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...Reach is already seeking to harvest more such data from readers....
...He added that AI was “designed so the reader will never visit a journalism website, thus fatally undermining that journalism”....
...(Ethan Wu) Replies on private credit excess returns Yesterday’s piece about excess returns in private credit drew a lot of meaty responses from readers, from all sides of the debate....
...Readers can be forgiven for having lost track of Ark’s “price” “target” for Tesla from last April....
...A reader, going by KC, wrote to ask what the valuation of the S&P 500 was once the Mag 7 were set aside. A fair question....
...We are keen to hear how readers would build their own Mag 7 long-short portfolio. Microsoft and Alphabet report earnings this afternoon; Apple, Amazon and Meta follow on Thursday....
...Amazon has its own file format for ebooks and its own reader format, Kindle. It gives it away for free....
...makes it $85.9bn, Alphaville isn’t currently near a Bloomberg Terminal): …which means WE HAVE A WINNER — a reader who guessed just under $90bn....
...The US securities regulator says Texas-based Agridime LLC and its owners — Josh Link and Jed Wood — have been running a $191mn Ponzi scheme selling “Cattle contracts” in 15 states....
...Cin cin From hyperdecanting to biodynamic blends, the FT’s wine expert Jancis Robinson answers readers’ questions, including the ones you might be embarrassed to ask yourself....
...This will be painfully obvious to our financial-industry readers and has been covered well before, but we’re hoping against hope that some Reddit degens and regular folks see it as well....
...While we imagine many DD readers will not be familiar with the firm, Vivek Kapoor — one of those four partners — told the FT that “Ferguson Maidment & Co can trace its history to over 130 years and the firm...
...The purchase would act as a counterweight to Saudi Arabia’s STC Group, which DD readers may recall is pursuing a stake of almost 10 per cent worth €2.1bn in the Madrid-based provider....
...The Lex team is interested in hearing more from readers. Please tell us what you think the implications of the Lawrence Livermore tests will be in the comments section below...
...Born in the USA: a New York law firm’s London coup DD readers are by now read up on US law firm Paul Weiss’s back-to-back raids on its higher-grossing rival Kirkland & Ellis, signalling its intent to edge...
...The Lex team is interested in hearing more from readers. Is the FTC right to challenge pharma deals? Please tell us what you think in the comments section below...
...DD readers may remember earlier this week when we wrote about the private credit sector’s push into investment-grade debt as more blue-chip companies turn their backs on banks in favour of the private capital...
...Think you have better advice for our readers? Send it to isabel.berwick@ft.com. We anonymise everything. Your boss, colleagues or underlings will never know....
...SoftBank, as DD readers are aware, has also halted new investments and is also preparing for a blockbuster initial public offering of Arm in New York to help fuel its turnround plan....
...Attentive readers will spot something else that has flown a little under the radar (at least ours)....
...Of course, FT readers following the story closely know that prosecutors allege that much of the business O’Sullivan brought in wasn’t real at all....
...However, the basic model outlined above will sound familiar to some Alphaville readers, as this is pretty much the model of “multi-strategy” hedge funds like Millennium, Citadel, Point72, Balyasny or Schonfeld...
...Finback was considering buying a stake in Gideon Cyber Systems LLC, according to the term sheet....
...Meet Masayoshi Son’s voice of reason DD readers are well acquainted with SoftBank’s revolving cast of characters, from the recent step- back by investment chief Rajeev Misra to the departure of Akshay Naheta...
...Before we dig into the peculiar details, we should give a quick history; many of our readers will remember the firm’s old advertisements: That version of EF Hutton was founded in 1904....
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