Hints and tips:
...But in both cases, the direction of change is plain to see....
...Consensus has moved quickly from “this rally is great” to “this rally is great but a little spooky.”...
...It gives the same reading — not a wild extreme, but at the very high end of sanity: Adding to the worries, stocks in recent months have gone from pricey to plain expensive....
...investors should just stick to plain-vanilla funds....
...Which is great — although they’re going to have a problem if people continue to receive notes formatted this way....
...The big question is whether investors were premature and overpaid in their enthusiasm for tech — or were just plain wrong. Did they buy into the future too soon, or did they buy into a delusion?...
...Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, two of the great gurus of economic interdependence, say that weak links in finance and supply chains are easily weaponised....
...SUBJECT 6: Great experiences start out being great before they're mature. They didn't start bad, and then as the technology progresses become good. They were good from the beginning....
...In another, the World Wide Fund for Nature joined it in a $6mn initiative two years ago to restore 1mn acres of grazing land in the Great Plains....
...Great reporting from Sean Campbell....
...Plain and simple. And most people don’t get that.”...
...“If you chase all of the footnotes and referenced documentation, it’s not hyperbole to suggest that every fund providing anything but plain vanilla beta exposure to stocks and bonds would be included....
...He put forward the notion of an issue hidden in plain sight that we usually ignore because it seems slow-moving, technical or vaguely familiar due to our cultural biases....
...Throughout this time of great upheaval, it was important to keep talking, Chesky says. “In a crisis, you have to communicate four times as much,” he says....
...‘The great escape’ Barry Diller, the media billionaire, described the split of AT&T and what will be called Warner Bros Discovery as “the great escape” for both sides of the business....
...“It’s a great trade-off . . . to get the exposure that might lead to a much higher ROI.”...
...The great financial crisis of 2007-8 still leaves questions to which no wholly satisfactory answers have been offered....
...She teaches readers how to make their messages stick, to save time and get results in the same way as Plain Words in a pre-digital age. Like Plain Words, this book is short....
...The issue of who should lead Nike has laid bare questions surrounding its very essence: is it a marketing company that makes great shoes, or is it a shoe company that makes great ads?...
...Ms Seaton warns that Mr Davie will be similarly “hostage” to whomever Mr Johnson picks as BBC chair next year: “Great directors-general at the BBC have nearly always had a great chair,” she observes, adding...
...Our balance sheet is strong, Eats is doing great, Rides looks a little better, maybe we can wait this damn virus out . . . I wanted there to be a different answer.”...
...That sounds great. But, while the progress is welcome, the solution is partial....
...Luxury fashion has much higher margins than the plain socks and underwear that Amazon hawks through its online store....
...But it is Stankey’s plain-spoken personality that has curried favour with Elliott, the fearsome activist hedge fund that set its sights on AT&T with a $3.2bn stake last September....
...Slack’s own app directory, showing off third-party applications available for customers to integrate, boasted 1,600 apps at the end of January....
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