SPACs, A Bubble-Driven Invention
The technique has been around for decades and come in different formats such as reverse mergers and blank check companies. Yet, investors' appetite for more risky ventures is waning as the risk-free rate is rising by the day.
Go Deeper (2 min read)Instant Delivery May Come To A Halt
Fears of a looming recession are prompting fast grocery delivery services to slow their expansion.
Go Deeper (3 min read)Mortgage Lenders Are Struggling To Stay Afloat
The Federal Reserve's efforts to cool heated inflation have resulted in a slowdown in the mortgage market. To calm the economy, the Fed raised interest rates twice this year and stopped its largest mortgage-bond buying program this spring.
Go Deeper (2 min read)Lockheed, A Defence Major
Lockheed Martin Corporation is a multinational aerospace, defence, information security, and technology company based in the United States. It was founded in 1995 through the combination of Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta.
Go Deeper (8 min read)Inflation Is Eating Into Profits And Valuations
The fortunes of investors riding a 13-year bull market are being shattered by a dizzying reversal in technology-startup financing. The new climate has quickly brought high-flying businesses to a halt: layoffs, cautious investors, a fund outflow, and the threat of a valuation cut.
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Monster Beverage, A Titan In The Making
Monster Beverage Corporation is a beverage company headquartered in Corona, California, which develops, markets, sells, and distributes energy drinks and concentrates in the U.S. and overseas. Monster Beverage's brands include Monster Energy, Reign, Burn and Relentless.
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Private Equity Steady In Face Of Increasing Volatility
On Monday, KKR announced the full closure of the KKR North America Fund XIII, an oversubscribed $19 billion fund focused on pursuing opportunistic private equity investments in North America.
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Amazon, Apple And Starbucks Employees Unionize
Despite the fact that union membership in the United States has been declining in recent years, workers at a number of corporations, including Amazon, Starbucks and Verizon, have recently chosen to unionise
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Apollo Might Join The Twitter-Musk Saga
Apollo does not want to be a member of a private equity consortium that buys the social media business but would provide funding in the form of preferred shares.
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Cybersecurity, An Illusion?
When a cybersecurity business in the United Kingdom went public last year, it promised to develop encryption technology that would shield the military industry, corporations, and consumers from the prying eyes of hyper-capable quantum computers.
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Affirm, A Buy-Now-Pay-Later Winner?
Affirm, located in San Francisco, is a publicly traded financial technology startup. The company, which was founded in 2012, is a financial lender that provides consumers with instalment loans that they can use to finance purchases at the point of sale.
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