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The owner of Peet’s Coffee has fast-tracked its initial public offering thanks to strong investor demand
Our analysts look at how you might be able to profit from the booming online grocery trend – Read Now
The US government’s plan to review rules protecting social media companies could expose Alphabet, Facebook, and Twitter to major lawsuits

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Rise And Shine!

What’s Going On Here?

JDE Peet’s brightened up investors’ mornings with a charming novelty for these pandemic-fatigued times: a fast-tracked $2.9 billion initial public offering (IPO).

What Does This Mean?

Shares in JDE – the world’s second-biggest maker of packaged coffee, and owner of brands like Douwe Egberts, Peet’s Coffee, and Jacobs – are set to wake up bright and early on Friday to start trading on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. The company’s raising $2.9 billion in an IPO that values the company at more than $17 billion – a number that's caught the attention of big-name buyers like George Soros (tweet this).

Coronavirus-related travel restrictions mean JDE had to hold an all-virtual roadshow, just like videoconferencing company Pexip did a few weeks ago. But that’s helped speed this whole process up: JDE is wrapping up its IPO in ten days rather than the usual four weeks, making it one of the fastest IPOs of its size. Probably a wise move, given that no one knows when the next bout of coronavirus-induced market volatility is going to hit…

Why Should I Care?

For markets: A good cup of Joe.
JDE plans to use the proceeds from the IPO to outbrew its main coffee rivals: Starbucks, Nestlé, and Green Mountain Coffee. One way it plans to do that is by buying up smaller rivals, which will be a lot more straightforward thanks to the tough terms it’s negotiated with its suppliers. JDE pays them up to 300 days after it buys their coffee beans, freeing up plenty of cash for those tasty, tasty takeovers.

The bigger picture: No ‘bucks given.
With so many coffee shops shut due to coronavirus restrictions, coffee-drinkers are increasingly getting their caffeine fix at home. That gives JDE the edge over Starbucks, which – despite recruiting Nestlé to sell its coffee in grocery stores – still makes most of its revenue from physical coffee shops. JDE, on the other hand, makes almost 80% of its revenue from grocery sales.

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What’s Going On Here?

Grocery sales are soaring on both sides of the Atlantic, helped by a significant shift towards online food shopping. But the curbside combat could be over before it’s even begun…

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DotComplicated

What’s Going On Here?

The US government revealed plans this week that might eliminate measures currently protecting some of the biggest internet companies from serious lawsuits – and concerned investors just want to know where they stand, y’know?

What Does This Mean?

As it is, America’s online platforms – including social media sites – are protected from liability for user-posted content under federal law. And that’s probably a big relief to them given the sheer number of cases of harassment and libel in recent years.

But the US government now seems to be arguing that since the Twitters of the world have taken to editing their users’ posts – by, say, fact-checking certain high-profile users – they might now forfeit those protections. And if that is what the review concludes, social media giants could be responsible for what their users post and open to legal action if it falls foul of the laws of the land.

Why Should I Care?

For markets: Du-nuh… du-nuh…
At-risk companies saw their share prices fall on Thursday – including Facebook’s by 2% and Twitter’s by 4% – possibly because they could face the “negative jaws” of falling revenue and rising costs. The potential for increased legal fees, settlements, and damages, after all, would leave them less cash to reinvest in future growth or to return to investors. Taking steps to more proactively police users’ posts would increase costs too – and it may even put some users off, reducing activity and lowering the ad revenue the social giants are able to generate.

Zooming in: Mar(k)y Mar(k)y, quite contrar(k)y.
When Twitter announced it’d ban political ads on its platform last year, Facebook made no such promise. And it’s taken the other side of this debate too: Facebook’s CEO said on Thursday that he doesn’t think it’s social networks’ responsibility to fact-check politicians. Those diverging ideologies may foreshadow a split in their user bases, and could ultimately result in each having a smaller, if more engaged, audience.

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Today's big stories

Rise And Shine!

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What Does This Mean?

Why Should I Care?

One Doorstep Ahead

🇺🇸 Red, White, And Oooh!

DotComplicated

What’s Going On Here?

What Does This Mean?

Why Should I Care?

🥩 Mouth-watering opportunities with Stake

📆 Got plans this week?

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