Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
Janus Henderson is set to leave the public markets in a landmark private equity style transaction that values the investment manager at $7.4 billion and hands control to activist powerhouse Trian and growth investor General Catalyst. The all cash deal caps years of pressure on traditional asset managers to scale up, modernize their technology and…
Wall Street’s favorite barometer of anxiety is flashing something close to serenity as 2025 winds down, even after a powerful multi‑year rally in U.S. equities. The CBOE Volatility Index, better known as the VIX, is sitting near levels that historically signal comfort rather than concern, even as the economic and policy backdrop grows more complicated…
Flames and smoke over the Gulf of Finland have turned Russia’s main Baltic oil gateway into a battlefield, as a wave of 221 drones ripped through air defenses and set critical fuel infrastructure ablaze. The strikes around St. Petersburg and its satellite ports have inflicted losses that Russian officials and independent analysts alike estimate in…
Michael Burry has become shorthand for market skepticism, but his latest alarm is not about a single stock. His new focus is on how deeply American households are tied to equities, and how fragile that wealth could be if sentiment turns. If he is right, the risk stretches far beyond his headline‑grabbing short on Palantir…
The stock market is entering 2026 with a statistical pattern that has appeared only twice in roughly a century and a half, and both prior instances ended badly for overconfident investors. The S&P 500 has delivered a powerful multi‑year surge, valuations are stretched by several historic measures, and a handful of giant technology names are…
A massive cyberattack on a key banking technology provider has quietly put the identities of roughly 400,000 people at risk, turning a behind-the-scenes vendor into the epicenter of a financial privacy crisis. For those caught up in the fallout, the story is not only about stolen data but also about whether they can force the…
Thiel-backed digital bank Erebor is preparing to vault into a higher league of fintech valuations, targeting a new price tag of $4.35 billion on the back of fresh capital and hard-won regulatory approvals. The move signals how aggressively Silicon Valley founders and investors are still willing to bet on banking startups that promise to blend…
Global wealth is ballooning on paper far faster than the real economy is growing, and that gap is quietly transforming who gets rich and who is left behind. Instead of coming from new factories, better infrastructure or higher wages, much of today’s fortune-building is riding on soaring prices for stocks, real estate and other financial…
President Donald Trump’s new 12 billion dollar farm rescue is being sold as a lifeline, but many growers see it as a one year patch on a much deeper wound. With profits already collapsing and bankruptcies climbing, producers warn that the structure of the plan could actually accelerate failures if it props up today’s balance…
Doug Burgum has staked his tenure at the Interior Department on a simple promise: that President Donald Trump is restoring cheap, secure American energy by tearing down barriers to drilling, mining, and power generation. From offshore lease sales to liquefied natural gas exports, the administration is moving quickly to expand supply and rewire federal oversight….