Q1 dealmaking takes a dive

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Corporate dealmakers hoped merger and acquisition ventures would heat up this year. But the first quarter of 2025 saw the slowest M&A activity in more than a decade, according to Dealogic. In this episode, why firms aren’t shelling out billions to buy another company in this economy. Plus: Nintendo announces a new Switch console, Gen Z suffers in a low-hire, low-fire job market, and a new study shows nonwhite bankruptcy filers face a lower likelihood of debt relief.

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0:58.2	It's Tariff Day again. From American Public Media, this is Marketplace.
1:09.1	In Washington, D.C., I'm Kimberly Adams in for Kai Rizdahl.
1:17.4	It's Wednesday, April 2nd.
1:19.1	Good to have you along.
1:20.6	President Trump announced a new round of tariffs this afternoon, what he called
1:25.1	discounted reciprocal tariffs, but including tax rates ranging
1:29.3	from 10 to almost 50 percent on goods coming from America's trading partners. The president also
1:35.1	highlighted the 25 percent tax on imported cars and auto parts that's scheduled to kick in just
1:40.9	after midnight tonight. One of the president's stated goals for all these
1:45.0	tariffs is to get more companies to make more products here in the United States. And to do that,
1:51.4	many would need to build new factories and hire a whole lot of people to work in those factories.
1:58.2	But are there enough workers with the right skills to fill all those
2:02.6	hypothetical new manufacturing jobs? Marketplaces Samantha Fields has more.
2:08.1	The U.S. once led the world in manufacturing. These days, China does. But Willie Shee at Harvard
2:13.8	Business School, says we still make plenty of things. We do have a large auto industry.
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