IPO: Ackman Fund Postponed

Posted on July 31, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Bill Ackman’s fund postpones IPO

The billionaire hedge fund boss and frequent main character on X has delayed the stock market debut of the closed-end fund Pershing Square USA, which was scheduled for early next week, a notice on the New York Stock Exchange’s website said.

The decision to wait came days after Ackman said in a letter to investors that the firm was downsizing its expectations for the share sale from a target of about $25 billion (which would have made it the largest-ever IPO of its kind) to something between $2.5 billion and $4 billion.

Ackman has a similar fund already trading shares in Europe and has hinted he might take his larger firm, Pershing Square, public as soon as next year.

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PODCAST: About the Mathematical WOLFRAM ALPHA Computational Knowledge Engine

Posted on July 31, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

What it is – How it works

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Wolfram Alpha is an online mathematical search engine launched in March 2009 and developed by Stephen Wolfram. It seeks to answer factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of web pages that might contain the answer.

In this way, WA differs from traditional semantic search engines, which index a large number of answers and then try to match the question to one. Wolfram Alpha has many parallels with Cyc, a project aimed since the 1980s at developing a common-sense inference engine. Wolfram Alpha is built on Wolfram’s earlier flagship product, Mathematica, which encompasses computer algebra, symbolic and numerical computation, visualization, and statistics capabilities.

With Mathematica running in the background, WA is suited to answer mathematical questions. The answer usually presents a human-readable solution.

Link: http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Technology

Wolfram Alpha is written in about 5 million lines of Mathematica (using webMathematica and gridMathematica) code and runs on 10,000 CPUs. As well as being a web site, Wolfram Alpha provides an API (for a fee) that delivers computational answers to other applications. One such application is the Bing search engine.

Capabilities

As an example, one can input the name of a website, and it will return relevant information about the site, including its location, site rank, number of visitors and more. The database currently includes hundreds of datasets, including current and historical weather, drug data, star charts, currency conversion, and many others. The datasets have been accumulated over approximately two years, and are expected to continue to grow. The range of questions that can be answered is also expected to grow with the expansion of the datasets.

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Utility and Usefulness

Wolfram Alpha is ideal for use by all readers and subscribers of the ME-P. It may be used by doctors, nurses, financial advisors and insurance agents, economists, mathematicians, editors, and publishers, teachers and students of all academic levels. The graphical nature of output is particularly helpful.

Assessment

Wolfram Alpha has received mixed reviews, to date. Advocates point to its potential, some even stating that how it determines output result is more important than current usefulness.

Note: Info courtesy wikipedia.org

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Daniel Vande Lune MD on How HCQIA provided immunity is misused by hospitals for sham peer-review

Posted on July 31, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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DAILY UPDATE: Healthcare Costs, Lobbyists and Private Equity as Technology Drowns

Posted on July 31, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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In the second quarter, 14 healthcare organizations spent more than a million dollars lobbying the federal government for healthcare policy change, led by the American Hospital Association and AARP.

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Sen. Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) introduced strengthened legislation to rein in the actions of private equity firms that invest in healthcare facilities. The Health Over Wealth Act would require PE firms to put out reports on the facilities’ pay of executives, set up escrow accounts and receive a license from the Department of Health & Human Services prior to investing in healthcare facilities.

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The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting ending tomorrow is widely expected to conclude with no interest rate move. Instead, it could serve as a platform to help prepare market participants for a possible cut at the September meeting.

Here’s where the major benchmarks ended:

  • The S&P 500® (SPX) index lost 27.1 points (–0.5%) to 5,436.44; the Dow Jones Industrial Average® ($DJI) climbed 203.4 points (0.5%) to 40,743.33; the NASDAQ Composite®($COMP) fell 222.78 points (–1.3%) to 17,147.42. 
  • The 10-year Treasury note yield (TNX) dropped about two basis points to 4.14%.
  • The CBOE Volatility Index® (VIX) jumped to 17.77, not far below last week’s highs.

What’s up

  • Paypal popped 8.59% after announcing impressive earnings and proving it’s got nothing to fear from Apple’s moves into the online payment world.
  • JetBlue Airways soared 12.31% thanks to a surprise profit last quarter rather than the loss analysts expected.
  • Affirm Holdings rose 2.31% due to an upgrade from “neutral” to “buy” from Bank of America analysts.
  • Tenable Holdings surged 9.30% after the cybersecurity company made it clear it’s willing to take acquisition offers.
  • F5 jumped 12.99% thanks to a beat-and-raise earnings report.

What’s down

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Visualize: A key measure of employer healthcare costs is poised for its biggest annual increase in more than a decade as more people use mental health care and get prescriptions for new, expensive drugs—yes, including Ozempic—according to a new PwC report.

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