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Walmart Seals The Deal With Flipkart For $16 Billion

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. “India is one of the most attractive retail markets in the world, given its size and growth rate, and our investment is an opportunity to partner with the company that is leading transformation of eCommerce in the market,” Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said in a statement. What the Deal Will Mean. is known for. “As Local Reaction.

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Transcript: Michael Fisch

Barry Ritholtz

But there wasn’t an active m and a business, there wasn’t a leveraged finance business. But there came to be, in certain situations, buyers that were bootstrap, buyers that were, we would call ’em today, they then leveraged buyout financiers. It was America’s largest retailer. All the things we know now.

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Data Update 4 for 2021: The Hurdle Rate Question!

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That may make sense if you are a retailer, and every investment you make is another mall store, but it clearly does not, if you are a company in multiple businesses (or geographies) and some investments are much riskier than others. The third is currency, with hurdle rates, for any given project, varying across currencies.

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Blue Apron A (Possible) Tech IPO Fizzle

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Turns out that investors get nervous when profits prove elusive. Thus, a possible tech stock market fizzle, should this indeed be a harbinger, where the $2 billion valuation is the same as implied by a Blue Apron funding round two years ago. The ascendant tech IPO that, well, snapped when it reported results?

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

Barry Ritholtz

And it became the most profitable private equity investment ever made and — it is true. And Blackstone’s funds through that period, generated substantial profits because we had made those good choices, not just about the investments — RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Is that true? That’s amazing.

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Musings on Markets: Control, Complexity and Politics: Deconstructing the Adani Affair!

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Among Indian institutions, LIC is the largest holder with just over 4% of the shares, but the retail investor presence in this company is small, largely because of the low float, though the surge in the company’s price in the last two years has drawn some traders to it.

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Control, Complexity and Politics: Deconstructing the Adani Affair!

Musings on Markets

Among Indian institutions, LIC is the largest holder with just over 4% of the shares, but the retail investor presence in this company is small, largely because of the low float, though the surge in the company's price in the last two years has drawn some traders to it.