Hints and tips:
...Knight reserved his highest praise for the golfer in his 2016 memoir, Shoe Dog. When other sponsors pared back following Woods’ infidelity scandal of 2009, Nike stood firm....
...But Isaacson’s doesn’t give much time to the idea that Musk’s luck ran out, even though that’s the story told by following the money....
...But it wasn’t the LSD-coloured dog shows or nights spent tripping on the world’s most powerful psychedelics that factored into the company’s eventual downfall....
...The new chief’s first staff meeting misfired: his introduction to the bark-laden strains of “Who Let the Dogs Out?” prompted disbelieving comments on employee chats seen by the FT....
...Waga tail The Wagamama tail is wagging the Restaurant Group dog, writes Kate Burgess. The noodle chain’s sales rose a tenth in the second quarter....
...“A lot of VCs look more like private equity companies that do not want to lose any money so they end up backing dog-walking apps rather than quantum computing.”...
...Pog The Dog is up after naming some random as its interim CEO....
...“I don’t want to have this . . . becoming a dog’s breakfast . . . rather than an actual FT lunch.”...
...Alipay, the digital payment group owned by ecommerce giant Alibaba, could have more luck....
...“Last year we saw dog walking and death [podcasts] These things happen and can go quickly.”...
...Its $146bn in global assets range from airports to trucking companies, shipping groups and stakes in Deutsche Bank and the Hilton hotel chain....
...In the absence of a new trick, former market darlings risk becoming old dogs. Email the Lex team at lex@ft.com...
...Good luck to it. The Christmas sales figures are a portent of the challenges Mr McCarthy and his team face....
...He also played down the idea that FBN had a dog in the race. “I’m not red or blue, I’m green . . . I’m just about money,” he said. “I’ve found both parties can waste it.”...
...As Joudina-Robinson puts it: “I don’t see anyone trying to take a cat with them in a handbag – good luck to them!”...
...Good luck finding a local store or delivery person in India who accepts anything but cash. Even in a nation of 1.2bn, fewer than 1m retailers are set up to take a credit card....
...(We anyway lean towards the underrated value of luck and a thin tail of top money managers as an inevitable part of fund management performance distribution. Good luck picking them ahead of time.)...
...All of which makes you wish Philip had turned to long-distance trucking....
...and bad luck, but also the non-professional, everyday life that they have....
...Forget Pavlov’s dogs, we have apparently become Pavlov’s purchasers. Ka-ching!...
...Instead, he continued on a career path that has garnered seven best actor Oscar nominations (most recently for political satire Wag the Dog in 1998)....
...Later, Dink told me there was a Dink Inc field trip to San Diego to see a Mighty Ducks ice hockey game. He handed me $300 for expenses. I couldn’t believe my luck....
...Each idea is thrown to the writers like a piece of raw meat, to be ripped apart by a pack of very hungry dogs.”...
...Among the big dogs, JPMorgan joined forces with Chase Manhattan in 2000, supersizing itself yet staying clear of trouble....
...People who knew Mr Dimon at the time said that, true to his high-school nickname of “Mad Dog”, the youthful executive used to get infuriated quite often, his no-nonsense, abrasive persona and short temper...
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