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SA’s Wall Street Breakfast: IPO Revival

Sourced from SEEKING ALPHA‘s Wall Street Breakfast:

The market for initial public offerings looked like it might finally be recovering from the WeWork (WE) debacle before COVID-19 brought IPOs to a halt over the past two months, but there are …


M&A radar: Hapag-Lloyd – Nothing to see here?

There are many forms of manipulation in the capital markets, either self-induced or not. And, in some cases, it can end up being a partial oversight on the regulators’ part, particularly when certain situations are protracted in time.
The watchdog …



Supply chain radar: Sailing with ZIM wherever the wind blows

If you read the latest headlines about ZIM’s Q1 ’20 performance, for a second you’d be forgiven for thinking that the Israeli group remains severely financially stretched, in a rather difficult market.
While it is true that, as research house …


SA: Hedge funds switch to shorting for merger arbitrage – WSJ

SEEKING ALPHA reports:
Some merger-arbitrage investors are shifting their strategies away from long positions and either reducing holdings in target companies or shorting them as the coronavirus raises the risk that deals will either be repriced lower or fall apart.…