• A small Wall Street firm is crushing it in dealmaking (EVR)

    A small Wall Street firm is crushing it in dealmaking (EVR)
    Evercore is set to finish 2016 with Wall Street bragging rights. 
    The small firm is on course to finish the year top as the No.1 boutique investment bank in M&A, according to Dealogic. It ranks 11 overall.
    It has been a big year for the firm. It landed roles on two of the biggest deals of the year: Qualcomm's $47 billion deal for NXP, and CenturyLink's $33.7 billion deal for Level 3. It hired John Weinberg, part of a Goldman Sachs dynasty, to be executive chairman. And th
  • 2017 will be Tesla's biggest year ever — here's what's in store for the company (TSLA)

    2017 will be Tesla's biggest year ever — here's what's in store for the company (TSLA)
    Tesla started 2016 as an electric-car maker that had branched out into energy storage.
    By the end of the year, Elon Musk's company has become an automaker, an energy company, the builder of a massive battery factory in Nevada, and a solar company through its merger with SolarCity.
    Tesla is also on track to delivery about 80,000 vehicles in 2016, more than ever before.
    So it was a big year. But 2017 will be even bigger.
    Here are the major things that Tesla has in store:
    The launch of the Model 3
  • RAY DALIO ON TRUMP: 'If you haven’t read Ayn Rand lately, I suggest that you do'

    RAY DALIO ON TRUMP: 'If you haven’t read Ayn Rand lately, I suggest that you do'
    Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world's biggest hedge fund firm, says people should expect a major shift under President-elect Donald Trump.
    "Regarding economics, if you haven’t read Ayn Rand lately, I suggest that you do as her books pretty well capture the mindset," he wrote in a LinkedIn post on Monday. "This new administration hates weak, unproductive, socialist people and policies, and it admires strong, can-do, profit makers."
    The post continued:
    "It wants
  • A 'virtuous cycle' could boost emerging markets in 2017

    A 'virtuous cycle' could boost emerging markets in 2017
    Emerging markets as an asset class is high risk for many investors, who trade in higher volatility for the chance for greater rewards.
    After several years of emerging markets underperformance, investors are looking for evidence of solid global growth, signs of an earnings recovery, and a gradual tightening of monetary policy by the Fed, according to James Donald, the Head of Emerging Markets at Lazard. 
    Analysts at Credit Suisse agree that the performance of emerging market asset prices in
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