Blackstone Group, L.P.

Home prices are rising at levels not seen since the real estate boom, but American homeownership remains on the decline. The two trends underscore the nature of the housing rebound: Gains in pricing have been driven significantly by investors, leaving...

Blackstone Group, the New York-based private equity group, announced Tuesday it would hire 50,000 military veterans over the next five years across its various businesses. The company said it is partnering with the White House, which is leading an...

SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. is a hot commodity on Wall Street. The Orlando-based theme-park owner raised $700 million last week in an initial public offering that exceeded even its own expectations. The company's share price then surged even higher,...

SeaWorld, the parent company of Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Water Country USA, saw its stock rise 19.6 percent in its first day as a publicly traded company. Its stock rose as high as $34.67 per share during the opening day after an initial...

You know Los Angeles has become a tough real estate market when it’s hard for even Jon Gray to find a bargain. “It’s become harder, because the pricing has moved up,” said Gray, the global head of real estate for private equity...

SeaWorld Entertainment Inc., the theme park chain owned by Blackstone Group, priced its shares at the top of the marketed range and raised $702 million in its initial public offering. SeaWorld sold 26 million shares at $27 each, according to data compiled...

Capping a long bidding war, laboratory-equipment maker Life Technologies  Corp. of Carlsbad has agreed to be acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific for $13.6 billion. The deal announced Monday was approved by both companies' boards of directors and...

Shamu plans to soak Wall Street with a greater splash than previously thought. SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. — the company known for its performing killer whale — could raise $540 million in an initial public offering on the New York Stock...

Just like its popular Duncan Hines cake mixes, packaged foods company Pinnacle Foods Inc. was on the rise Thursday morning after raising $580 million in an initial public offering. The company -- which owns an array of popular brands including Birds...

Aside from the business suit he was wearing, which he joked was rented for the occasion, Sam Zell was never more himself than when he appeared at a New York lender conference in April 2007 to hawk his $8.2 billion buyout of Tribune Co. Slinging one-...

SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. and its killer whales are going public, filing for an initial public offering that could raise $100 million. The theme park company, famous for using the orca Shamu as a performer, said in a filing with the Securities and...

A Miami investment firm says it’s spending $150 million to buy 1,200 homes in foreclosure across South Florida. Roughly 60 percent of the homes will be in Miami-Dade County and the remainder will be split across Broward and Palm Beach counties,...