Hints and tips:
...The two academics focused on the 20 M&A and regulatory assignments that S&C worked on for FTX, for which it earned just under $10mn in the months leading up to the exchange’s November 2022 bankruptcy filing...
...Google Trends As well as the seasonal overtones (ice, angel, Turkey etc), there was a further theme to these answers, which could have made it a bit easier. . . the first letters of each answer spell out C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S...
...Disclosure of accounting errors had forced M&C Saatchi to adjust its reported profits for 2018 and previous years....
...to c.$1.2bn....
...Council fined the Big Four firm for failing to meet audit requirements during its review of M&C Saatchi’s accounts for the year to December 2018....
...But otherwise, give me a V-sweet C-suite job any time. As if anyone would....
...Her spinning hut becomes a merry-go-round of similar problematic narratives, barrelling through South Pacific and M*A*S*H....
...Clothes retail is a theme this week among the earnings reports with heavyweights H&M and Inditex. Will the late summer sun raise a smile or have these high street bellwethers got burnt?...
...Which is why I’m sceptical much change happens....
...And it makes everything from ski gear for Columbia Sportswear to jumpers for H&M....
...Well, I’m still waiting. Stocks have yielded less than bonds ever since then. . . ....
...“Tape Loops B & C” are continuous improvisations which, divided into multiple parts, most capture the feel and spontaneity of a tight-working band....
...I was there with friends on the promise of transgressive S&M....
...Other companies, such as H&M, have offered customers discounts on purchases if they bring in used clothes for safe disposal or recycling....
...He points to: A small M&A uptick. Measured by volume or by value, deal flow rose in the fourth quarter of 2023, compared with the quarter before: Better vibes in the C-suite....
...When JFK asked him why he was working so late, the janitor replied: “Because I’m not mopping the floors, I’m putting a man on the moon!” We seem to be missing that big national goal these days....
...H&M and Zara were the first fast-fashion retailers, selling trend-led clothing at affordable prices....
...The battle for Middle England John Lewis and M&S are courting the same middle-class customers. They are having differing levels of success, the FT’s Laura Onita writes....
...In April, M&C said that “for the first time, in a long time, we have a clear runway ahead of us”....
...In 2017, a 37m-high rocket inscribed with Chanel’s double-C logo almost did, rising up like a NASA simulator at the end of its AW17 presentation....
...They’re beating out big companies like Tesla and popular ETFs like the S&P 500. This activity has caught the attention of major public exchanges and traders....
...The S&P 500 is not yet quite as expensive as it was in the zero-rate, fiscal bonanza, everyone-has-loads-of-cash glory days of 2021. But it is getting closer....
...UK-based advertising agency M&C Saatchi has warned of challenging trading in the first half of the year, hitting business in particular in advertising and media in the past three months....
...In the case of the McKinsey report published in 2020, the main study gathered data about diversity on the boards and in the C-suites of more than 1,000 large global companies....
...I’m Ethan Wu. Thanks for listening. [MUSIC PLAYING]...
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