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...Common Ground was acquired by The Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles in January, where it is still used to spark dialogue during meals. The simple plate has a lot to say, it seems....
...On its Investment Outlook 2024’s web page, the report — “A balancing act for growth and inflation” — is illustrated by a man who looks like he is practising his goal kick technique on a chair: The image...
...Remember that at the time a lot of people thought this would become a redux of the S&L crisis and that a recession was unavoidable as banks retrenched....
...The reason, we think, is that this cycle is different from prior high-inflation periods....
...A chain of salons based in Texas, European Wax Center, is confident they are....
...“[Petrol prices] have been much more important than we’ve seen in the past five, six election cycles,” said Travis Ridout, the project’s co-director....
...It is more legitimate and it is this antidote to the media cycle online.” Could she be doing Anna Wintour’s job in 15 years’ time?...
...Catastrophe bonds, conceived in the wake of 1992’s exceptionally destructive Hurricane Andrew, went steadily mainstream after 9/11....
...And the Pew Research Center found the ranks of India’s poor, defined as those earning less than $2 a day, swelled by 75m in 2020, before the most recent wave....
...Over the past year, his role as point of liaison with the White House, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration allowed CVS Health to become a leading provider...
...Bruce Freed, president of the Center for Political Accountability, says his arrival would create a three-person majority for increased disclosure of political activity....
...Over the past decade, the five largest listed supermajors have delivered average total shareholder returns of just 5 per cent versus the S&P 500’s 14 per cent....
...Energy stocks accounted for 16 per cent of the value of companies on the S&P 500 in 2008. Today that figure is less than 3 per cent. But the problem has become urgent....
...“It’s a vicious cycle until the Vix goes down.” Energy and materials stocks led the US market lower as Brent crude slid 2.8 per cent to $54.75....
...Refining is a cyclical business, says Rick Joswick, head of S&P Global’s refining analysis. “And this is going to be one of the bad years.” The surplus is extreme....
...That means the customer base for the healthcare sector is set to grow and push spending higher in the coming years, with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a federal agency, projecting national...
...and 4) a 1998-02 credit cycle....
...Rather than the 40,000 people that normally fill the cavernous CHI Health Center for the occasion, he faced nothing but a bunch of video cameras....
...Francisco Rodríguez is a visiting professor at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University....
...In Washington last week, Moral Money heard a pro-business lobbyist say that the BRT’s stakeholder announcement was conveniently timed at the end of the business cycle....
...The energy sector’s share of the S&P 500 today is already down to about 4 per cent, from more than 11 per cent in 2010....
...Through hundreds of thousands of cycles of trial and error, the two systems can create immensely lifelike videos....
...But more likely, many believe, is a steady deterioration in Mexico’s economy, raising the prospect of “a vicious cycle of stagnation and credit rating downgrades”, says ING’s Mr Rangel....
...Data centers, with their large fixed costs for cooling, hardware and construction, don't come cheap....
...Since early November the bond’s yield has dropped from 3.45 per cent, representing a big rotation towards the long-end, pre-empting a slowing late-cycle economy facing rising credit stress....
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