DAILY UPDATE: Walgreens Boots Private Equity, Medical Cost Debt as Stock Markets Stabilize

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Walgreens Boots Alliance says it has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Sycamore Partners as the struggling retailer looks to turn itself around after years of losing money. Walgreens said Thursday that Sycamore will pay $11.45 per share, giving the deal an equity value just under $10 billion. Shareholders could eventually receive up to an

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Stocks

  • The S&P 500 rose 0.6%
  • The NASDAQ 100 rose 0.7%
  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.5%
  • The MSCI World Index rose 0.2%
  • Bloomberg Magnificent 7 Total Return Index rose 0.2%
  • The Russell 2000 Index rose 0.4%

Currencies

  • The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index fell 0.2%
  • The euro rose 0.6% to $1.0851
  • The British pound rose 0.4% to $1.2929
  • The Japanese yen was little changed at 147.89 per dollar

Cryptocurrencies

  • Bitcoin fell 4% to $86,226.2
  • Ether fell 3.8% to $2,129.51

Bonds

  • The yield on 10-year Treasuries advanced two basis points to 4.30%
  • Germany’s 10-year yield was little changed at 2.84%
  • Britain’s 10-year yield declined two basis points to 4.64%

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Stat: 20%. That’s how many US residents under age 49 have borrowed money to cover medical costs. (West Health and Gallup)

Visualize: How private equity tangled banks in a web of debt, from the Financial Times.

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DAILY UPDATE: Bye-Bye Walgreens & Hello Amazon and Reddit

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On Tuesday, February 20th, the S&P Dow Jones Indices, which oversees additions and subtractions to the highly followed Dow Jones Industrial Average, announced that, as of the start of trading on Monday, February, 26th pharmacy chain Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ: WBA) would be getting the literal boot.

Meanwhile, e-commerce kingpin Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) will be taking its place.

And, Reddit filed to go public last week in an IPO that will resemble the platform itself—unusual, chaotic, and reliant on its opinionated users. Planned for next month, Reddit’s public listing will be the first social media IPO since Pinterest in 2019 and the first major tech IPO of the year.

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WALGREENS: Quarterly Dividend Cuts

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Walgreens doled out some tough medicine to its investors this week when it cut its quarterly dividend to shareholders nearly in half, in a move to conserve cash and strengthen its long-term financial position, according to CEO Tim Wentworth.

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Illinois-based Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA), which operates one of the largest US drugstore chains, on Thursday declared a quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share, a reduction from 48 cents per share the previous quarter. The dividend will be payable on March 12th.

The move will allow Walgreens to increase cash flow and free up capital “to invest in sustainable growth initiatives in our pharmacy and healthcare businesses, which we believe will ultimately improve shareholder value,” Wentworth said in a statement.

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