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Guest Post: 2nd Quarter 2022 Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski and Sam Weller

Jeff For Banks

Covid-19 lockdowns in China have cut production of goods and ships are again lined up off the coast of China, meaning long delays in getting products to the US. Supply chain issues are the main culprit behind the huge inflation, and only now is demand beginning to fall to more normal levels. per gallon and a gallon of gas was only $0.86.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

On the eve of Yahoo’s acquisition of social networking platform Tumblr, then Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wrote a Tumblr post promising “not to screw it up.” Below, we look at some the worst mergers and acquisitions undertaken by large corporations, and how the good times went bad. The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. Microsoft and Nokia.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. After the collapse of Lehman and Bear Stearns and the global financial crisis that ensued, the business models of the world’s biggest investment banks needed to change.