FDA reversals on UniQure, Moderna approvals worry investors

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Investors are concerned about the fates of multiple experimental drugs for hard-to-treat diseases following a string of recent rejections from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.  The FDA in the past year has denied or discouraged the applications of at least eight drugs, according to RTW Investments, including a gene therapy for Huntington’s disease from […]


Paramount Skydance has been frantically begging activist investors for help with its Netflix battle

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Bankers for Paramount Skydance have been actively looking for activist investors to help it upend Warner Bros. Discovery’s sale of its studio and streaming service to Netflix, On The Money has learned. One emerged on Wednesday when Ancora Holdings announced it had built a tiny stake – just $200 million in a company with a […]


Family offices could be hit in Trump ban on investors buying homes

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  Single-family homes in a residential neighborhood in Miramar, Florida, Oct. 27, 2022. Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty Images A 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. Private […]


Wall Street wrote off the stock as too expensive. Retail investors can’t get enough

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Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Kyle Dijamco is a proud member of Palantir Technologies‘ fast-growing retail investor base. The Los Angeles-based marketer has bet big on the defense tech stock, even increasing his exposure after a drawdown earlier this year. The 31-year-old’s position now stands at roughly $25,000. “It’s an exciting stock to […]


TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance inks deal to sell US operations to American investors, including Oracle

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TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, signed binding agreements with three major investors to sell just over 80% of the company’s US assets to American and global investors to avoid a US government ban, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew told employees on Thursday. The deal is a major step toward resolving years of uncertainty about the short video app’s […]


Paramount Skydance is now tapping Middle-Eastern investors in hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

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Why does Paramount Skydance need the Persian Gulf to finance its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery? It’s a niggling question that hasn’t gone away for Paramount Skydance owners David and Larry Ellison, the son-and-father duo now scrambling to persuade shareholders of the company, known as WBD, to sell the media giant to them instead of Netflix. […]


Japanese investors turn to Europe in lieu of own ecosystem

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Huge swathes of cash are flowing from Japan to European tech startups as risk-averse investors favor a more mature entrepreneurial ecosystem, helping to scale the continent’s booming deep tech cluster. While the European startup and venture capital ecosystem has long operated in the shadow of Silicon Valley, it has become fertile ground for Japanese corporates, […]


Meta, Microsoft shares plunge as investors fear AI spending is overhyped

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Shares in Meta and Microsoft plunged Thursday after the tech giants announced plans to ramp up AI spending – and investors worried that the cash might not yield major payouts. Fears that artificial intelligence investments have been overhyped sent the tech-heavy Nasdaq down 1.3% as of about 3:30 p.m. ET Thursday. Meta’s stock cratered about […]


How a string of bad loans has bank investors hunting for hidden risks

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Big banks including JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs had just finished taking victory laps after a blockbuster quarter when concerns emerged from an obscure corner of Wall Street, sending a collective shiver through global finance. Regional bank Zions late Wednesday disclosed a near total wipeout on $60 million in loans after finding “apparent misrepresentations” from […]


Here’s why investors shouldn’t hold their breath for a lucrative TikTok IPO

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President Trump may have cut a deal to save TikTok from extinction in the US – but investors shouldn’t expect to cash in on a lucrative initial public offering anytime soon, On The Money has learned. That’s the consensus from people inside the US investment group as they put the finishing touches on a new […]