This year’s third quarter alone “featured the richest stretch of private equity (PE) dealmaking in years,” The Wall Street Journal said, led by the astonishing $55-billion acquisition of game maker Electronic Arts by a coalition of PE firms.
Category: TRENDS ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC FRONT – Oct 14 2025
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TOP TREND 2023, OFFICE BUILDING BUST: ‘TOO HISTORIC TO TEAR DOWN, TOO COSTLY TO SAVE’
A growing number of cities face a dilemma, according to The Wall Street Journal: historic office towers that hold a portion of the city’s identity are no longer able to pay their own way and fail to qualify for conversion to other uses, but preservationists militate against blowing them up or tearing them down.
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CHINA STEPS UP CRACKDOWN ON U.S.-MADE COMPUTER CHIPS
After pressuring Chinese tech companies to use only domestically made computer chips, Beijing in mid-September ordered a halt to all purchases of chips made in the U.S.
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GERMAN CARMAKERS’ RESULTS SLIP ON WEAKNESS IN CHINA
A 5-percent gain in North American sales was not enough to offset a sharp 26-percent drop in purchases in China, resulting in Porsche posting a 6-percent decline in sales worldwide this year through September.
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TRUMP ESCALATES TRADE WAR WITH 100-PERCENT TARIFF ON CHINA
After Beijing tightened restrictions on exports of minerals and refining technologies crucial to U.S. high-tech industries, Donald Trump announced the U.S. will impose a 100-percent tariff on Chinese imports beginning 1 November and will place more stringent export controls on "any and all critical software".
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GOING OUT OF BUSINESS TRENDS
The economic landscape has presented an array of challenges that have profoundly affected the business community this year.
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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
The U.S. government shutdown has resulted in 4,000 federal workers losing their jobs. Many of the layoffs took place at the Treasury Department and the Department of Health and Human Services, where approximately 1,600 were laid off. The Department of Education laid off 460 employees including most of the staff at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
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ANOTHER GOLDEN YEAR FOR GOLD
Investors continue to pile into the gold market even as the metal’s price has broken through $4,000 in the biggest rally in half a century.