(Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.) “It’s very difficult to buy a sports team and lose money,” Carlyle Co-Founder David Rubenstein recently said in an interview for a CNBC podcast.  Historically, that purported upside has only been enjoyed by the wealthiest of the wealthy. But most major U.S. sport leagues have – just within the last
0 Comments
Key Findings Pillar Two, an international tax agreement, is intended to incentivize countries to set corporate income tax rates at 15 percent or higher. This agreement threatens the U.S. tax base in two ways: potential lost revenue and limitations on Congress’s ability to set its own tax policy. We analyze the revenue effects of other
0 Comments
Relations between Washington and Beijing are at their lowest in decades amid disputes over trade, technology, human rights and China’s increasingly aggressive approach toward its territorial claims involving self-governing Taiwan and the South China Sea. Jason Lee | Reuters BEIJING — China’s ambassador to the U.S., Xie Feng, has blamed U.S. tariffs and export controls
0 Comments
Enrique Lores, CEO, HP Scott Mlyn | CNBC Shares of HP fell more than 8% Wednesday morning after the printer and PC-maker released fiscal third quarter earnings that underwhelmed Wall Street. HP reported $13.2 billion in revenue, down from the $13.37 billion expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. Earnings per share came in line with
0 Comments
Haitham al-Ghais, secretary-general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), speaking at the Energy Asia Summit on June 26, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images What do toothpaste, deodorant, soap, cameras, computers, gasoline, heating oil, jet fuel, car tires, contact lenses and artificial limbs have in common? If oil vanished today, these and
0 Comments
eclipse_images | E+ | Getty Images So-called junk fees can be tricky. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been scrutinizing some banking fees, including those for overdrafts and non-sufficient funds, that can catch customers by surprise — and are “likely unfair and unlawful,” according to the agency. The consumer watchdog proposed a rule prohibiting financial institutions from charging certain fees on
0 Comments
State Attorney General Letitia James seen during public safety announcement to prevent gun violence at City Hall, July 31, 2023. Lev Radin | Pacific Press | Lightrocket | Getty Images New York’s attorney general asked a judge Wednesday for a partial summary judgment against Donald Trump in her $250 million lawsuit accusing the former president
0 Comments