Hints and tips:
...Baker is one of a cohort of more than 120 “foreign online influencers” living in China, writes the Financial Times’ James Kynge....
...We are presented with two enormous bowlfuls, mine containing a daunting mound of rhubarb fool — more clouds — and Levy’s a wodge of yellow lemon sponge surrounded by a double-cream moat....
...The grounds include a walled garden, meadow, lake, tennis court and moat — plus a second world war air-raid shelter....
...Wealthy elites are often extremely good at finding ways to protect their privilege — and at building professional “moats”....
...Hedge funds do not have much of a competitive moat. They depend on the reputation of star fund managers, who can often leave at will....
...Analysts challenged outgoing boss James Gorman on the realism of a target return of 20 per cent on tangible equity....
...One good read James Kynge on China’s plans for the world order....
...A plaque above the organ nods to the city’s once-thriving ceramics industry, honouring local potter George Meakin, who in 1851 founded ceramics manufacturing company J & G Meakin with his brother James....
...fundamental idea behind a wave of mergers — that began in 2019 when US payments processor Fiserv agreed to buy rival First Data for $39bn — was to establish a quasi-oligopolistic payments network as a moat...
...Cosseting it are three greeny-black moats, whose patterns play games with logic....
...Moi Tran’s standing set cuts a huge rectangular moat around the central performance space — a bit like an elephant enclosure....
...It is difficult to picture Mary inside the grey walls, beside a window above the stinking moat....
...I stayed in one of its decorative 19th-century gatehouses, gazing down at the sun-dappled moat and the weed-pierced, cobbled back streets....
...It also invested heavily in the production process to build moats around its manufacturing innovations, while rivals were just giving supplier spec sheets and saying: “build this.”...
...James Hewetson-Brown of specialist Wildflower Turf began experimenting with native flower seeds more than 20 years ago....
...The manufacturing and retail businesses that Berkshire have bought over the years have been chosen in part for pricing power, too (what Buffett likes to call their “moats”)....
...Is there an angle to how [your] data is structured and deployed that we need to think more about in terms of a competitive moat?...
...It’s become more difficult for companies to really think about the task of building their competitive moats.”...
...James Athey of Aberdeen Standard disagrees. He thinks the dollar rally is here to stay....
...Malls had a natural moat, being difficult to develop and serving a catchment area . . ....
...The exchange markets ICE operates possess oligopoly-like characteristics with ‘protective moats’ which doesn’t seem to be the case at eBay,” the analysts added....
...Swimming in it Elsewhere in the paper, James Max is less happy with his waterside(ish) abode. He’s having a grumble about a 15-metre heated swimming pool he sadly owns — and pays for....
...Public companies should build a moat, get their ducks in a row and keep their guard up because boardroom raiders aren’t going anywhere. They’re proliferating....
...The island is shielded from neighbouring West Palm Beach by the Intracoastal Waterway, which some refer to as “the moat”....
...One is that Warren Buffett was right to say we should look for companies with “economic moats” — defences against competition....
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