stock raising

The payments came as Berkshire last month bought about $246 million in Occidental stock, raising its stake to 25.8%.

After making a promise on Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sold about 4.5 million shares of the electric car maker’s stock, raising over $5 billion.

His Senate counterpart, Ron Wyden of Oregon, and other liberal lawmakers have maintained a steady fanfare of suggested tax proposals, including taxing corporations that buy back stock, raising taxes on multinational corporations and carrying out changes to the estate and capital gains taxes.

On the one hand, they saw an opportunity for the companies to issue more shares of their stock, raising tons of money.

This year, 42 private-equity-backed companies have listed stock, raising about $10 billion.