Spacks are special purpose acquisition companies. Celebrities like genifer lopez and sport stars have poured money into these blank companies, as they are sometimes called. The investment created a pool of capital worth a remarkable one hundredand forty two billion dollars. It kind of happened over overnight, really; it was a sort of dramatic turn sor tensa.
A wave of cash flooding bank balance sheets has prompted some US lenders to advise corporate clients to move money out of deposits, and Apollo has bought Verizon’s media assets including Yahoo for $5bn. Plus, the FT’s mergers & acquisitions reporter, Ortenca Aliaj, explains why the Spac boom has deflated.
Apollo buys Verizon media assets including Yahoo for $5bn
https://www.ft.com/content/ef0992ec-1d4f-4030-95a9-d950e47338e1
Cash-rich US banks move to reduce corporate deposits
https://www.ft.com/content/a5e165f7-a524-4b5b-9939-de689b6a1687
A reckoning for Spacs: will regulators deflate the boom?
https://www.ft.com/content/99de2333-e53a-4084-8780-2ba9766c70b7?
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