Finance Updates – Page 26 – Finance Updates

What’s Driving Investment Banking Into 2026: Key Trends in M&A, Revenue & Global Finance

Global Forecast Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

Big US banks are set for their best investmen...

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are poised t...

Global investment-banking revenues are projec...

Risks for 2026 include high expectations, ris...

SoftBank Acquires DigitalBridge in $4B Deal to Power AI Infrastructure Expansion

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

SoftBank agreed to buy DigitalBridge for abou...

The transaction is targeted to close in H2 20...

DigitalBridge brings roughly $108 billion of ...

The deal advances SoftBank’s “physical AI” st...

KeyBanc Sees Pegasystems Leading Appian in Cloud Growth & AI Potential

Americas Firms Software Publishers

KeyBanc initiated Pegasystems (PEGA) at Overw...

PEGA is showing strong cloud transition momen...

APPN is improving with ~21% cloud subscriptio...

The workflow automation thesis hinges on AI-l...

KeyBanc Warns Cleveland-Cliffs Stock Overvalued Despite Rare Earth Upside

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

KeyBanc downgraded Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF) to ...

The bank flags rising unit costs, looming pre...

CLF is exploring rare earth potential at Mich...

Q3 2025 results showed modest revenue growth ...

Metalmark’s 2018 Equity Deal Propelled HOST’s Infrastructure Growth & Founder Control

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Metalmark Capital made a minority growth inve...

Deal terms were not disclosed, and the Host f...

The investment helped HOST scale from a regio...

Value creation hinges on executing large port...

Bojangles’ $1.5B Sale in the Works: Can Growth, Value Hold Up Beyond the Deep South?

Americas M&A Restaurants and Other Eating Places

Bojangles has hired bankers to explore a sale...

The potential deal is fueled by a red-hot chi...

Bojangles is pushing expansion beyond the Sou...

Any premium valuation hinges on proving unit ...

2025 Forex Boom: Trends, Regulation & Emerging Currencies Reshaping FX Markets

Global Markets Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

Global FX turnover hit a record USD 9.6T per ...

The U.S. dollar remains on one side of 89% of...

Brokers like FOREX.com are expanding access w...

Regulators are tightening rules on capital, e...

Stocks & Bonds Outlook 2026: Navigating Inflation, Rates & Valuations

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

In 2025, U.S. stocks and core bonds both rall...

In 2026, sticky inflation, heavy deficits, an...

Stocks may still advance on earnings and AI-l...

Positioning favors diversification, high-qual...

Mounting U.S. Debt & Booming Corporate Bond Supply: What Investors Must Know

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

U.S. gross debt topped $38 trillion in Octobe...

Wall Street expects a surge in investment-gra...

This corporate supply competes with heavy Tre...

With foreign official demand for Treasuries m...

US Job Growth Slows, Unemployment Rises: Yield Shifts Point to Fed Rate Cuts in Mid-2026

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

U.S. 10-year Treasury yields slipped about 1 ...

The 2-year yield rose as markets leaned towar...

Goldman Sachs delayed its first expected rate...

2025 job growth was the weakest since 2003 ou...