the fourth quarter tha…
The Bank of America (BoA) announced its quarterly performance results for the fourth quarter on Wednesday. The company cited its repurchase of shares and a sharp increase in trading revenue to have contributed to the better than expected profit in the recent quarter. The bank revealed to have made $7 billion in profit in Q4 that marked a 4% decline as compared to the same quarter last year. According to Refinitiv, analysts had expected the compan…
As per the quarterly performance report on Wednesday, Goldman Sachs beat analysts’ forecast for revenue. In terms of quarterly profit, however, the American multinational investment bank fell shy of the estimate due to a massive litigation charge of $1.1 billion. According to Refinitiv’s data, analysts had expected the financial services company to note $8.51 billion in revenue. Wednesday’s report, on the other hand, recorded Goldman Sachs to hav…