IPOs: Delayed

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Initial Public Offering Defined

IPO stands for initial public offering. It is when a company takes a portion of their shares and makes them available for the general public to buy on the open market. It is a way for the company to raise money by selling those shares to the general public. You can usually access shares from an IPO by working directly with an investment bank.

Paused IPOs

Private companies StubHub and Klarna each paused their imminent plans to go public.

Klarna, which was set to IPO on this Monday, was expected to jump-start the frozen IPO market this year with an expected ~$15 billion valuation.

StubHub, meanwhile, reportedly wants to wait for the market to calm down before resuming its plans to go public.

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DAILY UPDATE: Ark Invest, Dell and “Buy Now-Pay Later”

Posted on May 13, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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While Buy Now-Pay Later (BNPL) reduces friction when purchasing, it’s giving some economy watchers unease. As Americans’ budgets buckle under the weight of inflation and higher interest payments, some worry BNPL is more of an invisible burden than a boon, Bloomberg reports. Beware the “phantom debt,” a Wells Fargo economist recently warned, referring to the BNPL industry’s short-term loans, which go largely unaccounted for by those tracking Americans’ debt load. That’s because, unlike credit cards and auto loan providers, Afterpay, Affirm, Klarna, and other BNPL providers don’t usually report transactions to credit scoring agencies.

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The Cathie Wood-led Ark Invest just made some significant trades. The most prominent among them were the increased stakes in Palantir Technologies Inc (NYSE: PLTR) and her reduced holdings in Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN).

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Dell has recently seen a decline in its revenue. In its most recent earnings report, it revealed that its net revenue shrunk by 11% year-over-year during its fiscal 2024 fourth quarter. For full year 2023, the company’s revenue was down by 14% to $88.4 billion. Partly that was due to a weak personal-computer market and the costs associated with more than 6,000 layoffs. But investors are excited by Dell’s growth potential for its server and computer businesses because of artificial intelligence, the Motley Fool reported.

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“Buy Now – Pay Later” Changed Retail Consumerism

Posted on May 19, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

Health care and rent are next?

[By Terry Nguyen staff reporters]

Emerging fintech apps are looking to apply this lending model to sectors, from health care to travel to rent. Sure, people are growing acclimated to dividing their purchases into four easy payments, even applauding the option to do so.

But no matter how you frame it, the pitfalls of these plans seem to be, unfortunately, just more debt.

18-24's Owe £225 to Buy Now Pay Later Schemes - AI Global ...

Buy now, pay later providers Klarna, Afterpay, and Quadpay spent years slowly infiltrating the retail market. The pandemic has accelerated their popularity among all sorts of online brands

READ LINK: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2021/5/11/22429014/buy-now-pay-later-pandemic-expansion?utm_source=pocket-newtab

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