Hints and tips:
...Musk, in a letter to Twitter chair Bret Taylor, has said he is exploring how to allow some existing shareholders to invest in the company once it is private....
...“CLOs have survived the market swoon intact,” said Bret Leas, who runs Apollo’s structured credit business. “Therefore the asset class continues to gain more widespread acceptance....
...And all of a sudden, Bret and Stewart come together and say, yes, we can do this,” Mr Benioff said, referring to Salesforce president Bret Taylor and Slack chief executive Stewart Butterfield....
...The S&P 500 opened 0.3 per cent lower and the tech-focused Nasdaq Composite dropped more than 1 per cent....
...“Today is a head scratcher,” said Bret Barker, the head of government debt at asset manager TCW....
...In the US, PayPal and Square have risen 33 per cent and 26 per cent respectively, whereas the S&P 500 is still down by a tenth....
...The benchmark S&P 500 index climbed 1.7 per cent, back to levels last seen in September, months before coronavirus infections had first been identified....
...Bret Easton Ellis described a character in American Psycho, his searing satire of yuppie culture, as looking like “a big black ant in an original Christian Lacroix”....
...We’re Generation X: we started out disillusioned — “a generation as pessimistic and ironic as any other that ever roamed the earth”, writes Bret Easton Ellis....
...During quarterly earnings on Wednesday, Mr Benioff essentially said Quip, bought for $750m last month, was an “acquihire” for chief executive Bret Taylor....
...Bret Barker, portfolio manager at TCW said the negative reaction in equities and Treasury bonds reflected markets “hitting the pause button” after a big rally in prices in recent weeks....
...The benchmark S&P 500 index overcame the previous session’s losses, up 0.8 per cent to close at 934.70....
...If there is one statistic that excites Bret Wise, it is that the number of 50-somethings in the US without any teeth has almost halved in the past 20 years....
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