PE HUB First Read

SoftBank is taking a $4.6 billion hit from WeWork.

A glitch on Robinhood lets users trade stocks with excess borrowed funds.

Ernest J. Gaines, author of “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” has passed  away.

Xerox is planning a cash-and-stock offer for HP.

Saudi Aramco made an IPO offer to Malaysia’s Petronas.

These NYC restaurants are as terribly overrated as Peter Luger.

Walgreens Boots is exploring a potential take-private deal.

California mayors join campaign to buy out PG&E.

U.S. SEC proposes rules that could limit shareholder voices.

Boeing’s CEO is taking a massive pay cut.

Aarrr, matey! Supreme Court justices frown on state’s public display of pirate ship’s salvage operation.