Becker Private Equity & Business

In this episode Scott Becker shares the lasted news and stats on the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this episode Scott Becker discusses:

Market indexes surged higher yesterday with the Nasdaq up 2.1%, the S&P up 1.6% and the Dow up 1.1%.

Futures point up this am.

The ten year treasury yield opens around 1.46.

The Fed announced it will quicken it's reduction in bond buying to all but finish it entirely by March.

The Fed also said it expects three interest rate increases in 2022.

The Bank of England already initiated a rate increase.

The interest rate increases will impact stock and real estate prices.

Covid is surging.

In this episode Scott Becker discusses:

The markets fell nearly 1% yesterday.

Covid deaths were at 1,780 yesterday, new cases were at 116,000, and hospitalized were at 61,000.

Three types of centric for most businesses. Niche centric, customer centric, and team centric.

In this episode Scott Becker discusses the recent deal frenzy. The last few days has seen the following announcements:

Hard Rock to buy Mirage for $1.9 billion

Parthenon to buy Kroll Bond Rating Agency for $900 million

Pfizer to acquire Arena Pharma for $6.7 billion

Vox Media is seeking to merge with Group Nine

In this episode Scott Becker shares the lasted news and stats on the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this episode Scott Becker discusses:

COVID-19 Deaths average 1,270 a day over the last 7 days.

The market indexes fell yesterday with the Dow and S&P down .9% and the Nasdaq down 1.4%.

The market futures are slightly down to start this AM.

Moderna and Pfizer both rose 5.8 and 4.6 percent respectively on news of need for more vaccines.

The 10 year treasury yield dropped to 1.42%.

Bitcoin dropped 6.2% yesterday.

Ares raised an $8 billion private credit fund.

The Deal frenzy continues.

In this episode Scott Becker discusses two stats impacting Fed decision making.

In this episode Scott Becker discusses:

The markets fell yesterday with the Nasdaq down 1.7 percent and the S&P 500 down .7 percent and the Dow largely flat.

Futures point up this am.

The 10 year treasury yield finished largely flat yesterday and opens at 1.487 this am.

American Airlines indicated it will be shedding some flights from its schedule.

McDonalds continues to perform well.

United Health both the nation's largest payor and one of the largest firms in the nation by revenues continues to essentially print money.

Jobless claims fell to 184,000.

Costco continues to perform great with sales rising 9.8 percent for same store sales.

Tyson spending $1.9 billion on robots to help automate.

In this episode Scott discusses the concept of at what point does one give up on a late meeting participant.

In this episode Scott Becker shares leadership advice from a recent podcast recording with Diana Jones, Author of “Leadership Levers”.