Download PDF Introduction The recent spin-off of DirectTV from AT&T marked the unceremonious end of an era in the American TMT arena almost as a ritual sacrifice to fully embrace the new wave of content-driven megadeals already underway since 2017. What is striking about this story is that, back in Read more…
Download PDF Introduction On 22nd February, the merger between Lucid Motors, an electric vehicle producer, and Churchill Capital IV Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, was announced. With a pro forma valuation of $24bn, this deal is the largest merger between an EV company and SPAC so far. In the Read more…
Download PDF Allied Universal – privately owned G4S (G4S.L) – market cap as of 5th March 2021: £3.76bn Introduction After the end of the U.S. bidder’s drawn-out takeover battle with Canada’s GardaWorld, whose last bid was £3.7bn or 235p-per-share, G4S has agreed to a £3.8bn or 245p-per-share takeover offer from Read more…
Download PDF USA US indexes concluded a highly volatile week with a strong rebound on Friday after the February jobs report came in much better than expected. The economy created 379,000 jobs, more than double the consensus estimate of 175,000. January job growth was revised sharply higher to 166,000 from 49,000. The Read more…
Download PDF The oil market has been one of the most interesting to follow since the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Due to the severe reduction in travel and factory activity, demand plummeted, dragging down the price of oil. Disagreements between Saudi Arabia and Russia on oil supply caused a Read more…
Download PDF When lockdowns and travel restrictions started to threaten companies’ survival in March last year, all eyes turned to cash. What was before a mundane Treasury responsibility became a hot topic for discussion amongst C-suite executives. Mentions of cash, liquidity, and lines of credit multiplied in earnings calls. Cash Read more…
Download PDF Introduction Stock exchanges are sometimes considered simply as marketplaces where any investor with a brokerage account can participate in transactions with basic financial securities such as stocks or bonds, or more complex ones such as ETFs and derivatives. However, stock exchanges are also businesses that, like any other Read more…
Download PDF This article is part of our series that discusses the impact of low and negative interest rates on several asset classes. Here we will focus on the implications of NIRP on fixed income products. Introduction Today’s low or negative interest rates have already been experienced other times in Read more…
Download PDF Introduction Intrinsic value is a measure of what an asset is worth, and it is obtained by means of an objective calculation (to a certain extent), such as a DCF, where the cashflows of a company are discounted to the present in order to estimate the company’s true Read more…
Download PDF USA US indexes decreased sharply during the week, mainly due to a steep rise in longer-term Treasury yields and increasing inflation expectations. The S&P 500 posted its biggest weekly drop in a month, while the Nasdaq suffered its worst decline since October, as an increase in rates is Read more…
Download PDF USA United States’ major indexes evidence was mixed, but most of them ended lower in the holiday-shortened trading week (markets were closed on Monday in observance of Presidents’ Day). This was mainly due to an increase in treasury yields that climbed to the highest levels seen in a Read more…
Download PDF Introduction Everyone who took a macroeconomics class knows that the control of interest rates is a fundamental tool in economic policy. Monetary expansion or contraction has a real impact on inflation, GDP growth, and exchange rates and thus, central banks have tight control over the base rate in Read more…
Download PDF At the beginning of 2020, BSIC members took a first glance at NIRP in the article “Negative interest rate policy – friend or foe?”. The piece discusses the impact of negative rates in the Euro area and the possible unintended consequences. This year we try to go through Read more…
Download PDF Renesas Electronics [TSE: 6723] – market cap as of 19/02/2021: ¥2.14tn Dialog Semiconductor [FWB: DLG] – market cap as of 19/02/2021: €4.99bn Introduction Renesas Electronics has agreed to buy the Anglo-German Dialog for €4.9bn in an all-cash transaction. The offer priced Dialog at €67.50 per share, a 52% Read more…
Download PDF Introduction It takes over 70bn kilowatt hours per year to power the internet, which means the tech titans leave behind a massive carbon footprint. This article will focus on the largest technology companies, most notably Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft, and their growing impact on the Earth’s Read more…