As we had forecast, the M&A activity which went down when interest rates went high would soon return.
Tag: Economy
SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S ECONOMIC STRUGGLE
In March, China’s factory activity grew for the first time in six months, the country’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has estimated.
TOP TREND 2024: EV GO FU: FORD DELAYS NEW EV MODEL UNTIL 2027
Citing a weak market for electric vehicles (EVs), Ford Motor Co. is delaying the debut of a three-row EV until 2027 and instead is focusing significantly on gas-electric hybrids.
TOP TREND 2023: OFFICE BUILDING BUST
In this year’s first quarter, the nationwide U.S. office vacancy rate averaged a record 19.8 percent, Moody’s reported, up from 19.6 percent the previous quarter.
TOP TREND 2024: BANKS GO BUST
Faced with a looming wave of wobbly commercial real estate (CRE) loans coming due, banks seem to be granting many lenders extensions of their maturity dates to give them more time to either refinance those loans or scrape together more capital to qualify for a new loan.
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Merger and Acquisition took a break when the Federal Reserve and EU began aggressively raising interest rates from their zero and negative levels back in March and July 2022 respectively.
“REINVENT YOURSELF,” IMF TELLS CHINA
“China faces a fork in the road” and needs to "reinvent itself" with dramatically new economic policies that will end its 30-month-long property crisis, jump-start consumer spending, and raise productivity, Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on 24 March.
CHINA’S MIDDLE CLASS GOING DOWN, GOLD BUYING GOING UP
China’s middle class blossomed from the 1980s until Beijing launched the COVID War in January 2020 on it Lunar New Year, “The Year of the Rat,” and imposed three years of draconian zero-COVID policy which destroyed the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of its citizens.
TOP TREND 2024, EV GO FU
As electric vehicle (EV) sales stall, hybrids—which combine electric power with a conventional fossil-fuel engine—are speeding off dealers’ lots.
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Merger and Acquisition took a break when the Federal Reserve and EU began aggressively raising interest rates from their zero and negative levels back in March and July 2022 respectively.