For SoftBank Group Corp Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son, selling a stake in Arm, the British semiconductor firm that kicked off his tech spending splurge, cannot have been part of the plan. At least, not yet. When SoftBank agreed to buy the Cambridge, England-based firm for 24 billion pounds ($32 billion) four years ago, the expectation was that it wouldn’t ...

About two months after Moderna Therapeutics Inc released preliminary Covid-19 vaccine data that sent the stock market into a tizzy, the company published a complete look at the initial human trial of its drug — and it promptly moved the market again. Moderna shares surged 20% on the results in after-market trading, and stocks in general got a loft as ...

Bloomberg Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd announced a 1.2 billion-pound ($1.5 billion) rescue in a major victory for Richard Branson, who snatched his UK airline from the brink of failure under the weight of the coronavirus crisis. US hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management will provide about 170 million pounds in secured financing, according to a statement, while Branson will contribute ...