Investor group raises Macy’s buyout bid by nearly $1 billion

Arkhouse Management and Brigade Capital are raising their offer to buy Macy’s by almost $1 billion, in hopes of taking the department-store chain private. In a statement Sunday, the investor group said it was increasing its bid to acquire Macy’s
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to $24 a share, or about $6.6 billion, up from a bid of $21 a share, or about $5.8…