Bayer CEO Bill Anderson Faces Pressure to Improve Financial Performance

Bayer CEO Bill Anderson Faces Pressure to Improve Financial Performance

Bill Anderson The new Bayer boss is under pressure to deliver significantly better numbers again in 2024. (Photo: Reuters) Düsseldorf The first fiscal year of the new Bayer boss Bill Anderson will be an unusually bad one for the pharmaceutical company: the net debt will rise again significantly to 36 billion euros by the end … Read more

Rising Bankruptcies: Companies Struggle to Survive Insolvency Proceedings

Rising Bankruptcies: Companies Struggle to Survive Insolvency Proceedings

Reno, Staples, Windeln.de After filing for bankruptcy, more and more companies are threatened with the final end. (Photo: dpa (2), Imago) Düsseldorf More and more companies have to finally shut down operations in insolvency proceedings. Of the 227 large companies that became insolvent in 2022 and filed for bankruptcy, only 42.9 percent could be saved … Read more

Warren Buffett, prominent investor, steps in amidst SVB bankruptcy causing banking crisis.

Warren Buffett, prominent investor, steps in amidst SVB bankruptcy causing banking crisis.

Warren Buffett The star investor had already become active during the 2008 financial crisis. (Photo: AP) Denver Bankers, regulators and government officials have been dealing with a central question for days: How can trust in the US banking system be restored after the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) went bankrupt? Star investor Warren Buffett is apparently … Read more

Credit Suisse’s future remains uncertain amidst ailing conditions.

Credit Suisse’s future remains uncertain amidst ailing conditions.

ZURICH/BERN According to media reports, the Swiss supervisory authorities are urging UBS to take over its smaller local rival. State guarantees are a prerequisite for a deal that will be frantically negotiated over the weekend. The Swiss government in Bern should issue a guarantee to cover the risks associated with the takeover, it said. The … Read more

Dealmaker in New York is leaving Deutsche Bank

Dealmaker in New York is leaving Deutsche Bank

– Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt Drew Goldman was most recently Global Head of Investment Banking Coverage and Advisory at Deutsche Bank in New York. Now the most important dealmaker wants to face new challenges. – (Photo: dpa) – – – – New York Deutsche Bank’s top dealmaker in New York, Drew Goldman, resigns. His … Read more

US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Musk’s big deal on Twitter

US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Musk’s big deal on Twitter

– Elon Musk The Twitter takeover is in danger of failing – maybe that’s fine with the Tesla boss. – (Photo: Reuters) – – – – Washington The US Securities and Exchange Commission has scrutinized the entry of tech billionaire Elon Musk as a major investor on Twitter. The authority asked the Tesla boss on … Read more

Siemens Energy withdraws from hydropower JV with Voith

Siemens Energy withdraws from hydropower JV with Voith

– Siemens Energy plant in Mülheim-Ruhr Siemens Energy announced on Friday that it had agreed not to disclose the purchase price for 35 percent of the shares in the specialist for hydroelectric power station generators. – (Photo: imago images/Udo Gottschalk) – – – – Düsseldorf The energy technology group Siemens Energy is withdrawing from the … Read more

Third stock market debut for “Die Höhle der Löwen” judge Georg Kofler

Third stock market debut for “Die Höhle der Löwen” judge Georg Kofler

Georg Kofler (left) and Ralf Dümmel in front of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange Kofler is the chairman of the supervisory board and the largest shareholder in Social Chain AG, while Dümmel will be responsible for products, purchasing and sales on the board of directors. – – – – – Düsseldorf On Friday morning Georg Kofler … Read more

Rumors of an expensive US takeover of Hartford

Rumors of an expensive US takeover of Hartford

– Allianz According to insiders, however, the purchase is unlikely. – (Photo: Reuters) – – – – Munich A few days after the takeover of the Polish business from the British competitor Aviva, there is speculation at Allianz about a mega takeover. According to rumors, Europe’s largest insurer is currently exploring an offer for the … Read more

Richard Branson IPOs Virgin Orbit

Richard Branson IPOs Virgin Orbit

– Virgin Orbit A modified Boeing 747 carries Virgin Orbit’s “LauncherOne” rocket. – (Photo: Reuters) – – – – Bangalore The British billionaire Richard Branson brings another company from his corporate universe to the stock exchange. The space company Virgin Orbit is to be placed via an investment vehicle and come to a market value … Read more