Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
5 Quick Stories We Are Following Today 4-1-25
Tue, 01 Apr 2025
In this episode, Scott Becker covers five key business and market updates.
Chapter 1: Who is presenting the business and market updates?
Chapter 2: What is causing the current market decline?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. These are five of the quick stories that we're following today, and thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. First, the markets are falling today on renewed concerns regarding tariffs. We'll see how that continues.
Chapter 3: How did the markets perform yesterday and today?
Yesterday, the markets ended up up a little bit after being down most of the day, but ended up fine. Today, the markets point significantly down early, and we'll see how it goes. Second,
Chapter 4: What is the status of U.S. mergers and acquisitions in Q1?
Chapter 5: What factors are contributing to the slowdown in deals this year?
Chapter 6: What happened to Canada Goose's stock recently?
u.s mergers and acquisitions fell in the first quarter year after year by 13 percent uh this is going to lead many bankers pe funds lawyers consultants disappointing people are expecting a good rebound in deals this year so far not the case not yet obviously tariffs interest rates lots of things causing a slowdown in that third canada goose sank to an all-time low yesterday
i didn't really see that coming given how attractive their products are their price for luxury but not as bad as montclair and so forth but nevertheless candidate goose taking it on the chin down three percent three and a half percent yesterday and taking an all-time low uh our family seems to be buying enough candidate goose to keep them in where they should be but but no such luck all right fourth discover financial jump seven and a half percent yesterday
They're in the process of being sold to Capital One for $35 billion. So we'll see where that ends up. Their interim CEO decided to stay on, and that helped give them a comfort that they're in a stable spot. Finally, fifth, Kalantir Technologies, the company that Peter Thiel bit, built, excuse me, remains up about 12% year to date.
It was on a much bigger run than that, but happy, I think, to be still up 12%. So in overall, good, good shape. That's what's going on with that. Those are five of the quick stories that we're following today. Thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Thank you very, very much.