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Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Inc., attends his company’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in New York City, U.S., April 29, 2026. Brendan McDermid | ReutersBill Ackman’s Pershing Square has built a position in Microsoft, as the hedge fund manager said the software giant’s recent pullback created a rare opportunity to buy one of the world’s dominant technology franchises at a compelling valuation.Ackman disclosed the investment in a lengthy post Friday ahead of his firm’s quarterly 13F filing, saying Pershing Square began accumulating shares in February after Microsoft’s stock declined following its fiscal second-quarter…
LONDON, ENGLAND – JULY 9: British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer hosts the first roundtable of regional English mayors with Andy Burnham (R) Mayor of Greater Manchester, at Downing Street on July 9, 2024 in London, England. Sir Keir Starmer hosted the first roundtable with metro mayors from 11 regions across England. (Photo by Ian Vogler – WPA Pool/Getty Images)Wpa Pool | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesLONDON — U.K. gilts and sterling have come under increasing pressure, amid fears a new left-leaning prime minister will challenge the country’s fiscal discipline and take up a confrontational stance towards bond markets.Investors…
Fish farm nets on the East coast.Shaunl | E+ | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high net worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Equity Group Investments, backed by the family of late billionaire Sam Zell, owns a John Deere dealership, a bluefin tuna fishery and a pedestrian bridge that connects San Diego to Tijuana International Airport. While those holdings sound entirely unrelated, what unites the private investment firm’s wide-ranging portfolio is a focus on old-economy businesses that are less…
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Andrew Feldman, co-founder and chief executive officer of Cerebras Systems Inc., holds the Wafer Scale Engine 3 AI chip during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Thursday, May 14, 2026. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCerebras Systems narrowly missed joining Facebook-parent Meta and Alibaba as one of the few companies to have ended its first day trading on Wall Street with a market cap of over $100 billion.The semiconductor company’s shares were 68% higher at the closing bell on Thursday, giving it a market cap of about $95 billion.During Alibaba’s IPO…
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Cerebras Systems Inc. signage during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Thursday, May 14, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCerebras Systems’ shares were volatile in early trading Friday after the company completed the largest IPO by a U.S. tech firm in years.The semiconductor firm initially sold shares at $185 as it started trading on the New York-based Nasdaq stock exchange, before closing at $331.07 per share. Cerebras’ stock soared 68% by the closing bell, giving it a market cap of about $95 billion. The firm sold 30 million shares…
Bill Ackman, chief executive officer of Pershing Square Capital Management LP, center, during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBill Ackman’s hedge fund Pershing Square will disclose a new position in Microsoft later in the day, the billionaire investor said on Friday, arguing that the tech giant sits at a “highly compelling valuation”.Ackman’s new closed-end fund Pershing Square USA, which debuted on the NYSE last month, has also recently made Microsoft a core holding, he…
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A zero-day exploit circulating online allows people with physical access to a Windows 11 system to bypass default BitLocker protections and gain complete access to an encrypted drive within seconds. The exploit, named YellowKey, was published earlier this week by a researcher who goes by the alias Nightmare-Eclipse. It reliably bypasses default Windows 11 deployments of BitLocker, the full-volume encryption protection Microsoft provides to make disk contents off-limits to anyone without the decryption key, which is stored in a secured piece of hardware known as a trusted platform module (TPM). BitLocker is a mandatory protection for many organizations, including those…