Private equity will be able to invest in the NFL but won't have much say in team decisions

NFL team owners voted to allow private equity firms to acquire up to 10% of teams. But the firms' involvement does not stretch beyond the cash.

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U.S. discount retail chain Big Lots filed for bankruptcy and agreed to sell its business to an affiliate of private-equity firm Nexus Capital Management.

Shares of Ubisoft plunged Monday after a minority investor called for the maker of the Assassin's Creed videogame franchise to go private and install a new management team.

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