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[ad_1] By Anne CosgroveFrom the January/February 2025 IssueAs 2024 came to a close, Eli Lilly and Company announced its plan to invest $3 billion to expand a Kenosha County, Wisconsin manufacturing facility it acquired from Nexus Pharmaceuticals Inc. earlier that year. Lilly expects to add 750 jobs to the location’s current 130-plus workforce. And the company plans to start construction on the expansion next year, creating an expected 2,000 construction jobs.“Today’s announcement represents our single largest U.S. manufacturing investment outside our home state of Indiana and will add to our ability to expand capacity to make both our existing and future pipeline…

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[ad_1] An Estee Lauder counter is seen on the floor of a department store in Brooklyn on Feb. 5, 2025 in New York City.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesSeveral beauty stocks posted major losses this week, as companies like E.l.f. Beauty and Estee Lauder reported disappointing earnings and cut guidance.E.l.f. closed out its worst week since August 2018, with shares cratering nearly 29% over the five-day period. The cosmetics brand on Thursday posted a revenue beat for its fiscal third quarter, but missed on adjusted earnings per share and cut its full-year guidance to between $1.3 billion and $1.31 billion in…

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[ad_1] President Donald Trump on Friday suggested that Nippon Steel would no longer buy U.S. Steel as planned, and would instead invest in the company. The U.S. president mistakenly referred to Nippon Steel as “Nissan,” the Japanese automaker. WATCH LIVE: Trump holds news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba at the White House But it’s Nippon Steel’s bid that both Trump and President Joe Biden vowed to block. Nippon Steel “is going to be doing something very exciting about US Steel,” Trump said with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba by his side. “They’ll be looking at an investment rather than…

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[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday suggested that Nippon Steel would no longer buy U.S. Steel as planned, but the Japanese company would instead invest in the symbolically important American business. The U.S. president mistakenly referred to Nippon Steel as “Nissan,” the Japanese automaker. But it’s Nippon Steel’s bid that generated controversy as both Trump and his predecessor in the White House, Joe Biden, vowed to block the merger. Nippon Steel “is going to be doing something very exciting about U.S. Steel,” Trump said at a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. “They’ll be looking…

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[ad_1] Verisk Maplecroft’s Resource Nationalism Index (RNI), which measures protectionism and interventionism in the energy and mining space across 198 countries, highlights a sharp increase in protectionist policies over the past five years. The trend is most pronounced in Europe and North America, where geopolitical tensions and a fractured global landscape are reshaping economic practices. Europe has been at the forefront of this shift, with major economies like Germany, Spain, the UK, and Poland showing significant declines in the RNI rankings. Germany, in particular, has plummeted 122 places in the index, reflecting its aggressive policies to reduce dependence on external…

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[ad_1] The Synergy Solution: How Companies Win the Mergers and Acquisitions Game. 2022. Mark L. Sirower and Jeffery M. Weirens. Harvard Business Review Press. “Poorly planned and executed acquisitions have almost certainly destroyed far more investment value than managerial acts of fraud.” Investors who remember massive fraud-related wealth destroyers such as Enron, HealthSouth, and Parmalat might wonder whether this statement from The Synergy Solution: How Companies Win the Mergers and Acquisitions Game is correct. Authors Mark L. Sirower and Jeffrey M. Weirens support their claim, however, with examples such as insurer Conseco’s ill-fated, all-stock 1998 acquisition of subprime mobile home…

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[ad_1] Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ:TWST) investors will be delighted, with the company turning in some strong numbers with its latest results. Revenues beat expectations coming in atUS$89m, ahead of estimates by 2.0%. Statutory losses were somewhat smaller thanthe analysts expected, coming in at US$0.53 per share. This is an important time for investors, as they can track a company’s performance in its report, look at what experts are forecasting for next year, and see if there has been any change to expectations for the business. So we gathered the latest post-earnings forecasts to see what estimates suggest is in store…

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[ad_1] I want to expand a bit on market liquidity and why modeling it is so crucial to the economy, inflation, and money management. Liquidity is the progenitor of Pento Portfolio Strategies’ Inflation Deflation and Economic Cycle (IDEC) model. It is the primary force behind what drives the inflation/deflation dynamic and, ultimately, the direction of stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities. The Factors affecting liquidity are bank lending practices, the level of real interest rates, debt and deficits, credit spreads, financial conditions, the direction of the Fed’s balance sheet, the RRP, and the TGA. The IDEC strategy specializes in mapping this…

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