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Sebastien
Investment analyst at Gorgorus.
503 articles
Central Banks Walk A Narrow Path Between Growth And Inflation
With a 40-year high in inflation, the Fed raised its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point on Wednesday. Additional half point increases are expected in June and July with the market expecting rates in the 2.75%-3% range by year end, from a range of 0.75%-1% today.
06 May 2022
It Feels Like A Recession In China
China's economy is experiencing a period of sluggish growth as a result of Beijing's zero-tolerance stance to Covid-19. Economists are debating whether or not to use the term "recession" to characterize the situation.
03 May 2022
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.
01 May 2022
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.
29 Apr 2022
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
26 Apr 2022
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.
21 Apr 2022
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.
19 Apr 2022
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.
17 Apr 2022
Thoma Bravo Taking Over SailPoint
The cybersecurity business SailPoint Technologies announced on Monday that private equity firm Thoma Bravo will acquire it for $ 6.12B, in the latest deal that highlights the heightened interest in the security software market.
15 Apr 2022
A Looming Recession?
According to economists polled by The Wall Street Journal this month, the risk of the economy going into recession in the next 12 months is 28%, up from 18% in January and just 13% a year ago.
12 Apr 2022
Hypebeast Goes Public Through SPAC Merger
Hypebeast is bringing its stock to the United States through a merger with the SPAC Iron Spark I that will value the company at more than $530 million following the investment.
08 Apr 2022
Where Are Stocks Headed?
In the past months, investor sentiment deteriorated dramatically. In a study conducted by the American Association of Individual Investors, bears dominated bulls.
06 Apr 2022
Moody's Corporation
Moody's Corporation is a commercial and financial services firm based in the United States. It is the parent business of Moody's Investors Service, an American credit rating agency, and Moody's Analytics, a financial analysis software and services provider based in the United States
04 Apr 2022
Tech Companies Are Always Growing "Fast"
Fast, a firm that offers online checkout and identity services, has raised $102 million in a Series B round back in March 2021. Stripe, a previous investor in Fast, led the current fundraising round.
01 Apr 2022
Pet Stocks Lose Their Momentum
More than 23 million American families (nearly one in every five) got a pet during the pandemic and many new owners have spent big on their pets. U.S. consumers spent $21.4 billion on non-medical pet supplies in November 2022.
30 Mar 2022
Stagflation 2.0
Today's economic environment is reminding investors of the so-called "stagflation" that affected developed economies throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These periods were marked by slowing economic growth, rising inflation and growing unemployment.
25 Mar 2022
Are Private Companies Overvalued?
Most recently IPOed companies have seen their valuation cut in half in the last months. These include well-known companies like SoFi, Marqeta, Robinhood, Affirm and many other so-called FinTechs or SaaS companies.
23 Mar 2022
Beijing To Relax Its Grip On Tech And Foreign-Listed Stocks
On Wednesday, the Chinese government signaled support for the listing of Chinese companies abroad and that its crackdown on technology companies would end soon.
21 Mar 2022
EQT AB, The Swedish Leader
EQT is a global investment firm created in 1994 that focuses on investing in, developing, and owning businesses in a variety of geographies, industries, and business models.
21 Mar 2022
Semiconductor Industry Is Better Prepared This Time
Russia and Ukraine produce the majority of the raw materials used in chip manufacturing. Both neon gas, which is used to feed lasers that print circuitry onto silicon, and palladium, which is utilized in subsequent production stages, are abundant in the countries.
18 Mar 2022
