Sara Blakely founded Spanx Inc. in 2000 with $5,000 of her personal savings earned from selling fax machines door-to-door. She just struck a deal with Blackstone Inc. that values the company at $1.2 billion.
(Bloomberg) -- Activist investor Carl Icahn is ratcheting up the pressure on Southwest Gas Holdings Inc., calling on the utility company to sell its Centuri Group construction business and repeating calls to abandon its recent pipeline deal.
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Saudi Arabia’s stock exchange is in talks with venture capital investors and technology firms in order to recast its small-cap market as a hub for the Middle East’s burgeoning startup industry, according to people familiar with the matter.
Russia is becoming increasingly concerned that surging gas prices risk demand-destruction in its biggest export market.
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