Hints and tips:
...The recent flurry of dividend deals partly results from relatively little debt issuance coming from new M&A deals. Investors will happily soak up paper offered on double-digit yields....
...“Every time someone on social media is like, ‘I can’t wait to cry to your new album,’ I’m like, ‘I don’t know if you’ll cry. I’m sorry,’” she told Pitchfork in 2018....
...Dorn has grown in confidence with each project: “After doing a couple of films, I’m starting to get my stride and I’m developing a shorthand – I’m learning to speak Wes’s visual language.”...
...My version of that is everything is a prop: my kitchen is fully unfunctional because everything is a prop....
...“To half the world I’m just making them make money on DraftKings,” he said, referencing a popular betting app. “I’m just a prop.”...
...I’m a romantic.” “Confidence is really knowing who you are,” Lauren tells me. “I know who I am, so I can do what I want to do. I’m not waiting to see who’s doing it so I can do it.”...
...“I’m here because I admire him,” she added, to cheers from the other guests....
...I’m joined now by the FT’s Middle East editor Andrew England to talk about the situation. Hi, Andrew. Andrew England Hi, Marc. Marc Filippino OK....
...“I’m so tired,” they’ll say, rummaging for their phone. “Just give me the biggest coffee you have.” Requests like this are frequent....
...So props to you. Props to you. Robert ArmstrongShow must go on. Ethan WuBut Anna has written, in publication soon in the Financial Times, an excellent piece about the story of Shopify....
...It’s one novel written by 36 authors including Margaret Atwood, John Grisham, Celeste Ng, Angie Cruz, and the Goosebumps author RL Stine....
...“Although I’m probably the least bearish I’ve been in the last three years, it’s still not the time.”...
...flowers and vegetables on the Cape in summer – roses, hostas, kale, garlic, tomatoes, cucumbers, shallots… The last item of clothing I added to my wardrobe was a pair of striped cotton trousers from Double RL...
...And here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Earnings: Microsoft and Google owner Alphabet are the latest tech companies to report results....
...But Woolway’s personality and, damn, I’m going to say it, his “journey”, endow the place with something more: an abiding spirit of integrity, and that is vanishingly rare....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today and over the weekend: US-China relations: US secretary of state Antony Blinken will meet China’s President Xi Jinping later today....
...Dwayne Lysaght, JPMorgan Chase’s co-head of M&A for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said: “It’s hard to see any one big driver for a slew of upcoming M&A....
...This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘Big Tech props up US stocks’ Marc Filippino Good morning from the Financial Times....
...Her smile file helps “when I have to combat imposter syndrome, or when I’m navigating a challenging situation at work and need a confidence boost”....
...“I’m referring to consumer confidence, business confidence and investor confidence — both from domestic and foreign investors.”...
...Two years later, the entire banking system was on the brink of collapse and billions of taxpayer dollars were used to prop it back up....
...If the sofa were flat-pack, the props and costumes could probably fit into the back of a black cab. And it’s terrific: fast-moving, witty and zestily danced....
...I'm drawing all over your psephological - I'm really sorry about that, Robert. But I think that's quite interesting in terms of this pitch....
...If you want to be a mainstream artist, you haven’t got the same props to kind of hold you in place....
...I’m not sure of the market relevance of either point, but there you go. Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
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