Hints and tips:
...WhatsApp to WesPete: Yes I’d be delighted to join your informal advisory group. I don’t claim to be an expert but if you can use a near term realist, I’m happy to help. WhatsApp to Stephen: We’re in....
...WhatsApp to Stephen: No luck on a shadow cabinet speaker!! I’m beginning to feel a bit exposed on Labour....
...And I’m slightly sceptical that anyone else knows how to do it, either. But I’m open to suggestions....
...I’m not sure the justice department needs to help out. Your feedback And now a word from our Swampians . . ....
...I’d order her a glass of, say, Australian Sémillon, and she’d rate it for me....
...I’m not sure if the second-tier social media companies are profitable, even when their revenues rise into the billions....
...Now I’m closing the loop, replying to his reply. Khosrowshahi makes three points and I’m sympathetic to two of them....
...“I am a very calculated guy. I’m a banker . . . We’re not stupid and we want to succeed.”...
...I’d want to see comparisons of leadership today to financial performance a decade hence. A single financial measure is not nearly enough, and operating margins are a particularly bad choice....
...Or would you be more likely to say: “I’m looking for a great outfit for a holiday party, and I want it to feel like this”?...
...They spend a lot of money on R&D. They are among the largest patent holders. There’s very little evidence of collusion. They seem to be competing with each other quite strongly....
...“And they will probably make a somewhat more modest ask for optics reasons. But I’d be stunned if they didn’t ask for a fee, in whatever form, worth multiple billions of dollars.”...
...They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out.” “It’s so simple. You spend less than you earn....
...So I think it still makes sense given the — even if it’s a low probability of success — I’m laboring the subject. It’s a very interesting program. It has the potential for something special....
...“They are getting ready to do some significant M&A,” said Daniel Ives at Wedbush Securities....
...I’m still slowly recovering from a very bad cold that I caught at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona two weeks ago — but at least I’ve got my voice back!...
...But without a residential crisis and assuming consumption growth stays around 2 per cent, you’d have to really crush business spending to get a recession. I’m pretty sanguine about growth....
...Montblanc is now doubling down on its writing heritage with the opening of Montblanc Haus in Hamburg, a 3,600 sq m temple dedicated to the art of writing and calligraphy workshops....
...I’m not asserting that all very expensive clothes are laughable. Things that are handmade or handfinished entail a lot of expensive skilled labour....
...And they’d call Devesh and he’d say they could have it for 20 . . . That you couldn’t buy it as the spot level was troublesome. It didn’t help in the early days....
...The former temple is such a feat of engineering, so accomplished, so divinely beautiful, that it made me wonder what the hell had we’d been doing for the past 2,000 years....
...Greenhill also had a loan worth about $270mn set to mature next year. “I think they’d be the first to admit that they believe that they’ve underperformed over the last several years,” said Rizzieri....
...You should use Ebay like a search engine: I’m always in the market for a good cowboy boot so I have a weekly alert set up for “cowboy boots UK 9”, which means I’m the first one to know when a new pair goes...
...Now, this one is a big deal because the record it broke was set 34 years ago. And we should mention that Nikkei Inc, which calculates and publishes the index, owns the Financial Times....
...A friend said he’d never seen me as elated as I was the first day I wore my new glasses....
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