(Bloomberg) -- Americans hurt by the coronavirus pandemic are skipping home-loan payments, and the trusts that own the mortgages are feeling the pain.Opportunistic funds have noticed. Among the investors in talks to buy discounted assets in the distressed real estate investment trusts are Paul Singer’s Elliott Management Corp. and Appaloosa Management, run by David Tepper, according to people involved in the deals who asked not to be identified discussing private transactions. Apollo Global M...

Carnival Corp.’s (CCL) shares climbed 21% after Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), on Monday disclosed an 8.2% stake in coronavirus-hit Carnival Corp.PIF made the offering for Carnival’s 43.5 million shares worth about $369.3 million on March 26, according to the SEC filing. The investment makes PIF the second-largest investor in the world's biggest cruise line.Since the start of the year, Carnival has seen its shares lose more than three-quarters of their...

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The shares of Luckin Coffee Inc. (NASDAQ: LK) dropped another 18% lower on Monday as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) sought enforcement action against an entity controlled by the company's chairman Charles Zhengyao Lu.What Happened The bank, acting as a "disposal agent" on behalf of a host of lenders, said Luckin investor Haode Investment Inc., defaulted on a $518 million margin loan facility.According to Goldman, about 515.3 million Class B and 95.4 million Class A ordinary shares were p...

(Bloomberg) -- Results from a study of Gilead Sciences Inc.’s experimental Covid-19 medicine are top-of-mind for Wall Street as cases surpass 1.35 million and deaths approach 76,000.With a potential vaccine more than a year away, Gilead’s antiviral remdesivir offers one of the nearest-term hopes for a treatment in the pandemic that’s sweeping across the globe and putting many countries, including most of the U.S., on lockdown. Results from late-stage studies out of China are expected this mon...

(Bloomberg) -- Exxon Mobil Corp. is targeting its premier shale assets for deep cuts as it slashes worldwide spending to a four-year low and delays major projects to adapt amid the worst oil-price rout in decades.Exxon will reduce this year’s spending by 30% to $23 billion, the Irving, Texas-based company said in a statement on Tuesday. It will be the second-largest budget cut in the company’s modern history, overshadowed only by 2016, when crude markets last collapsed.The largest share of th...

OPEC and its allies led by Russia meet on Saturday over plans to extend record oil production cuts and to push countries such as Iraq and Nigeria to comply better with existing curbs. Nigeria's oil minister said he expected a deal on an extension, which has the backing of Saudi Arabia and Russia, to be concluded in the video conference talks despite "reservations of one or two member countries," which he did not name. The alliance known as OPEC+ previously agreed to cut supply by a record 9...

The coronavirus pandemic has devastated the US economy, costing 42 million people to file for unemployment insuranceThe coronavirus pandemic has wrought destruction on US workers at a scale and speed that is almost unfathomable. It was only in February that Donald Trump was touting an unemployment level of 3.5%, a 50-year low. The unemployment rate dropped on Friday to 13.3% – but is still at its highest level since the 1980s – and many economists fear the real figure is far higher. Continue ...

Wealthy buyers are snapping up homes at a big discount in Covid-19 crisis after viewings via ZoomSome of the world’s richest people are snapping up luxury London mansions despite the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown – but only if the seller knocks a million or two off the sale price.Estate agents are reporting that rich overseas buyers have spent tens of millions on historic central London properties during the pandemic even though they have often only seen the homes over Zoom video calls. C...

Chipmaker Micron (MU) is banking on the upcoming 5G trend. As 5G networks ramp up around the globe, the semi-conductor player is expected to provide many of the components needed to achieve 5G’s promise; faster data processing, lower latency and expanded storage capacity.However, the catalyst hasn’t borne fruit yet. Micron has lagged behind its peer group this year, unable to fully recover from the COVID slump. Micron’s share price is still roughly flat year-to-date compared to the SOXX’s 9% ...