This year’s DealBook Summit will feature speakers including Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton, Ginni Rometty of IBM and the Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom. It’s auto merger Round 2 for Fiat ChryslerStop us if you’ve heard this one before: Fiat Chrysler confirmed this morning that it is in talks to combine with another automaker. An all-stock merger of equals is being weighed by the two companies as a potential deal option, according to the WSJ. Peugeot’s C.E.O., Carlos Tavares, would keep that role in the combined automaker, while Fiat’s chairman, John Elkann, would retain that title. It reflects a belief that smaller car companies must combine if they’re to compete.

Source: New York Times October 30, 2019 10:03 UTC