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Billionaire Bill Ackman ‘thrilled’ to own stake in Bremont Watches

Billionaire Bill Ackman ‘thrilled’ to own stake in Bremont Watches

For billionaire fund manager Bill Ackman, it wasn’t enough to just own a few high-end Bremont watches. He actually wanted a piece of the company. To that end, Britain-based Bremont watches announced today that Bill Ackman took a “substantial minority interest” in the company, joining a funding round with longtime investor Hellcat LP worth $59 million (£48 million). Bremont, founded by brothers Nick and Giles English, was founded in 2002 with the vision of returning watchmaking to… Source link

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Bill Ackman says Fed will fail to bring down inflation, keeping stocks under pressure

Bill Ackman says Fed will fail to bring down inflation, keeping stocks under pressure

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has been urging the Federal Reserve to get serious on inflation since late last year. Now, he has doubts about the U.S. central bank’s ability to bring price stability down to its target. And thinks stock prices could remain under pressure as rates stay high amid this new environment. The Pershing Square Capital founder and CEO said Thursday in a quarterly call with investors that interest rates are “meaningfully below where they are going to… Source link

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Bill Ackman to wind up SPAC, return $4 billion to investors

Bill Ackman to wind up SPAC, return $4 billion to investors

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Anirban Sen and Arunima Kumar NEW YORK (Reuters) -Billionaire investor William Ackman, who had raised $4 billion in the biggest-ever special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), told investors he would be returning the sum after failing to find a suitable target company to take public through a merger. The development is a major setback for the prominent hedge fund manager who had initially planned for the SPAC to take a stake in Universal Music Group last year when… Source link

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Bill Ackman again urges Fed to ‘act decisively to kill inflation’

Bill Ackman again urges Fed to ‘act decisively to kill inflation’

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman reiterated recent calls on Twitter Tuesday morning for the Federal Reserve to intervene aggressively to tame inflation. Ackman’s latest tweet comes a day after a key economic report showed U.S. consumers have the most pessimistic economic outlook in nearly a decade. “Consumer confidence is weak because of inflation, not because of the economy. Jobs are plentiful and the economy is strong,” the Pershing Square founder said in a tweet. “The Source link

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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman says markets are imploding because investors don’t have confidence in the Fed’s ability to stop inflation

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman says markets are imploding because investors don’t have confidence in the Fed’s ability to stop inflation

Bill Ackman is a billionaire investor and hedge fund manager.Elsa/Getty Images Markets aren’t confident that the Federal Reserve can tame record inflation, Bill Ackman tweeted Tuesday. He predicts that inflation can only come down if the Fed aggressively raises rates, or if stocks crash. “It ends when the Fed puts a line in the sand on inflation and says it will do ‘whatever it takes,'” Ackman said. Bill Ackman, the CEO and founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, said markets are facing a… Source link

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Ackman Loses More Than $430 Million on 3-Month Netflix Bet

Ackman Loses More Than $430 Million on 3-Month Netflix Bet

(Bloomberg) — Bill Ackman ditched his stake in Netflix Inc. after losing more than $430 million on his investment in less than three months. Most Read from Bloomberg Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management said Wednesday it had sold its Netflix holdings after the streaming TV pioneer reported an unexpected drop in subscribers in the first quarter and projected an even steeper decline in the current one. Netflix shares tumbled 35% to $226.19 at the close in New York, making it the worst… Source link

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Ackman boosts Netflix, but here’s why one bear thinks ‘the dream is over’

Netflix (NFLX) has been on a wild ride after reporting slowing subscriber growth in the fourth quarter, amid an already crowded streaming landscape.  The stock plunged more than 20% following the results, which showed a relatively weak 8.3 million subscribers in Q4. The platform also forecasted a net add of only 2.5 million subscribers in the current quarter, compared to 3.98 million during the first quarter last year. The streaming giant’s currently trading between a range of $350-$375 per… Source link

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How a millennial’s $57,700 charity lunch with Bill Ackman turned into a $46.5 million IPO

In 2018, entrepreneur-turned-investor Andrew Wilkinson, who runs Victoria, Canada-based tech holding company Tiny, shelled out $57,700 for a charity auction lunch with Bill Ackman, the well-known billionaire activist investor and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management. The $57,700 lunch turned out to be an excellent investment that led to a friendship and, ultimately, a business partnership. Ackman’s family office invested in one of Wilkinson’s portfolio companies, WeCommerce, marking the… Source link

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Bill Ackman Bets Against Market Recovery Again, Despite COVID-19 Vaccine Hopes

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks That Tick all the Boxes It’s been said that gridlock is a feature, not a bug, of the US Constitution, and we may be about to find that out. The election results have left some questions to be resolved, but a few things are coming clear: Democrat Joe Biden is the winner of the Presidential race, but down ballot, the Republicans appear to have made important gains. We’re looking at the prospect of divided government – a Biden Administration with a… Source link

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