PARIS (dpa-AFX) - Hedge-fund billionaire William Ackman's Pershing Square Tontine Holdings Ltd., confirmed Friday that it is in talks with French media conglomerate Vivendi SA to buy 10 percent
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By Amrith Ramkumar Shares of technology firms and special-purpose acquisition companies surged on Tuesday, bouncing back after a weekslong streak of declines that pushed some popular SPACs down 20% or more in a month. The Nasdaq Composite surged 3.7% for its biggest advance since November, trimming a recent slide that just one day earlier had dragged it more than 10% below its February all-time high. Shares of electric-car company Tesla Inc. rebounded 20%, adding more than $100 billion to the company s market value, or roughly the equivalent of two Ford Motor Co. Some popular companies that have gone public by merging with so-called SPACs in recent years including online real-estate firm Opendoor Technologies Inc., space-tourism company Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. and electric-car company Lordstown Motors Corp. added 6% or more. Those all remain down at least 30% in the last month.