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A unit of Goldman Sachs is in talks to buy a stake in Permira, in a deal that would value the private-equity firm at more than $5 billion.

The proposal seeks to further ease rules for measures such as crowdfunding, which was supposed to make it cheaper and easier for small companies to raise limited pools of capital online

Blackstone Group, co-founded by billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, overtook Goldman Sachs in market value, capping an epic regime change on Wall Street.

Zoom Video, Campbell Soup, United Airlines and Brown-Forman are among the companies with shares expected to trade actively in Thursday's session.

It was another ugly, ugly day due to the coronavirus. Once again, the defense is on the field and the offense is on the bench as investors appear to be moving into a risk-off position for now.

A huge factor in understanding why the coronavirus has been so impactful is China's size today relative to its size during the financial crisis. It only makes sense--the bigger the economy, the bigger the effect.

In trading on Thursday, shares of NU Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:NUS) were yielding above the 6% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1.5), with the stock changing hands as low as $24.34 on the day.

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Demand for Germany's 'bunds' is soaring, sending the yield down faster than for other European governments' debt, amid worry about the coronavirus's effects.

The cartel opted to curb production among member nations by 1 million barrels a day in response to reduced demand owing to the coronavirus epidemic.

Monday's huge stock-price surge apparently produced an even bigger leap in email sent by Wall Street salespeople and traders to their clients.

OPEC reached a preliminary agreement to cut crude output by 1 million barrels a day to support oil prices, as it seeks to persuade Russia to join its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

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A cut from the cartel may be too little to stave off a further oil-price collapse, and Saudi Arabia will suffer more than most.

Treasury yields fell again Thursday, pulled down by investors' appetite for safe assets and wagers that the Federal Reserve will take further action to counter the economic impact of the novel coronavirus.

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The fallout from the coronavirus epidemic is threatening to weigh on advertising agencies and media companies' operations as the disruption to the global economy from travel bans and quarantines spreads further afield.

Major banks' demand for short-term cash from the Federal Reserve remained strong, although there was some softening in the appetite for overnight loans.

Should the virus spread in the U.S. as it is spreading in Italy, U.S. earnings could see similar declines.

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This year is shaping up to be the toughest for manufacturers since 2009 as the epidemic hits auto sales while they're down.

Regardless of how long the economic disruption caused by the Covid-19 outbreak turns out to last, with British regional airline Flybe it has already tipped at least one troubled company over the edge.