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Wall Street is open again and it's booming.

From Morgan Stanley to BlackRock, the world's top investment banks and money managers are back in their offices,

and they're super busy with mergers, IPOs, LBOs, and other activities thumping.

Plus, Soho House and Wise Go Public and green

hydrogen megalomania on the Congo River. Stay tuned.

Welcome to the Viewsroom. I'm Rob Cox, the editor of Breaking Views, the

financial commentary arm of Reuters News, and I'm coming to you from

a very much back to work, Manhattan. Having gone around the big investment banks and money

managers this week, I can tell you with absolute certainty that Wall Street is not only back,

it's freaking booming. The corporate advisory business, in particular, is thumping with M&A,

initial public offerings, debt underwriting,

and leverage biode activity reaching new highs, and pipelines apparently bulging with future deals.

In fact, when I asked one of the top M&A advisors how things could go any better, he said,

if we could hire the people fast enough to meet the business that's coming our way.

Other than that, there's nothing.

John Foley, our U.S. editor

and Wall Street columnists break some of this down with me. After that, I hand the mic over to Peter Thal Larson and Liam Proud in London to go over two of the more interesting IPOs coming out of Europe, Soho House, the private club operator, and Wise, the payments group. Their basic verdict, one is a buy, the other well, a beware.

And later in the show, I'll hand over to colleagues in Hong Kong and Melbourne

to dissect a new green megaproject cooked up by Fortescue Metals Chairman Andrew Twiggy Forest.

Australia's richest man is the latest in a line of developers over the decades,

hoping to tap the vast power of the Congo River,

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