Maureen Farrell

New York

Finance Reporter at The New York Times

New York Times finance reporter and coauthor of The Cult of We. Formerly WSJ. Send me your tips! Signal: 718-715-5209

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Articles

Yale's Endowment Selling Private Equity Stakes as Trump Targets Ivies

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Maureen Farrell |Lauren Hirsch

The university is selling multiple stakes in private-equity funds as the industry struggles and Trump targets Ivy-League Institutions. Yale University's famed endowment has been trying to offload one of the largest portfolios of private equity investments ever in a single sale, a move that reflects the pressures on both Wall Street and higher education under the Trump administration.
Wall Street está apostando tudo para lurar com a IA. Mas será uma nova bolha?

2 weeks ago | einvestidor.estadao.com.br | Maureen Farrell

Williams, que havia assumido o negócio da família, que incluía concessionárias de automóveis e fornecedores de móveis para escritório, usou o terreno, em 2003, para construir seu primeiro data center, um grande galpão retangular abrigando computadores potentes. Mais de duas décadas depois, a empresa fundada por Williams, a Quality Technology Services (QTS), está no centro de uma das maiores apostas de Wall Street: a corrida para lucrar com a IA.
Wall Street is all in on AI data centers. But are they the next bubble?

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Maureen Farrell

Artificial intelligence still seemed the stuff of science fiction when a real estate developer named Chad Williams bought a plot of land, roughly half the size of a football field, in Overland Park, Kansas. Williams, who had taken over his family’s business of car lots and office furniture suppliers, used the land in 2003 to build his first data center, a big, boxy warehouse housing powerful computers.
The Future of Africa Command

3 weeks ago | aei.org | Maureen Farrell |Jennifer Kavanagh |Benjamin W Friedman

The Trump administration is making changes to U.S. policy toward Africa. These changes — including dissolving the U.S. Agency for International Development and its programs in Africa — have direct and indirect impacts on U.S. Africa Command. The administration’s foreign policy, combined with shifting security challenges in Africa, are reigniting debate about whether the United States needs a military command devoted to Africa and how it should be organized.
Are A.I. Data Centers a Sure Thing or the Next Real Estate Bubble?

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Maureen Farrell

Private equity firms like Blackstone are using their clients' money to buy and build data centers to fuel the artificial intelligence boom. Artificial intelligence still seemed the stuff of science fiction when a real estate developer named Chad Williams bought a plot of land, roughly half the size of a football field, in Overland Park, Kan.
Wall Street’s Riskiest Stock Deals Are Back, With a Trump Bump

1 month ago | rethinking65.com | Maureen Farrell

Celebrity endorsements, companies with no clear plans, investors left feeling burned: The pandemic-era boom in risky investments called SPACs was an investment craze many would surely like to forget. Well, it’s back. There has been a flurry of SPAC deals announced in the past month, and the most sought-after ones involve people in President Donald Trump’s orbit or investments close to his heart. One is being pitched by key executives from Trump Media & Technology Group.
The 'Sell America' Trade Makes a Comeback

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Andrew Ross Sorkin |Edmund Lee |Bernhard Warner |Sarah Kessler |Lauren Hirsch |Maureen Farrell

The "sell America" trade is back in focus on Monday. Investors are bracing for a triple threat of an inflationary trade war, President Trump's tax cut plan swelling the federal deficit, and fallout from Moody's cutting America's triple-A credit rating. That adds pressure on the White House to make trade deals, and on House Speaker Mike Johnson to win over Republican fiscal hawks to make Trump's big campaign vow - permanent tax cuts - a reality.
How Warren Buffett Changed the Way Investors Think of Investing

1 month ago | rethinking65.com | Maureen Farrell

Warren Buffett’s approach to investing is deceptively simple. “Forget what you know about buying fair businesses at wonderful prices; instead, buy wonderful businesses at fair prices,” he once wrote to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, his business conglomerate. This method — known as value investing — had existed long before Buffett, now 94, began his career. But no one did it as well — or for as long — as he did.
How Warren Buffett changed the way we think of investing

1 month ago | straitstimes.com | Maureen Farrell |Lauren Hirsch

NEW YORK - As Warren Buffett, 94, called an end to his historic run atop Berkshire Hathaway, Wall Street luminaries rushed to praise the man whose extraordinary investment career spanned more than 80 years (he bought his first shares when he was 11). The famed investor delivered a more than 5,500,000 per cent return on Berkshire’s stock as he turned a once-failing textile firm into the most valuable company in the world that isn’t either a tech giant or state oil producer.
How Warren Buffett Changed the Way Investors Think of Investing

1 month ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Maureen Farrell |Lauren Hirsch

Share Warren E. Buffett’s approach to investing is deceptively simple.“Forget what you know about buying fair businesses at wonderful prices; instead, buy wonderful businesses at fair prices,” he once wrote to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, his business conglomerate.This method — known as value investing — had existed long before Mr. Buffett, now 94, began his career. But no one did it as well — or for as long — as he did.