Berkshire completes Taylor Morrison deal valued at $8.5B EV

Key insight: For the Federal Reserve to shrink its balance sheet, it will need banks to hold fewer deposits at the central bank. Achieving that reduction starts with regulatory reform, analysts and academics say. Expert quote: “The way to get this accomplished is alongside a changing liquidity, regulatory and supervisory backdrop for the Fed.” —…

Trump’s ICC order violates free speech, advocacy groups say in lawsuit

Brookfield is in talks to take a 10% stake in Hudson Square Properties, a 13-building office complex on the West Side of Manhattan.  The deal would value the 6.2M SF campus, which is positioning itself as a nucleus for tech and media tenants in the city, at $3.5B, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing anonymous…

The Facebook and Instagram parent has guided to as much as US$145bn in capital spending this year, CNBC reported, a forecast that has drawn investor skepticism.   Meta’s shares have fallen about 9 percent in 2026 while the Nasdaq has gained 11 percent, the network said, and the company is building a cloud-computing business that could…

I have a lot of short conversations about dividend stocks. They go something like this: “Oh, your specialty is dividend stocks? What do you think about XYZ?” It’s almost always a stock that yields 2% or less. If I know a little about the company, I’ll start by saying something positive before I say, “Ah,…

Advisors are increasingly turning to tax-aware long-short strategies to help clients diversify concentrated stock positions without immediately realizing large capital gains bills, as investor demand has helped drive more than $150 billion into the strategy, according to industry estimates. Processing Content Several versions of this strategy can be used, depending on clients’ individual situations, and…