Private equity exit backlog and marks. Trillions of unsold companies that must eventually meet a public or strategic buyer.
What to watch: Unsold portfolio value; secondaries pricing; continuation funds. It arrives quarterly, and the effect typically lasts years.
It sits in tier 3 — Flows and mechanics: Moves prices without changing anything fundamental, on horizons from hours to weeks. Who is forced to buy or sell, and when. Ignore this tier and market moves will regularly look inexplicable.
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Also in Corporate actions and stock-specific events
- Individual earnings reports and guidance
- Pre-announcements and profit warnings
- Mergers and acquisitions
- IPOs, lockup expirations, and secondaries
- Share issuance and dilution
- Insider buying and selling
- Activist investors and 13D filings
- 13F holdings disclosures
- Analyst upgrades, downgrades, and price targets
- Short-seller reports and accounting questions
- Management and board changes
- Product launches, trial results, and approvals
- Litigation, settlements, and product liability
- Corporate credit rating changes
- Dividend cuts, initiations, and special dividends
- Stock splits
- Index inclusion and deletion
- IPO window and public-market shrinkage
- FDA approvals and PDUFA dates