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Private Equity

All in the Franchise: Why Private Equity Loves the Business Model

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It’s understandable if you failed to notice one meaty if unglamorous trend on Wall Street: Private equity’s love affair with franchising.

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Media & Entertainment

Will 2025 be the Year Regulation Comes for Sports Betting?

The odds of an increase in regulation of the massive, and growing, sports-betting industry may be shifting.

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Healthcare

2025 is the Year of the Weight Loss Pill

Traditionally, New Year’s resolutions to lose weight involve getting to the gym more. In a post-GLP-1 world, that’s looking less necessary.

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Industrials

Loser of 2024: Boeing

There were plenty of business losers in 2024, but only one for whom the sky was literally falling. In short: Boeing had a bad year.

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