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...That’s a chart of Jane Street’s net trading revenues, as ripped from this article by MainFT’s Eric Platt. And that is the share price of Dr. Martens since IPO....
...Berkshire also exited its investments in payments business StoneCo, insurers Globe Life and Markel Corporation, and homebuilder DR Horton....
...Employ America & Institute for Progress) — DJ Ponzi (New York Magazine) — Former Fed vice chair Randal Quarles on bank-capital regs, SVB and stress tests (Intrafi’s ‘Banking with Interest’ podcast) — Nelson...
...A selection of around 120 of these guitars and amplifiers are being placed on sale by Christie’s on 31 January, including the custom-made instrument he played alongside Eric Clapton at the Nelson Mandela...
...The purchase of DR Horton shares will make Berkshire one of the company’s 10 largest shareholders with about 1.8 per cent of the stock....
...Berkshire disclosed it had purchased 6mn shares of DR Horton, worth about $726mn at the end of the second quarter, as well as 152,572 shares in Lennar and 11,112 shares of NVR....
...Dr Bleddyn Bowen, a global expert in space policy and international relations, called it “one of the most successful treaties ever created”....
...Nonetheless, Eric Farnsworth of the Council of the Americas in Washington says that under Abinader the DR “does seem to have turned a corner”....
...JPMorgan Chase has named Eric Menell and Gian Piero Sammartano to new roles as heads of the bank’s sports investment banking coverage....
...The former Google CEO Eric Schmidt describes AI-designed bioweapons as “a very near-term concern”. Governments are finally waking up to the scale of emerging biological risks....
...It was also influenced, Jacobs said, by the way off-duty models around him were dressing, mixing thrift-shop silk dresses with thermal underwear, wool beanies and Dr Martens boots....
...Doesn’t Jeff Bezos look like Dr Evil in that second-page spread?...
...Peltz vs Disney, the sequel The stage has been set for a battle between Nelson Peltz, the founder of activist fund Trian Partners, and Disney chief executive Bob Iger....
...In one case, he used the Westchester mansion of billionaire Nelson Peltz as a basis to increase the stated value of a nearby Trump estate....
...My beauty and wellbeing gurus are Josh Wood, the king of colour; Debbie Thomas and Dr Vicky Dondos for hi-tech beauty; and Idris Moudi at Natural Moves for Pilates....
...Nelson also gives DeSantis a pass on his reluctance to take on Trump more directly. “Who wins in a mudslinging contest, right?...
...Eric Kalala, the newly appointed boss of EGC, says it is “more than urgent” to roll out the agency’s action plan, but many doubt much progress will be made before the country’s general election expected...
...But the rollercoaster valuations of other shoe brands like Dr. Martens and Crocs raises doubts over whether any brand is immune to fashion trends, the FT’s John Gapper notes....
...Its landscape, at turns brooding, dramatic and otherworldly, conjures up both a rocky garden where Cain might have slaughtered Abel and a wonderland dreamt up by Dr Seuss or Haruki Murakami....
...Read the full report from Eric here....
...AT&T is among the biggest users of such financing, ranking alongside the likes of Keurig Dr Pepper and Target. It far outstrips telco rival Verizon in its usage of such facilities....
...Squinting in the late afternoon sun on a square in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday, lawyer Justin Nelson told the world’s media there would finally be “vindication and accountability” for lies...
...“I don’t think it’s a supply chain issue,” says Eric Wind, a vintage watch dealer and widely respected Rolex authority. He says the current demand for the Swiss company’s watches is unprecedented....
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