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Warehouse, meet warehouse | The UK economy shrunk... again | [TOGETHER WITH]( Hi {NAME}, here's what you need to know for June 14th in 3:09 minutes. 🥳 The day you’re most excited about this year – right? – is just around the corner: join us for the [Finimize NFT Fest]( on Wednesday, and earn your digital chops in expert workshops and intimate Q&A sessions with pros from industries far and wide. [Grab your free ticket]( Today's big stories - Warehouse giant Prologis agreed a deal to buy smaller rival Duke Realty - Our analyst evaluated some past financial crises, and he thinks he knows what the next one will look like – [Read Now]( - The UK economy shrank again in April Final Bid [Final Bid] What’s Going On Here? Warehousing giant Prologis [announced]( on Monday that it’s buying smaller rival Duke Realty. What Does This Mean? Prologis already controls about a billion square feet of warehouses and distribution centers for the likes of Amazon, Home Depot, and FedEx. But hungry for more, Prologis has been courting Duke Realty for a while now: the giant first approached its smaller rival back in November, and recently made an “insufficient” offer worth $24 billion last month. And its determination has paid off: the two companies just shook hands on an all-stock deal worth $26 billion, with Duke’s shareholders receiving almost half of a Prologis share for each of their existing ones ([tweet this](). The deal – Prologis’s first in two years – will see the world’s biggest warehouse owner claim industrial real estate in some popular locations, from sunny Southern California to the vast land in Dallas, Texas. Prologis believes that could help it make up to $400 million in extra earnings every year. No wonder it was so persistent… Why Should I Care? The bigger picture: Buy, don’t build. There’s a reason Prologis was so keen to sign the deal: the ongoing online shopping boom has sent demand for warehouses through the roof, leaving only 3.4% of US warehouses vacant in the first three months of this year. And while developers have rushed to start building more, rents are already soaring for existing locations. But Prologis is ahead of the curve: it can profit more from those higher rents much faster with this deal than it could if it built them from scratch. Zooming out: Rent’s cheap. Warehousing might be going strong, but other areas of the real estate market are cooling down. In fact, one of the biggest real estate investors in the world [says]( the US and European markets are seeing a downward shift in prices as higher interest rates dampen demand: it said it’s even seen prices fall around 5 to 10% from last year in some areas. You might also like: [Is now a good time to buy your dream property?]( Copy to share story: [( 🙋 [Ask a question](mailto:questions@finimize.com?body=Ask us a question: Where are you writing from? Let us know and we'll mention it when we reply.&noapp=true&subject=Final Bid&utm_campaign=daily-global-14-06-2022&utm_source=email) Analyst Take What Will The Next Crisis Look Like? [What Will The Next Crisis Look Like? ]( [Photo of Stéphane Renevier] Stéphane Renevier, Analyst Will it resemble the [dotcom bust]( in 2000, with its low interest rates, tech innovations, and a boom in certain speculative assets? Or the [global financial crisis of 2008](, when financial engineering increased risk around the world? Or are we going way back to the late 1970s, when low growth and high inflation created a [stagflation crisis](? As Mark Twain famously said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Maybe, then, it’ll be [a bit of each](. So that’s today’s Insight: we’re looking at past crises, and predicting [what the next one might look like](. SPONSORED BY INNOVEGA Become a visionary investor Searching for an investment that changes the way you see the world? Innovega’s game-changing smart contact lenses and lightweight glasses use augmented reality to help the visually impaired – including the legally blind – reclaim their independence. That’s a big market: [217 million patients](, to be exact. And now you can [invest in Innovega’s vision](: the company is crowdfunding on [StartEngine]( after previously raising over $16 million. Built by vision scientists, engineers, and industry leaders, Innovega’s vision is to transform AR and VR markets that are forecast to exceed $90 billion. And this is just the beginning: [Innovega]( plans to make an impact in the metaverse too. 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The production and construction sectors dropped by 0.6% and 0.4% too, partly because businesses were hindered by supply shortages and higher prices. That’s the first time all those sectors have simultaneously dipped since January 2021, and that pushed the UK economy to shrink 0.3% in April from the month before – way off the 0.1% growth economists expected. Why Should I Care? The bigger picture: Careful, there. The UK economy hasn’t grown for three straight months, suggesting the country’s recovery has well and truly stalled. In fact, economists now predict the economy will shrink 0.4% this quarter, well below the Bank of England’s (BoE’s) 0.1% growth forecast. But with energy prices set to push inflation even higher later this year, economists think the central bank will be forced to keep hiking rates. Still, since the economy’s looking so weak, it’s widely expected the BoE will stay away from big hikes and stick to 0.25% when it makes its announcement later this week. Zooming out: Up, up, and away. Rising commodity prices have been pushing up prices of goods around the world, so much so that new research from Citi predicts consumers will pay producers $5.2 trillion more this year than they did before the pandemic. And the longer supply issues continue, the worse it could get: Citi warned of more countries hoarding supplies instead of exporting them, which would put even more pressure on prices. You might also like: [The long-term opportunity emerging from Britain’s rising interest rates.]( Copy to share story: [( 🙋 [Ask a question](mailto:questions@finimize.com?body=Ask us a question: Where are you writing from? 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