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What you need to know on Wall Street right now
Finance Insider is Business Insider's midday summary of the top stories of the past 24 hours.
There has been a lot of news in the investment world in the past 24 hours, so let's dive right in:
- Warren Buffett is investing billions into an industry he once called a "death trap"
- SoftBank is buying Fortress for $3.3 billion
- Billionaire investor Nelson Peltz took a huge stake in Procter & Gamble
- GM's management is facing a nightmare scenario with David Einhorn
- David Einhorn dumped all $143.5 million of his Michael Kors investment
- David Tepper's Appaloosa dropped about $1 billion on 4 pharma stocks
- Billionaire Chase Coleman's Tiger Global made a nearly $500 million bet on Fiat
- Izzy Englander's $35 billion hedge fund made a big bet on Target
- A $20 billion investment firm dumped its huge trade in Apple — and bet on Alphabet and Microsoft
- A $14 billion hedge fund is sounding the alarm on distress in the retail sector
- Morgan Stanley's global head of stock trading just quit to join a $35 billion hedge fund
- Morgan Stanley's top US equity strategist is leaving the bank for a quant shop
- A big Massachusetts pension has yanked its money from one of the hedge fund industry's struggling titans
- Warren Buffett just dropped Walmart and signaled the death of retail as we know it
In bank news, Goldman Sachs just announced a big promotion in its new online business, and is investing $95 million in ad firm MDC Partners.
- Fed’s Yellen speaks out against Trump's Wall Street deregulation push
- Yellen wants to leave the Fed's balance sheet alone for now
- Asked about Trump's immigration plans, Janet Yellen says "slowing immigration would slow economic growth"
There is a bunch of news in the healthcare sector, too. Here's what you need to know:
- The Trump administration just proposed massive changes to Obamacare
- One of the US's largest health-insurance companies is dumping Obamacare; Trump says law "continues to fail"
- Cigna is suing Anthem for $13 billion after walking away from their merger
- AETNA CEO: The Obamacare exchanges are in a "death spiral"
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One of Wall Street's top equity analysts reveals his biggest fear for 2017 - Business Insider asked the Head of US equity strategy at JP Morgan what keeps him up at night.
Verizon is reportedly close to a revised deal that cuts Yahoo's price by about $250 million - Verizon has tentatively reached a revised deal with Yahoo, according to Bloomberg.