Business

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) -Activist investor Elliott Investment Management said Honeywell should split into two separate businesses on Tuesday, following in the footsteps of other industrial conglomerates that have broken up in recent years. Elliott said in a letter that it had built a stake worth more than $5 billion in Honeywell, one of its largest ever, and that management should split the company into two standalone businesses focused on aerospace and automation. Shares were … Read more…

(Reuters) -Morgan Stanley’s private equity arm is selling its heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) business Sila Services, about three years after it invested in the company to take advantage of the growing interest in the sector. Pennsylvania-based Sila will be sold to the private equity unit of Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Morgan Stanley said on Monday, but did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. Reuters had reported in September that a transaction could … Read more…

By Greg Bensinger (Reuters) – Amazon is developing smart eyeglasses for its delivery drivers to guide them to, around and within buildings, as it tries to smooth the final stretch of an order’s journey to a customer’s home, five people familiar with the matter said. If successful, the glasses would provide drivers with turn-by-turn navigation on a small embedded screen, along their routes and at each stop, according to the people, who spoke to Reuters … Read more…

(Reuters) – Boeing is exploring a possible $6 billion sale of its Jeppesen navigation unit, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The planemaker is working with an adviser on the potential sale of the unit, which provides interactive flight plans, the report said. Suitors are already circling Jeppesen, which could attract sizable interest from private equity firms as well as other companies and could fetch more than $6 billion, the report said. Boeing did not immediately … Read more…

(Reuters) – Cloud monitoring firm Datadog raised its annual revenue and profit forecasts on Thursday, betting on accelerating demand for its AI-backed cybersecurity products. Shares of the New York City-based company rose 4.1% before paring gains later in volatile trading. “Datadog reported very strong results and guided for further impressive growth, some of it driven by AI applications. Shares are up significantly over the last few weeks as investors had very high expectations, which may … Read more…

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – The maker of Evian spring water, Danone, won the dismissal of a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing it of defrauding consumers with labels that claim the water is “natural” even though it contains microplastics that seep from the bottle. U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin in Chicago said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulation for spring water does not mention microplastics, preempting the plaintiffs’ claim that concealing their presence violates state … Read more…

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators are investigating whether the fees charged by Visa and Mastercard have a negative impact on retailers, an EU document seen by Reuters showed. The European Commission, which enforces EU competition rules, sent questionnaires about both Visa and Mastercard to retailers and payment service providers in September, giving them until October to respond. Visa and Mastercard have long dominated the market for payment cards, prompting complaints … Read more…

(Reuters) – Blackstone Real Estate on Wednesday entered into an agreement to take Retail Opportunity Investments Corp private in an all-cash transaction valued at about $4 billion, including debt. Reuters reported on Sunday that the alternative asset manager was in advanced talks for the acquisition of the company, which owns strip malls across the United States. Owners of strip malls, pharmacy chains and retail stores have managed to pass on increased costs from high inflation … Read more…

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday upheld a jury’s verdict clearing Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his company of liability over allegations they misled investors when the billionaire posted on social media in 2018 that he had “funding secured” to take the electric car company private. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected arguments by lawyers for Tesla investors that the instructions jurors received on the law … Read more…