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Are M&A Deal Parties Turning Away from Reps & Warranties Insurance? 

Private Equity Professional

After a high-water mark in 2021, a year when buyers often needed to find ways to sweeten their bids in a very competitive M&A landscape, RWI has been purchased on fewer deals each year. a huge increase in post-closing indemnification claims for breach of the no undisclosed liabilities seller representation [8] ).

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Alphabet (GOOGL) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

Advertisers who use profit optimization and Smart Bidding see a 15% uplift in profit on average compared to revenue-only bidding. In just six months, AI-driven improvements to quality, relevance and language understanding have improved broad match performance by 10% for advertisers using Smart Bidding.

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Outbrain (OB) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

Our focus has been on enabling greater automation of workloads and bidding strategies through AI. I also sit at the core of our prediction engine and corresponding automated bidding technology. This impact was primarily a result of this partners transitioning from their legacy bidding platform.

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Commercial Metals (CMC) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

Returning to our third quarter results, CMC's reported net earnings of 119.4 and a trailing EBITDA return on invested capital of 11.3%. We continue to see a good pipeline of future construction projects coming to the market, as measured by bidding activity within our downstream operations. million, or $1.02

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Outbrain (OB) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

We believe that Azure Solutions will allow us to continue to enhance our existing creative solutions, prioritizing ad creatives with predicted higher return on investment. As noted in prior quarters, one of our key partners transitioned to new bidding technology and we completed the transition in early May.

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Dutch Pension Funds Send Shockwaves Through Euro Swap Market

Pension Pulse

trillion in assets, are likely bidding up the paper to hedge for growing liabilities, strategists at Citigroup Inc. The bank says liabilities of the ten biggest pension funds have a weighted average duration of around 18 years, so the hedging activity will impact swaps and cash bonds on the 20- and 30-year segment in particular.

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Commercial Metals (CMC) Q3 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

million, an increase of 29% from the prior quarter, producing an annualized return on invested capital of 19.1%. CMC's downstream bidding activity for newly announced projects, which provides the best view of developments within the future project pipeline, also remained robust, increasing nearly 30% on a year-over-year basis.