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Medline & 2025 IPO Boom: Why Oversized First-Day Returns Signal Risks for 2026 Listings

Americas Markets Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

Medline’s $6.3B IPO, the biggest U.S. listing...

Huge first-day pops in 2025 deals like Figma ...

A 2026 wave of large candidates (e.g., SpaceX...

Many IPOs that surge at debut later fall belo...

How Fast Food Brands Use Promotions & Loyalty to Win Value-Minded Customers

Americas FYI Restaurants and Other Eating Places

Fast-food chains offer legitimate freebies ma...

McDonald’s and Taco Bell routinely run app-ba...

Some offers require minimum spend or delivery...

Deals vary by location and availability, so c...

How Income Inequality is Reshaping Fast-Food & Beverage Spending Trends

Americas Markets Restaurants and Other Eating Places

U.S. spending is splitting into a two-tier pa...

McDonald’s and Coca-Cola report widening inco...

Value-seeking is rising across all income lev...

Thomas Dolby Live in Chattanooga: Intimate Concert at The Signal on Nov 5, 2025

Americas FYI Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events

Thomas Dolby will play The Signal's Parlour s...

The Parlour is an intimate secondary stage wi...

Tickets vary widely by seller and tier, rangi...

The show is expected to generate venue and lo...

2026 Stock Surge in Defense & Small-Caps as Tech Slips, Interest Rates Steady

Americas Markets Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing

On Jan. 8, 2026, the S&P 500 finished flat, t...

Defense stocks jumped after former President ...

Small-caps outperformed with the Russell 2000...

Investors awaited the Friday jobs report as m...

Where Canada’s Savings Accounts & GIC Rates Stand Now: Yields, Policy & What’s Next

Americas Markets Depository Credit Intermediation

With the Bank of Canada policy rate at 2.25%,...

Top non-redeemable GIC rates run about 3.65% ...

High-interest savings rates vary widely, with...

Because longer-dated GIC yields are relativel...

a16z Raises $15B in Tough VC Year, Prediction Markets and Policy Take Center Stage

Americas Firms Other Investment Pools and Funds

a16z closed over $15B across new funds, lifti...

The raise alone represented over 18% of all U...

a16z is framing its strategy around U.S.-led ...

Prediction markets (notably Polymarket and Ka...

A16z’s $15B Raise Shifts VC Power Toward AI, Defense & Infrastructure

Americas Firms Other Investment Pools and Funds

Andreessen Horowitz raised $15B across five n...

Capital is concentrated in growth, AI apps/in...

The funds represent over 18% of U.S. VC dolla...

Founders outside these priority theses or wit...

Innovative Connections Acquires MSB Coach to Power Executive Leadership

Americas M&A Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

Innovative Connections and MSB Coach announce...

The deal adds MSB Coach’s evidence-based meth...

Dr. Braden and the MSB Coach team will suppor...

The transaction reflects ongoing consolidatio...

Bank of America Under Fire in India: SEBI Probes $180M Block Trade Leak

Americas Risk Depository Credit Intermediation

SEBI alleges Bank of America leaked material ...

The notice says internal units (broking, rese...

SEBI also claims BofA initially misled invest...

BofA has received a show-cause notice and is ...