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The SPAC boom is losing steam. Here are 3 signs the high-flying market is coming back down to earth.
The recent price performance of blank-check companies may indicate the SPAC frenzy is fading, thoug…
Emily Graffeo  Â
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US SEC official warns SPAC dealmakers of the risks and complexities tied to blank-check mergers
A US markets watchdog official on Wednesday warned blank-check company dealmakers to carefully cons…
Shalini Nagarajan  Â
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The lawyers that sued Bill Ackman's SPAC are reportedly targeting 50 more as the merger boom deflates
The lawsuit against Ackman's Pershing Square Tontine Holdings has led Ackman to pursue alternative …
Matthew Fox  Â
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The SPAC market is booming, but there are plenty of bad buys. Here's what 8 experts say investors should be looking for in their next SPAC investment.
The recent SPAC boom has brought a wave of investors into risky early-stage businesses - and expert…
Emily Graffeo,Will Daniel  Â
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3 stats that show just how much investor appetite for SPACs has declined
As interest rates climb, most SPACs have underperformed the market, along with other high growth, l…
Emily Graffeo  Â
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Bill Gates says companies have gone from staying private too long to going public too soon and that he's avoiding 'low quality' SPACs
"We've kind of flipped from a world where companies would probably stay private too long, to now...…
Will Daniel  Â
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Two new ETFs will be purely exposed to post-SPAC public companies - and one of them is going short
"You can decide how you want to play it, from the long side or the short side," said the CEO of Tut…
Natasha Dailey  Â
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Goldman Sachs creates SPAC team in Hong Kong amid surging Asian interest in blank-check companies
The strategic team was set up last year but was not made public, according to Reuters.
Isabelle Lee  Â
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SEC official warns on red-hot SPAC market and says the blank-check firms have significant and undiscovered issues
An SEC official warned about the rapid growth in SPAC deals and said the surge is raising questions…
Carla Mozée  Â
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UBS has reportedly barred its advisors from pitching certain SPAC stocks to wealth management clients
UBS is said to be allowing its advisors to trade SPAC stocks for clients only on an unsolicited bas…
Matthew Fox  Â
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Hundreds of SPACs have over $1 trillion in purchasing power following a boom in the blank-check firms amid the pandemic
In just the past week, 24 SPACs went public and more of the blank-check companies have already debu…
Matthew Fox  Â
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Goldman Sachs says it is seeing a "superbloom" of M&A activity as corporations rethink their businesses after the pandemic
David Dubner, Goldman Sachs' global head of M&A, discussed the recent rise in M&A, separation activ…
Will Daniel  Â
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SPAC boom fades as ETFs tracking blank-check firms crater amid risk-off sentiment
More than 200 SPACs have debuted so far in 2021, raising $70 billion, nearly eclipsing the amount S…
Matthew Fox  Â
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The SPAC boom has become a 'mania' and sponsors should be more tethered to growth projections, former NYSE President Tom Farley says
Former NYSE President Tom Farley said SPACs have become a "mania" and valuations are "untethered fr…
Will Daniel  Â
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Investors are worried Bill Ackman's SPAC is struggling to find an acquisition target
"If we cannot get this transaction done, we will move on to target number two," Ackman said on an i…
Natasha Dailey  Â
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SPACs could drive $900 billion of dealmaking over the next 2 years despite the boom slowing, Goldman says
The SPAC boom has cooled in the second quarter, but Goldman said blank-check companies will keep po…
Harry Robertson  Â
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Legendary investor Bill Miller says the window is closing on the SPAC market, but singles out 2 names that remain attractive
Bill Miller in an interview Tuesday said the SPAC craze may be winding down. So far in 2021, 308 SP…
Isabelle Lee  Â
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Reddit traders appear to be targeting a heavily shorted mortgage lender for their next squeeze
Mortgage lender UWM Holdings went public via SPAC with a $16 billion valuation earlier this year, a…
Natasha Dailey  Â
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Billy Beane-led SPAC fails to strike deal to take Boston Red Sox public, report says
RedBall Acquisition Corp. will now set its sights on other acquisition targets, potentially in pro …
Matthew Fox  Â
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SPAC activity may be peaking right now and will slow for the rest of 2021, JPMorgan says
"This year's acceleration in SPAC activity...is more reminiscent of a peak rather than the beginnin…