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...Other popular toy sales this holiday season include Lego, puzzles and card games, and gaming items such as the Nintendo Switch....
...Roger Aliaga-Diaz, Vanguard’s chief economist for the Americas and head of portfolio construction, maintains that knee-jerk responses to market upsets are unwise....
...That same year, an unauthorised English translation of an explosive essay he co-authored, titled “The Japan That Can Say No”, went viral among America’s elite....
...With one-year Treasuries at 5.4 per cent, Bank of America is still offering a measly 0.01 per cent on its savings accounts and the national average one-year CD pays just 1.6 per cent....
...It’s an unintentional history of capital, philanthropy and robber barons; it shows you the underworld of America’s elite....
...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
...On Wednesday Microsoft signed a 10-year deal to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo platforms for the first time in almost a decade....
...News round-up Blackstone chief dismisses concerns over $69bn real estate fund (FT + Alphaville) Microsoft signs 10-year ‘Call of Duty’ deal with Nintendo (FT) DWS weighs sale of private equity secondaries...
...Which fintech tie-ups do you see happening by the end of the year? Reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to let us know. Happy reading!...
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...‘Perfect scenario’ Those look like V-shaped projections, Andrew Glenn thought to himself....
...Automation an automatic choiceJapan Inc has found a new purpose for automation: business continuity in the uncertain era of Covid-19....
...This doesn’t mean we are in the midst of a V-shaped recovery, however....
...But after a few months of exclusivity, developers will be free to release their games on PCs or other games consoles such as Nintendo’s Switch or Sony’s PlayStation. Apple declined to comment....
...The V&A’s London press view last week for its exhibition Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser was its first foray into virtual reality and it is one of several museums investigating whether VR could offer vital...
...Tech tools — Paper Mario: The Origami King Talking of cartoonish characters, a cardboard cut-out version of Mario features in a new game for the Nintendo Switch released today....
...Since Trump took office it has already plummeted, and any Chinese investment in America is already regarded with great suspicion. The US president may be targeting TikTok for political reasons....
...The coronavirus pandemic has turned the US government into a financing source of last resort for swaths of corporate America, but the socialisation of risk and the picking of winners and losers has concerned...
...Nintendo’s portfolio of characters is regarded as the most valuable that Disney does not already own....
...In the good old days before coronavirus, Japan Inc stood accused of irrational hoarding of money that was better off in the pockets of shareholders....
...“I would say that, as a team, we've pretty well discounted a uniform V-shaped recovery. The question is, is it U-shaped, is it W-shaped or parts of it L-shaped?”...
...Although its parent company, Interpublic Group Cos Inc, installed female leadership at the Martin Agency, IPG’s board remained the same....
...Bank of America dealmaker Diego Fortunati is moving to Goldman Sachs as a managing director specialising in industrial M&A based in London, Reuters reported....
...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Focus on the haystack — not on the needles / From Brendan P Geary, Washington, DC, US Active v passive: put more faith in market forces / From...
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