Equity Monday: Market pessimism, brand-new iPhones, and IPOs

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Vacation was excellent, and a big thanks to Mary Ann and Natasha — — not to mention Grace and Chris! — — for keeping things flowing while I mainly relaxed checking out books and playing computer game. Enough being maudlin! To the news!

• Financiers are kinda thinking that the run-up in stocks needs to relax. Which the reset might land between 5% and 10%, with another 10% of respondents expecting a correction of more than 10%. Yowza.
• China may break up Ant, keeping the speed of its regulative deluge going as this week begins. And the Chinese government believes that its country has too many EV companies. If the marketplace or main planning will wind up taking point on resolving the “problem” is not clear.
• The Apple v. Legendary choice is still driving discussion. Here’s TechCrunch’s protection, and here’s the MG piece I mentioned.
• Toast and Freshworks have brand-new filings up. If you want to dig into new S-1/ A reports, which is excellent news. Forge is going public through a SPAC.
• And Babyscripts and Commercetools raised rounds, while Jungle Ventures raised a fund.

Got all that? Ok great. Talk you Wednesday!

Article curated by RJ Shara from Source. RJ Shara is a Bay Area Radio Host (Radio Jockey) who talks about the startup ecosystem – entrepreneurs, investments, policies and more on her show The Silicon Dreams. The show streams on Radio Zindagi 1170AM on Mondays from 3.30 PM to 4 PM.