January 2026 – Page 63 – Finance Updates

Investment Banking in Late-2025: Megadeals, IPO Revival & PE Shake-Ups Forecasted for 2026

Global Forecast Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

Global M&A value rebounded in 2025 to roughly...

Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan gained share in ad...

Tech, healthcare, financials, and infrastruct...

For 2026, expectations are cautiously positiv...

Bitcoin Sinks 30% Since October: What Moves Could Trigger a Bounce Back

Global Markets Finance and Insurance

Bitcoin ended 2025 around $87,000–$90,000, ro...

Large holders sold about 161,294 BTC (~$15B) ...

2026 outlooks diverge from a pullback toward ...

Key drivers to watch are Fed policy and infla...

Investment Banks Reshape Power: Leadership, Stratified Sectors & AI in Deals

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

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Major banks are seeing notable senior-banker ...

Firms are reallocating sector focus toward AI...

U.S. bulge-bracket banks are expanding Managi...

How AI Summaries & Budget Cuts Are Reshaping Journalism Funding

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Google is piloting AI-generated article overv...

Separately, a California local-news funding d...

These moves highlight rising tension among pl...

Baidu Primes Kunlunxin IPO as AI Chip Value Nears $20B, Jefferies Backs Big Upside

Asia Firms Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing

Baidu’s AI chip unit Kunlunxin confidentially...

Jefferies values Kunlunxin at US$16–23B, impl...

Baidu shares jumped about 10–12%, and Jefferi...

Key risks include listing approval and timing...

How the New Stranger Things Spinoff Explains Vecna, the Upside Down & Henry’s Briefcase

Global FYI Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

The Duffer Brothers say a live-action Strange...

The new series will not follow Hawkins or the...

The briefcase is linked to stolen Upside Down...

Even with that reveal, open questions remain ...

Rising Bankruptcy & Regulatory Risk: What Firms Must Know About Due Diligence

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

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Secondary searches surfaced broad finance the...

Without identifying the companies, event, or ...

Next steps are to obtain the full text and th...

How Stranger Things’ New Spinoffs Balance Original Roots with Bold New Worlds

Global Firms Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

Netflix and the Duffer Brothers are developin...

The spinoff is meant to stand alone rather th...

The original Stranger Things narrative conclu...

An animated series, Stranger Things: Tales fr...

How Google’s AI Overviews Are Reshaping Publisher Traffic, Revenue & Legal Risks

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Google’s AI Overviews are sharply cutting pub...

Zero-click news searches are rising fast, fro...

Publishers are pursuing lawsuits and regulato...

Outlets with subscriptions and evergreen, hig...

Warner Bros Discovery Picks Netflix Merger Over Paramount’s $108B Bid Amid Regulatory Risks

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Warner Bros. Discovery agreed to sell its stu...

Paramount/Skydance countered with a hostile a...

WBD’s board urged shareholders to reject Para...

Shareholders now weigh headline price versus ...