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Finance

Halt and Catch Fire: IPO Market Accelerates After Sleepy Summer

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Investor appetite for StubHub and Klarna is especially compelling at a time when consumer sentiment starting to slump.

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Economics

Stalling Jobs Growth May Be Just What the Market Needs

The latest jobs report appeared to confirm that America’s labour market is slowing, which may clinch the rate cut markets are salivating over.

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Private Equity

Carlyle, Goldman Spot Dollar Signs in Private Equity’s Liquidity Logjam

Last year marked the first time since Bain & Co started tracking data in 2005 that the private equity industry shrunk.

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Markets

Sovereign Debt Concerns Linger as Global Bond Rout Loses Steam

In the last decade, global government bonds with maturities over 10 years suffered a median loss of 2% in September, according Bloomberg.

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Blockchain

Winklevoss Twins Seek $2.2 Billion Valuation for Gemini IPO

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The pair invested early in bitcoin, becoming some of the world’s first bitcoin billionaires and launching Gemini in 2014.

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Artificial Intelligence

Tech Stocks Slide as AI Reality Lags Behind Hype

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Part of the investor pullback comes after an MIT report that checked in on the billions that companies have spent on generative AI.

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Finance

Berkshire Shares Tumble as Buffett Has Five Months Left at the Helm to Make a Big Deal

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Berkshire’s stock has slipped more than 13% since Buffett announced in May that he would step down at the end of the year.

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Finance

Barnburner Figma IPO Offers Good Omen as Klarna Reconsiders Debut

The company’s shares soared 250% in their New York Stock Exchange debut, yielding a market capitalization of $47 billion.

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M&A

Palo Alto Networks Broadens Cybersecurity Consolidation With $25B Deal

With CyberArk, Palo Alto enters into the “identity security” market, now at an “inflection point” due to the rise of agentic AI.

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Banking

Evercore’s Purchase of Robey Warshaw May Birth Trans-Atlantic M&A Titan

The deal will help bolster Evercore’s presence in Europe, where it placed 13th by deal volume in PwC’s advisory rankings last year.

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