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Data Update 2 for 2025: The Party Continued (for US Equities)

Musings on Markets

The hopeful note was that the Fed would lower the Fed Funds rate during the course of the year, triggering (at least in the minds of Fed watchers) lower interest rates across the yield curve, Clearly, the market not only fought through those concerns, but did so in the face of rising treasury rates, especially at the long end of the spectrum.

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My Business Is Unique – Will Buyers Have Interest?

A Neumann & Associates

Using the 5-year US Treasury as a market proxy, one can see that interest rates fluctuated between 1% and 3% from 2015 through the end of 2018 when 5-year rates began a steady decline to a low of.22% The number of private equity investors and funds currently active in the market is enormous. 22% in August 2020.

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Scheme of Arrangement for Acquisition of i3 Energy plc Becomes Effective

Benzinga

Total Voting Rights Following Admission, Gran Tierra will have total issued share capital of 36,460,141 common shares, and holds no common shares in treasury. The Consideration Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with Gran Tierra's existing shares of common stock of par value USD0.001 per share.