[ad_1] In what marks the first time in its 22-year history that Entertainment 360 has taken outside funding, the talent management company has closed on an equity stake with global investment firm Carlyle. It is a substantial minority stake and the principals would not disclose how much. The company’s board and leadership remains intact, and the investment will be used to fuel growth in the company. In an email sent to staff announcing the deal Wednesday, the Entertainment 360 board hailed the partnership’s benefits for the firm’s clients and productions. “Our clients are at the center of everything we do…
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[ad_1] A view of emergency response looking from Arlington, Va., south of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, across the Potomac River toward the District of Columbia, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025.Alex Brandon | APThe Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a midair collision of an American Airlines regional jet with a helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport outside Washington, D.C.The PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jetliner collided with a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter while the passenger jet was on approach to Runway 33 at the airport, the FAA said. Flight 5342 was arriving from Wichita, Kansas.A view of emergency response looking from…
[ad_1] Simon DedmanBBC political reporter, EssexNational HighwaysThe new crossing between Tilbury and Gravesend would be the UK’s longest road tunnelChancellor Rachel Reeves has said the government is exploring the option of privately financing the Lower Thames Crossing project.In her keynote speech on growing the economy, she said the tunnel would be part of the “infrastructure our country desperately needs”.The crossing would become the largest road tunnel in the UK and would be built underneath the Thames linking Tilbury in Essex and Gravesend in Kent.Costed at about £8.3bn, it will be one of the most expensive infrastructure projects in British history.National…
[ad_1] (Reuters) -Japan’s SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25 billion into ChatGPT maker OpenAI, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. SoftBank could invest $15 billion to $25 billion directly into Microsoft-backed OpenAI on top of its commitment of more than $15 billion to Stargate, the report said, citing multiple people with direct knowledge of the negotiations. Stargate is a joint venture by Oracle, OpenAI and Softbank that plans to invest $500 billion to help the United States stay ahead of China and other rivals in the global AI race. “The talks are ongoing and the amount…
[ad_1] SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI as part of a broader partnership that could see the Japanese conglomerate spend more than $40 billion on AI initiatives with the Microsoft-backed startup, according to the Financial Times. The potential investment would make SoftBank OpenAI’s largest single backer, the report said, surpassing Microsoft, which first invested in the ChatGPT maker in 2019. The deal comes after both companies announced last week they would jointly invest $100 billion in Stargate, a U.S. data center project for OpenAI that could expand to $500 billion over four years. SoftBank…
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[ad_1] Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., shares House Republicans’ plans to tackle ESG on ‘The Bottom Line.’ EXCLUSIVE: Nearly two dozen state financial officers are calling on federal financial regulators to issue clear guidance and establish new rules concerning ESG-centered investing. ESG stands for “environmental, social and governance,” and can conflict with investments made strictly from a fiduciary standpoint. The officers aim to protect Americans’ passive retirement plans through these measures. State treasurers and auditors from Alaska to South Carolina wrote to the acting heads of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Department of Labor (DOL) after a Texas court ruling…
[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.Cheney Orr | Manuel Orbegozo | ReutersMeta said Wednesday it would pay $25 million to settle a four-year-old lawsuit from President Donald Trump over the social media company’s decision to suspend Trump’s accounts after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, filed a notice of the settlement in federal court in San Francisco, where the lawsuit was pending. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone separately confirmed the terms: a $25 million payment from the company, with $22 million going toward a fund for Trump’s presidential library…
[ad_1] The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is one of the marvels of 20th century economic scholarship. Indeed, its creators took home Nobel Prizes for their efforts, and its insights have helped drive asset allocation decisions since the 1960s. To this day, many graduate school finance professors consider it the gospel on how to value equities. The problem, of course, is that it doesn’t always work in practice. So, we fixed it. Measuring the Equity Risk Premium (ERP) Correctly My team and I have spent the past five years studying the behavior of the US stock market over the past…
[ad_1] By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. stocks ended lower on Wednesday, but off their lows of the day, with the Federal Reserve holding interest rates steady as expected and Fed Chair Jerome Powell offering soothing comments for investors. Technology shares were the biggest drag on the S&P 500. Nvidia shares fell 4.1% and Microsoft finished 1.1% lower on Wednesday, two days after a tech selloff sparked by Chinese startup DeepSeek’s launch of AI models it said were cost-effective and ran on less advanced chips compared to U.S.-based OpenAI. Stocks initially extended losses after the Fed statement, with the…