Outdoor living product maker The Azek Co. and online used car website Vroom are expected to be biggest deals of the week The U.S. initial public offering market is gearing up for another busy week with eight deals on tap expected to raise about $2 billion, led by Azek Co., a […]
(CNN) — The architect of Sweden’s coronavirus response has defended the country’s controversial decision not to go into lockdown, while admitting “improvements” could be made with the benefit of hindsight. As the coronavirus pandemic swept across the world and governments scrambled to enact emergency lockdown measures, Sweden was labeled an outlier for […]
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. ZoomInfo went public yesterday. After pricing its IPO $1 ahead of its proposed range at $21 per share, the company closed its first day’s trading worth $34.00, up 61.9%, according […]
President Donald Trump’s directive to pull 9,500 troops from Germany hits home hard for friends of America like Edgar Knobloch, whose Bavarian town has been home to U.S. service members for seven decades. Like Chancellor Angela Merkel, the mayor of Grafenwoehr was caught off guard by the latest sign of […]
This week, Sen. Rand Paul caught flak for delaying passage of an anti-lynching bill, seeking specific changes to the bill’s overly broad definition of lynching. Rather than rebut the libertarian-leaning Kentucky Republican’s points or try to win him over with any argument, the widespread response from liberal commentators was to […]
It is appropriate to say that the head of Canada’s federal housing agency wrote a one-word email in November to summarize the time it took to find out which newly shuffled cabinet minister was responsible for the agency, which oversees miles millions in affordable housing and mortgage underwriting expenses. Likewise, […]
Last Monday, May 25, George Floyd died in police custody after an arrest in Minneapolis. Floyd had moved to Minneapolis trying to “start a new life” after a long prison sentence. According to one account, “Floyd was charged in 2007 with armed robbery in a home invasion in Houston and […]
Everyone knows that when interest rates are low, you lock in a long-term mortgage to protect against future rate hikes. Rates have never been this low and federal government borrowing has never been this high. The government can borrow at 0.28 percent per year for one to three years. It […]
Mexico City (CNN) — For months, Latin America watched the rest of the world suffer as the coronavirus spread. It is a spectator no longer. “This is the new epicenter,” said Dr. Marcos Espinal, director of communicable diseases at the Pan American Health Organization. Months after emerging from a relatively obscure Chinese […]