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Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Offers to Buy Universal Music Group for Around $60 Billion

The bid marks the latest attempt by the activist investor to land the world's largest record label.

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Air India CEO Resigns Amid Industry Headwinds

Air India Chief Executive Campbell Wilson is stepping down, the latest setback for India's flag carrier as it grapples with continuing losses following a deadly crash last year.

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Babylist Hires First Chief Marketing Officer Ahead of Potential IPO

Babylist, a company that helps expectant parents build gift registries, hired Jill Cress as its first chief marketing officer.

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LG Electronics Expects First-Quarter Earnings Rebound

The South Korean consumer-electronics company has projected a solid earnings rebound, driven by record first-quarter revenue and improving profitability in its home-appliance, television and vehicle-component businesses.

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Samsung Projects Eightfold Profit Leap as AI Chip Demand Soars

The world's largest memory-chip maker forecast a more than eightfold jump in first-quarter operating profit, signaling continued record earnings amid the artificial-intelligence boom.

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Anthropic in Talks to Invest $200 Million in New Private-Equity Venture

General Atlantic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman are among the private-equity firms in discussions to back the project.

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Startup Bets AI Can Replace Wall Street Analysts, Too

Anthony Pompliano's ProCap Financial is launching a new business focused on AI-generated research reports for individual investors.

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Health insurers secured a better Medicare Advantage rate for 2027, and their stocks are soaring

Shares of health insurers rallied in premarket trading on Tuesday after the government improved the initial Medicare Advantage rate increase for next year.

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NOVA Infrastructure Raises $1.45 Billion for Second Main Fund

The investment firm has already made two deals through the vehicle, including backing data-center operator DartPoints.

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Broadcom to Supply AI Chips to Google, Computing Capacity to Anthropic in Expanded Collaboration

Broadcom will develop and supply custom AI chips for Google and additional computing capacity to Anthropic in an expansion of the strategic collaboration between the three companies.

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Amazon and U.S. Postal Service Reach Delivery Deal

The e-commerce giant, under a new plan, will cut back the packages it ships through USPS by 20%, less than the proposal the sides had discussed earlier.

 

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April 07, 2026 07:00 ET (11:00 GMT)

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