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Macy's to close 125 stores, cut more than 2,000 jobs

Macy’s said it would close stores in “lower tier” malls, and explore new off-mall formats, as it looks to tackle plummeting mall traffic in the United States. “We will focus our resources on the healthy parts of our business, directly address the unhealthy parts of the business and explore new revenue streams,” Chief Executive Officer Jeff Gennette said in a statement. …read more […]

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Autonomy Founder Lynch Arrested in U.S. Extradition Fight

(Bloomberg) — Autonomy founder Mike Lynch, who’s fighting U.S. charges that he orchestrated a massive fraud at his software firm, was arrested in London as authorities pushed forward with his extradition.Lynch submitted himself for arrest and was granted conditional bail after being ordered to put up a 10 million-pound ($13 million) security, Westminster Magistrates Court staff said Wednesday. The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that Lynch made false statements to make his software firm more attractive to Hewlett-Packard Co., which acquired Autonomy for $11 billion in 2011. It wrote down the value by $8.8 billion just a year later.“Dr. Lynch …read more […]

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$55 Billion Tesla Frenzy Has Morgan Stanley Lacking Answers

(Bloomberg) — About $55 billion of Tesla Inc. shares were traded Tuesday as investors piled into a rally that has doubled the electric-car maker’s stock price since the start of the year.To put it into context, that’s just over five times the volume of the stock with the day’s second highest turnover, Apple Inc. As noted by Morgan Stanley, the record trading also exceeded this year’s average repo operation conducted by the Federal Reserve to support the overnight funding needs of the U.S. banking sector. The average daily value of Tesla stock changing hands last year was $2.5 billion.Touted reasons …read more […]

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With Tesla stock envy, GM hopes to sell investors on its EV, tech future

General Motors Co has watched with frustration and envy as the market value of electric carmaker Tesla Inc has ballooned to more than triple GM’s size, but Wednesday the Detroit automaker will make the case that its EV and self-driving technology strategy deserves a higher value.

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