Ericsson Finally Joins the Buyback Club So Ericsson just crushed their fourth quarter numbers and decided to celebrate by doing something they've literally never done before - buying back their own stock. The Swedish telecom gear company made 12.7 billion kronor (about $1.4 billion) in adjusted EBITDA, which was way better than the 10.5 billion kronor that analysts were expecting and a solid 24% jump from last year. Pretty impressive considering the whole telecom equipment in

Thyssenkrupp, the big German industrial company, is thinking about selling off a chunk of one of its businesses - specifically about 30% of its Rothe Erde bearings division, which could be worth around €1.5 billion ($1.8 billion). The company has brought in some advisers to see who might be interested in buying, but it's still pretty early days and there's no guarantee anything will actually happen. When Bloomberg asked them about it, Thyssenkrupp basically gave the standard

2025 was basically the year of corporate spring cleaning, with around 50 US companies deciding to spin off parts of their business - and we're talking about the biggest wave of these moves we've seen in over ten years. It's like companies looked around and said, "okay, time to get rid of the stuff that's dragging us down" - particularly those slower-growing, money-hungry divisions in healthcare, media, and agriculture that were eating up resources without delivering the goods