Leadership
CEO Exits Fall 26% as Firms Cut Management Layers Instead
Boards are keeping chief executives in place while companies strip out the management tier beneath them, new turnover and workforce data show.
Lena Fischer · August 18, 2026
Business News
Company news across retail, food, leisure and consumer goods: results and guidance, mergers, disposals, closure programs and job cuts. Entries include the figures a company disclosed and the ones analysts asked about. Built for investors, suppliers and competitors needing the development and its arithmetic together.
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Why Companies Go Private in Leveraged Buyouts
An LBO buys a public company with its own borrowed future cash flow — the arithmetic works when debt is cheap, the business is stable, and the exit door is open.
Lena Fischer · August 10, 2026
Business News
Core CPI Climbed 2.5% in July, Excluding Food and Fuel
Core inflation strips out food and energy to track the underlying trend. Here is what it measures, how it differs from headline CPI, and why the Federal Reserve tracks a different index entirely.
Lena Fischer · August 10, 2026
Business News
Dividend Yield vs. Dividend Growth
The yield tells you what the stock pays now; the growth rate tells you what it will pay later — and the second number decides whether a high yield is income or a trap.
Lena Fischer · July 18, 2026
Business News
What Poison Pill Defenses Do
A poison pill lets all shareholders but the raider buy stock at a discount — diluting an acquirer past the point of economics without a single court filing.
Lena Fischer · June 25, 2026