The “art” of doing business has become quite a difficult sale this year. Rainmakers in the global M&A business saw the count of completed deals drop to $ 1.11 trillion in the first six months of the year, about half the volume seen during the same period in 2019, for …
Read More »Dun & Bradstreet raises $ 1.7 billion as shares gain 15.2% on IPO debut
Text size Spencer Platt / Getty Images On their second trip to the equity markets, Dun & Bradstreet Holdings shares gained 15.2% in their trading debut on Wednesday. Dun & Bradstreet (ticker: DNB) shares traded up to 17% higher than their initial public offering price of $ 22. The shares …
Read More »A broken uptrend in key government bond yield could bode badly for stocks
Too much for V-shaped recovery. The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond TMUBMUSD10Y, 0.647% it just broke below an ascending trend line, suggesting that the uptrend of the COVID-19 low in early March has ended. That upward trend in rates was significant for both Main Street and Wall Street. It …
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