DealBook Briefing: Corporate Taxes, Musk vs. Buffett, and Will Fox Strike a Deal?

  • 7 years ago
DealBook Briefing: Corporate Taxes, Musk vs. Buffett, and Will Fox Strike a Deal?
The whole point of capital markets is to recycle resources into the most profitable new opportunities, and
that may or may not involve the companies that initially earned those profits.”
The main point of Mr. Cowen’s column: “If those funds are not taken out of the financial system
and used to fund consumption, the real quantity of investment in the economy should rise.”
With 95 percent of S&P 500 companies having reported third-quarter results, earnings
are on pace to grow 6.2 percent from a year earlier, according to FactSet.
“The only outfit right now that has a chance of overtaking them would be Amazon.”
• Mr. Malone asserted that at least four big telecom companies — including Verizon, SoftBank (through Sprint)
and Altice — had approached him about buying or partnering with Charter Communications, which he controls.
The big issue: As Amol Sharma and Lukas Alpert of the WSJ point out,
Across the industry, digital-media companies are finding
that lines of business that caught fire for them early on — like creating custom content for brands — are becoming harder to scale up.
A stronger American dollar, a pickup in the United State’s economy,
and the Trump administration’s policies were expected to benefit companies with the greatest exposure to United States were expected to benefit more from the Trump administration’s policies, and a stronger dollar.

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