The 18 Picture Of "Money" In 2015 Is Clear At A Glance.

At the end of the year, how much do you know about the story of "money" in 2015?

In the past year, giant companies have been acquiring large scale mergers and acquisitions, hedge funds performing poorly and venture capital competing for a number of Unicorn companies.

Let's take a look. (Note: data up to December 15, 2015).

Market value hit a record $775 billion.

Netflix led the S & P 500 index.

Sales of investment grade corporate bonds for the first time amounted to $1 trillion and 310 billion.

For the first time since 2008, there has been a loss.

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Merger and acquisition

The total amount of open mergers and acquisitions exceeded 4 trillion US dollars.

in super-large scale

(over US $10 billion) was the largest in history.

Pfizer bought the biggest M & A this year.

Blackstone is the biggest winner in mergers and acquisitions.

The total size of IPO in the United States has reached a new low since 2009.

The scale of stock issuance exceeds 1 trillion US dollars, a record high.

Total venture capital investment jumped 39%, a record high.

Venture capital completed 6 investment of more than one billion dollars, a record high of {page_break}

Employment situation

The number of layoffs has hit a new high since 2009.

More than half of the redundancies in the United States come from these five companies.

Market fluctuation

Of the US mutual funds whose assets exceed 100 million US dollars, only three have a return of more than 25%.

Hedge funds generally rose less than 1%.

Venezuela's sovereign debt risk is the highest in the world, while Germany is still near zero risk.

The wealth of some billionaires has increased dramatically, while some have shrunk in wealth.