The Deal Professor column on Wednesday, about the state of private equity, misstated the source of a report on deals by private equity firms.
She was referring to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who died in 2009 — not to his son Edward M. Kennedy Jr. BUSINESS DAY The Deal Professor column on Wednesday, about the state of private equity, misstated the source of a report on deals by private equity firms.
It will not produce welfare, equity, justice or efficiency unless you define a goal and regularly measure and report the state of welfare, equity, justice, or efficiency".
But in the current state of the equity market, that did not appear possible.
| A lag in fund-raising data makes the state of private equity seem worse than it is, as the number of deals is actually growing, The Financial Times writes.
While part of this is the broader state of the equity markets in 2018, it's worth noting a few specific headwinds (e.g. the TIO security breach that impacted PayPal, Amazon launching Amazon Pay), as well as a few general macro concerns like rising interest rates.
That application has sparked a ferocious debate about market structure, high-frequency trading, predatory conduct and the overall state of the equity markets.
YouTube personalities Jazz Jennings and Ingrid Nilsen spoke out about the state of global equity for the LGBTQ community and how that is being represented in media.
Nicholas Colas, ConvergEx Group chief market strategist, argues that by measuring the state of U.S. equities with the simplistic tool of the major indexes the New York Stock Exchange, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq market watchers are left to feel disconsolate at the market's lackluster performance and miss the bigger picture, namely that good things can and often do come in small packages.
