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SoftBank Steps up Asset Sales From Sinking Portfolio
Date: August 9, 2022
By Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) – SoftBank Group Corp is accelerating asset sales after its flagship Vision Fund unit booked nearly $50 billion in losses in just six months, but Chief Executive Masayoshi Son faces narrowing options and slumping valuations, analysts said. Son said on Monday that he is in discussions to sell asset manager...
Startup Valuations Slashed, Crypto Projects Failed and Billions Lost: The Private Markets Are Crying Out for a Universal Infrastructure
Date: July 28, 2022
By Serkan Ferah, Founder and CEO of PitchSpace Since 2020, we have been witnessing a paradigm shift in the relationship amongst startups, capital and investors – both on a professional and retail level. First, we saw an increased appetite amongst retail investors for investing. A new generation of capital was awoken and money started to flow...
Analysis-As Inflation Soars, European Consumer Goods M&A Slows
Date: July 28, 2022
By Richa Naidu LONDON (Reuters) – As a cost-of-living crisis with no end in sight sends shockwaves through Europe, deals in the region’s retail and consumer-products industries have slowed dramatically – even more so than in other sectors, data shows. Record inflation around the world has changed the way people shop, with many families trading...
An M&A Influx Is on Its Way
Date: July 15, 2022
By Mark Williams, Chief Revenue Officer, Americas at Datasite Despite global conflict and economic tensions, dealmakers predict strong M&A activity in the second half of the year As the Russia-Ukraine war closes in on its fifth month, the humanitarian and economic fallout has become evident. Since the start of the war, more than 12 million...
Burberry, Richemont Shares Slump on China Jitters, Weaker US
Date: July 15, 2022
PARIS (Reuters) -Burberry and Richemont on Friday laid bare the damage to sales inflicted by China’s strict lockdowns, driving their shares sharply down and renewing concerns about the outlook for the world’s top luxury goods market. Signs of weakness creeping into the U.S. market, the industry’s other main growth engine, added to investor jitters. Shares...
Market Value Alone Is Selling Nature Short, Governments Told
Date: July 11, 2022
By Mark John (Reuters) – What is the value of a river? Is it for the nutritional content of the fish it sustains? The economic benefit of the local livelihoods it supports? Or does the river have its own value which humans cannot measure? Such questions may seem removed from the issues the world faces,...