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Snoop Dogg takes over Death Row Records brand as owner -
Friday, February 11, 2022
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Snoop Dogg has taken over a popular record label that launched his stellar career.
The rapper-mogul acquired Death Row Records' brand from MNRK Music Group, which is controlled by a private equity fund managed by Blackstone, the i nvestment firm announced Wednesday. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Pinnacles rates No. 6 on women’s workplace list -
Friday, September 24, 2021
Nashville’s Pinnacle Financial Partners remains one of the nation’s Best Large Workplaces for Women, earning the No. 6 spot on the latest list from Fortune magazine and Great Place to Work.
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In a hot market, companies compete with would-be homeowners -
Friday, September 10, 2021
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Soaring home prices and rents are fueling real estate companies' appetite for houses, adding unwelcome competition for many would-be homebuyers.
Residential real estate bought by companies or institutions hit an all-time high of 67,943 properties in the second quarter, according to Redfin, a Seattle-based online brokerage.
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Collectible prices skyrocket, to the dismay of hobbyists -
Friday, September 3, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans have become obsessed with collectibles, bidding up prices for trading cards, video games and other mementos of their youth. The frenzy has brought small fortunes to some, but a deep frustration for those who still love to play games or trade cards as a hobby.
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Oat milk maker Oatly to raise $1.4 billion in public debut -
Friday, May 21, 2021
Oatly, the world's largest oat milk company, will raise $1.4 billion in an initial public offering Thursday on the Nasdaq stock exchange, capitalizing on a global surge in demand for its products.
Oatly priced its shares at $17 apiece ahead of the IPO, giving the company a valuation of nearly $10 billion. It will trade under the ticker symbol "OTLY."
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Department store chain Belk filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy -
Friday, January 22, 2021
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Belk, the North Carolina-based department store chain which has catered to generations of shoppers for nearly 190 years, announced Tuesday that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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UnitedHealth paying nearly $8B for Nashville's technology company Change -
Friday, January 1, 2021
UnitedHealth Group will spend nearly $8 billion in cash to add a health care technology company to its growing Optum business.
UnitedHealth said Wednesday that it will add Change Healthcare to its OptumInsight segment and boost its ability to provide data analytics and revenue cycle management support, among other offerings.
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Senator asks for ethics review of his stock sales -
Friday, March 20, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., is asking for an ethics review after coming under criticism for selling off as much as $1.7 million in stocks just before the market dropped in February amid coronavirus fears.
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Top Middle Tennessee commercial sales for February 2020 -
Friday, March 20, 2020
Top commercial real estate sales, February 2020, for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.
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Top Middle Tennessee residential sales for January 2020 -
Friday, February 21, 2020
Top residential real estate sales, January 2020, for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.
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Warren pitches new constraints on private equity -
Friday, July 19, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House hopeful Elizabeth Warren is proposing new regulations on the private equity industry, pitching constraints designed to end what she decries as "legalized looting" by investment firms that take over troubled companies.
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Heinrichs named president at Tennessee Bank & Trust -
Friday, June 14, 2019
Brian Heinrichs has been named president and chief banking officer of Tennessee Bank & Trust, effective July 1. Dan Andrews, Jr. will continue in his position as chairman and chief executive officer.
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Saudi investment forum opens, clouded by writer's death -
Friday, October 19, 2018
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A high-profile economic forum in Saudi Arabia began on Tuesday in Riyadh, with the crown prince making a brief public appearance at the kingdom's first major event since the killing of writer Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul earlier this month.
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Michael Kors ups the glamour, buys Versace for $2B -
Friday, September 21, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Kors is buying the Italian fashion house Versace in a deal worth more than $2 billion (1.83 billion euros), continuing its hard charge into the world of high-end fashion.
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Top Middle Tennessee residential sales for August 2018 -
Friday, September 21, 2018
Top residential real estate sales, August 2018, for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.
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Mystery: Who bought websites implying US senators 'for sale' -
Friday, July 20, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of web addresses implying U.S. senators were "for sale" have been quietly and mysteriously purchased online, amid heightened concerns on Capitol Hill that foreign agents — especially Russians — might be trying to meddle in upcoming midterm elections.
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When your job is what you love ... -
Friday, July 13, 2018
So many amazing and innovative things began in a garage. Grunge music. The Apple computer. Disney. Amazon. And 20 years ago, the beginnings of Nashville’s now-exploding brewery scene.
When Carl Meier moved to Nashville in 1999 from upstate New York, his wife was working on her master’s degree at Vanderbilt, leaving him with some time on his hands. With her encouragement, he joined a local homebrew club, the Music City Brewers, to meet some new friends who shared his love for home brewing.
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US stocks close modestly higher, add to gains from last week -
Friday, May 4, 2018
U.S. stocks closed modestly higher Monday, extending the market's gains from last week.
Technology companies and banks accounted for much of the latest gains, outweighing losses among beverage makers and other consumer goods companies.
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Castañeda appointed to oversight commission -
Friday, March 9, 2018
Tennessee Lieutenant Governor Randy McNally recently appointed Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorney Rebecca McKelvey Castañeda to the Tennessee Post-Conviction Defender Oversight Commission. She will serve a one-year term.
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Middle Tennessee's $1M-plus residential transactions for 2017 -
Friday, January 26, 2018
There were 690 commercial real estate transactions worth $1 million or more in Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Sumner and Wilson counties in 2017, according to Chandler Reports.
Davidson County had the most with 333, followed by Williamson (152), Rutherford (104), Sumner (51) and Wilson (50).
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Business execs shunned Trump panels before he disbanded them -
Friday, August 11, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump had pushed many of America's top corporate leaders to the breaking point with his inability to decisively condemn white supremacists — so they huddled on an 11:30 a.m. conference call Wednesday.
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Trump increasingly isolated as business panels dismantled -
Friday, August 11, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — With corporate chieftains fleeing, President Donald Trump abruptly abolished two of his White House business councils, an attempt to manage his increasing isolation and the continued fallout from his combative comments on racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Top Midstate commercial transactions for second quarter 2017 -
Friday, July 28, 2017
Top commercial real estate sales, second quarter 2017, for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.
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Baker Donelson selects new managing shareholder -
Friday, June 2, 2017
Brigid M. Carpenter has been named managing shareholder for the Nashville office of Baker Donelson, making her the first woman to serve in this position. She assumes the role previously held by Scott D. Carey for eight years.
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Top Middle Tennessee commercial transactions for April 2017 -
Friday, May 19, 2017
Top commercial real estate sales, April 2017, for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.
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Reports: Fox News owner joins race to buy Tribune media -
Friday, April 28, 2017
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News owner 21st Century Fox and a New York investment firm are in talks to buy TV station operator Tribune Media, according to several reports.
A successful bid would keep Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., another TV station operator that is also reportedly pursuing the company, from snatching up Tribune. Blackstone, a private equity firm, is said to be putting cash toward creating a joint venture, while 21st Century Fox would contribute some TV stations, according to the reports.
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Technology companies and banks take stocks higher -
Friday, April 28, 2017
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose Monday as big technology companies like Apple continued to rally. Investors bought stocks and sold bonds and gold after Congress agreed to a deal that will keep the government operating for the rest of the fiscal year.
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Trump meets with his business council after Uber CEO quit -
Friday, February 3, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump met with 17 business titans Friday at the White House, and some in attendance had planned to press him on his executive order upending the country's refugee program.
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Uber CEO backs out of joining Trump's business council -
Friday, February 3, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has quit President Donald Trump's council of business leaders, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.
Kalanick wrote to his employees that he'd spoken with Trump on Thursday to "let him know that I would not be able to participate on his economic council. Joining the group was not meant to be an endorsement of the president or his agenda but unfortunately it has been misinterpreted to be exactly that."
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Events -
Friday, March 4, 2016
Real Estate Investors Network. How to Buy Real Estate Through Your IRA. 6 p.m., REIN Center, 4525 Harding Rd, Nashville. Information: www.reintn.org. Additional March opportunities:
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Top Middle Tennessee residential real estate transactions for September 2015 -
Friday, November 6, 2015
Top residential real estate sales, September 2015, for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.
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Why homebuyers face a tough spring -
Friday, May 8, 2015
Eager to buy your first home this spring? Already own, but want to trade up? Be warned: there'll be plenty of competition.
Bidding wars have broken out in hot real-estate markets like Denver and Los Angeles, where there aren't enough houses to meet demand. The lack of supply is a key reason home sales nationwide have yet to return to healthy levels following the housing collapse in 2008.
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Top commercial real estate transactions March 1, 2014-March 1, 2015 -
Friday, March 6, 2015
Top commercial real estate transactions, March 1, 2014-March 1, 2015, for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.
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Top November 2014 commercial real estate transactions -
Friday, January 2, 2015
Top November 2014 commercial real estate transactions for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.
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Nashville School of Law adds Hudson to faculty -
Friday, December 26, 2014
Nashville School of Law has appointed noted author and scholar David Hudson as director of academic affairs and legal writing and as a faculty member.
Hudson will also serve as the First Amendment ombudsman for the Newseum Institute’s First Amendment Center, reflecting a new bridge between the organizations that will stimulate analysis and study of evolving First Amendment issues.
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Top Midstate commercial real estate transactions for 2013 -
Friday, January 24, 2014
Top 2013 commercial real estate transactions for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.
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Hilton Worldwide plans to raise $1.25B from IPO -
Friday, September 6, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Hotel operator Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. plans to raise $1.25 billion from an initial public offering of its common stock.
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Events -
Friday, August 16, 2013
Free Legal Clinic: The Lipscomb University Institute for Law, Justice and Society is hosting a free legal advice clinic in Lipscomb University’s Swang Chapel in the Ezell Center, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Six volunteer attorneys will be available to meet with clients and discuss legal problems, answer questions, explain legal rights or review legal documents. The public can come to the clinic with questions on immigration, conflict disputes, debt issues, inheritance or tax issues, or any other type of simple legal matter. Clients should bring any papers that deal with the problem. Lawyers may only have 10 to 15 minutes to talk to each person. They will not be available to take on cases presented by clients at the clinic, and they won’t be able to go to court with clients from the clinic. Free parking is available on campus, and the Lipscomb University campus has a Metro bus stop on Belmont Boulevard, at the softball field entrance adjacent to the Ezell Center. Information: spivey@lipscomb.edu, 966-2503.
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Dell delays buyout vote, signaling lack of support -
Friday, July 19, 2013
ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) — Michael Dell believes he can revive the company bearing his name if his group of investors can buy it for $24.4 billion. But that deal is in danger of falling apart, increasing the chances that the personal computer giant's founder might not be CEO much longer.
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Dell delays vote on buyout in sign it lacks support -
Friday, July 12, 2013
ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) — Dell has delayed Thursday's vote on founder Michael Dell's plan to take the slumping computer maker private in a sign the board needs more time to rally support.
Dell called a special shareholders meeting to order, then quickly adjourned it without a formal vote of the $24.4 billion buyout offer from Michael Dell and a group led by investment firm Silver Lake. It was rescheduled for July 24 at the company's headquarters in Round Rock, Texas.
41. Shareholders voting on $24.4 billion Dell buyout - Friday, July 12, 2013
DALLAS (AP) — Dell Inc. is making a late push to win shareholder support for founder Michael Dell's plan to take the slumping computer maker private, an indication that Thursday's scheduled vote could be close.
42. Moving from big firm to small has its perks - Friday, June 21, 2013
In February, Joe Goodman said goodbye to a top-floor, corner office at a downtown law firm, and headed up Broadway to markedly less-opulent quarters overlooking the railroad gulch.
At the big firm, Goodman had a secretary to handle all his dictation and errands.
43. Icahn, Southeastern challenge Dell takeover plan - Friday, May 10, 2013
Dell's largest independent shareholder has teamed with activist investor Carl Icahn in another challenge to founder Michael Dell's $24.4 billion bid to take the struggling computer maker private.
Southeastern Asset Management and Icahn said in a letter sent Thursday to the Dell Inc. board that they want to let shareholders keep their stock and give them either $12 per share in cash or additional shares in a deal that keeps the company publicly traded. They said this would give shareholders a stake in future gains made by the Round Rock, Texas, company.
44. Blackstone drops out of race to buy Dell - Friday, April 19, 2013
Buyout specialist Blackstone Group LP is dropping its effort to acquire Dell as the computer maker faces slumping sales in personal computers and worsening financial projections.
Blackstone and its partners said that because of those challenges, which surfaced after their bid was submitted last month, they have dropped a plan to buy most of Dell's outstanding stock for $14.25 per share. A letter from the group to a special committee of Dell board members was dated Thursday and disclosed Friday.
45. Stocks recover slightly, ending tough week - Friday, April 19, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Strong earnings from a pair of technology giants helped the stock market recover some of its losses Friday, a positive end to Wall Street's worst week in five months.
Microsoft and Google both beat earnings expectations, yields of government bonds ticked up and copper — a key industrial metal — continued its fall, losing 2 percent.
46. Dell, Icahn agree on a share ownership cap - Friday, April 12, 2013
Dell Inc. and Carl Icahn have agreed to cap his stake in the personal computer maker while the panel considers competing takeover bids from the billionaire investor, a group led by CEO Michael Dell and buyout specialist Blackstone Group.
47. Major Dell shareholder favors recent buyout offers - Friday, April 5, 2013
MEMPHIS (AP) — A major Dell shareholder is urging the slumping personal computer maker's board to scrap a $24.4 billion deal to sell the company to a group including CEO Michael Dell and pursue two competing bids instead.
48. Dell drama takes new twist with 2 new buyout bids - Friday, March 22, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The two new suitors pursuing Dell have a message for Wall Street: Don't allow Michael Dell to hoard potential gains from the PC maker's expansion into more profitable technology products and services.
49. US stocks fall on broad concern about Europe - Friday, March 22, 2013
Stocks reversed an early rise on Wall Street Monday as traders returned to worrying about the European economy.
Optimism about a deal to prevent financial collapse in Cyprus had briefly pushed the Standard & Poor's 500 index to within a quarter-point of its record closing high, but stocks soon turned negative.
50. Deal to sell Dell may be about to face competition - Friday, March 22, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Is Michael Dell's attempt to gain more control over his company about to turn into a financial tug-of-war?
The answer could come Friday. That's the end of a 45-day period that Dell Inc.'s board of directors set to allow for offers that might top a Feb. 5 deal to sell the personal computer maker to CEO Michael Dell and a group of investors for $24.4 billion.
51. Dow leaps 286 points, best day of the year - Friday, June 1, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow Jones industrial average surged 286 points Wednesday, its best day this year.
The rally started early and gathered force in the afternoon. The charge turned the Dow positive for 2012 and erased the biggest loss of the year less than a week after it happened: the 275-point plunge set off by a dismal U.S. jobs report on Friday.
52. A rare gain for the Dow on hopes for China growth - Friday, May 25, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market is desperately looking for good news.
On Tuesday, oil prices fell, the euro sank to a 22-month low, and the yield on the U.S. government's 10-year Treasury note fell near a historic low after a report suggested that Spain will have more trouble repaying its debts.
53. Chinese company to buy US movie theater chain AMC - Friday, May 18, 2012
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China's biggest corporate takeover in the United States to date.
54. Emdeon to be taken private by Blackstone for $2.2B - Friday, August 5, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — Health care payment technology company Emdeon Inc. has agreed to be taken private by The Blackstone Group for about $2.2 billion.
The deal disclosed Thursday would give Blackstone Capital Partners VI LP a controlling interest in Emdeon, but the announcement says shareholder Hellman & Friedman will keep a "significant" minority equity interest.
55. Emdeon to be taken private by Blackstone for $2.2B - Friday, July 29, 2011
NASHVILLE (AP) — Health care payment technology company Emdeon Inc. has agreed to be taken private by The Blackstone Group for about $2.2 billion.