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Deere falls on mixed guidance Deere shares fell more than 6% in the premarket after the agriculture equipment maker issued mixed guidance for the fiscal year. The company expects net income of $4.75 billion to $5.25 billion. The top end of that range is below a prior guidance that showed net income coming in at…

Every week, venture investors see hundreds of beautifully designed slide decks that promise to change the world. Yet fewer than 3% of those pitches receive funding—a hit rate lower than getting into Harvard University. Part of this low success rate is by design—venture investors are inherently picky, by and large looking only for “home runs”…

Asia-Pacific markets start the day mixed Asia-Pacific markets opened mixed Thursday. Japan’s Nikkei 225 benchmark fell 0.31%, reversing course from its record high close in the previous session. Meanwhile, the broader Topix index lost 0.64%, as of 8:05 a.m. Singapore time (8:05 p.m. ET Wednesday). In South Korea, the Kospi index added 0.39%, while the small-cap Kosdaq…

The stakes in C-suite hiring are existential. After all, talent risk is value-creation risk. Nowhere is this truer than in the middle market, where leadership’s impact is most directly felt and executives are unlikely to be supported by layers of management and squads of subject-matter experts. But when leadership changes are necessary—because of retirement, change…