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Goldman to get $180 million fees with Toshiba deal

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is poised to receive $180 million in fees for managing Toshiba Corp.’s emergency share sale, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The US firm is arranging the 600 billion yen private placement of new shares for loss-making Toshiba, which faces a March deadline from Tokyo’s exchange to reverse its negative equity or ...

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Uber’s hacking mess another setback to turnaround effort

Bloomberg The appointment of Dara Khosrowshahi as head of Uber Technologies Inc. this summer was supposed to mark the beginning of a new chapter. The company had been racing from one disaster to the next, leading to boycotts, lawsuits, criminal probes, an executive exodus and an investor-led mutiny against the co-founder. Somehow, the new chief executive officer keeps finding more ...

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Black Friday sales gain importance in UK

Bloomberg As UK consumers start to suffer from Brexit jitters, British retailers have extended the Black Friday discounts they borrowed from America over as much as two weeks to lure wary shoppers online and in stores. They need a push. The slide in the pound after the UK’s vote to leave the European Union has driven up the cost of ...

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