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...At one meeting, a senior staff member likened the trend of fewer people watching longer videos on YouTube to how people are reading fewer books, as it requires more time and focus....
...The release of the list of companies that disclosed business plans came as the Nikkei 225 index briefly rose 1.2 per cent on Monday to cross the 36,000 mark for the first time since 1990, propelled by investor...
...This can be seen as a version of the above, but in this case the important business unit is right on the other side of the world, and is in a volatile market which requires emergency decisions to be made...
...Most companies consider salaries as fixed costs that cannot be cut in downturns like other expenses....
...She added: “Writing this book while also doing this job was a challenge.”...
...But for the newsletter business’s newer — and more profitable — members, the presence of neo-Nazis on the same platform means that they are either quitting Substack or making noises about doing so....
...Her book, “Investing to Save the Planet”, is published by Penguin Business. X: @aliceemross...
...Bonuses are discretionary, reflecting the logic that team members across the companies contribute....
...The business of book publishing is rarely a thriller. But the sale of Simon & Schuster has become a page turner....
...Daunt is one of the most powerful figures in the book industry, which has boomed in recent years as people returned to reading during the pandemic as an affordable pastime....
...s valuation is hard to interpret because the company keeps its profit margins intentionally low.)...
...Now, the barbarians are weighing entering the book business itself....
...“We are publishing the list of the companies’ actual names who did disclose [but] obviously we have only 3,300 companies listed on the prime and standard [markets] . . . you can subtract . . . it’s not a...
...Early in his term as head of JPX, which controls the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), Yamaji pointed out that roughly half the companies listed in the top tier of the TSE have undervalued stocks, with price-to-book...
...America’s biggest banks are doing just fine. Businesses and consumers are still spending and borrowing, even as interest rates remain at a 22-year high....
...the UK’s reputation as a place where legitimate business can thrive.”...
...Surely the hunt to get young users hooked on a platform as soon as possible, as part of running a profitable business, is at odds with caring for their wellbeing?...
...I’m not suggesting that the mutual fund mavens are in as bad a spot as the companies who were publishing Yellow Pages 20 years ago. There is a huge amount of inertia in retail investing....
...One imperfect but useful comparison is with the New York Times, which is mostly a pure-play newspaper business, without News Corp’s exposure to real estate advertising, Australian pay-TV and book publishing...
...Similarly, the Fed publishes its so-called Beige Book eight times a year; this report publishes informal market colour from all 12 Fed districts from “key business contacts, economists, market experts, and...
...The move by the US rating agency highlights the unease of many foreign companies doing business in the world’s second-largest economy. 3....
...While not quite as famous as the other Jimmy Stewart, the author is without a doubt one of the most revered business journalists of his generation....
...on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...I’m midway through investigative journalist Eyal Press’s excellent book Dirty Work, which examines the often appalling conditions faced by people doing society’s toughest, most thankless tasks, such as slaughterhouse...
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