Hints and tips:
...Wainwright, “I will get on to four or five of our top salespeople and say that from this, say, 20-carat rough, we are expecting such and such a shaped diamond, and I’m thinking about your customer, Mr B, or C....
Gene sequencer Illumina took a bet on start-up Grail during the height of the biotech boom. What happened next was not part of the plan
...Ørsted’s C-suite must be feeling the chill. The Danish renewable energy developer is badly exposed to icy blasts blowing through its industry....
...BID Art on a Postcard x War Child Art on a Postcard, the charity founded to raise funds for the Hepatitis C Trust, is dedicating its next auction of 4in-by-6in artworks to War Child, which provides aid...
...Candles can turn a profit, but investing in them is a gamble....
...As we report today, Britain’s flagship Hinkley Point C plant is facing delays until 2029 and cost overruns rocketing to as much as £46bn....
...arising from pandemic disruption and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that “however much they [retailers] didn’t like it, it was hard to argue against”, said Will Hayllar, partner at strategy consultants OC&C....
...Bombardier, Canada’s former industrial champion, was almost bankrupted attempting to do just that with its C series, a small single-aisle offering....
...Byju’s and Dream11 outspent such global powerhouses as Procter & Gamble, Mondelez, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Nestlé....
...Clips from CNBC, DW News, Reuters For further reading: Credit Suisse chair says outflows have reversed since ‘social media storm’ ‘Radical surgery’: Will Credit Suisse’s gamble pay off?...
...Tangled Paths: A Life of Aby Warburg by Hans C Hönes (Reaktion/ University of Chicago Press)The story of one of the most influential historians of art and culture of the 20th century reveals a man of many...
...Alliance Pharma, M&C Saatchi and YouGov all fall in this zone. But it’s not only about individual companies....
...You know, for instance, in 20 of the 25 jurisdictions across the US where you can legally gamble online on sports, you can do so on a credit card....
...Given the risks of higher interest rates and a worse economy, this is a gamble. Does it matter? Maybe not. It is hard to predict when or if markets will turn against a country....
...SVB hired BlackRock’s Financial Markets Advisory Group to study its risk controls and received a “gentleman’s C” in a brutal assessment delivered to the bank’s top brass in January 2022....
...But this year, and after a gamble on crypto backfired, the 41-year-old chief executive had to watch Checkout.com’s valuation come tumbling down....
...Their report notes that the 2016 Paris Agreement calls for measures to limit the global temperature rise to below 2°C from pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C....
...The upside of the government’s refugee deal with the Rwandan government is that it gives MPs both something else to talk about in the press other than a) and b), and a solution for c)....
...There’s a gamble in buying vintage fragrances – unopened bottles can last at their desired quality indefinitely, but who knows how something has been stored?...
...Even his expensive streaming gamble with Disney Plus in 2019 had been cheered by Wall Street....
...His 1911 Miltmore House, not far from the Gamble House, featured sleeping porches, as did many other of Gill’s designs....
...Is this a gamble that’s gonna work in electoral terms?...
...Kenney had ploughed more than C$1bn into KXL — a move many said was a failed gamble on the re-election of Donald Trump, who had pledged to get the project built....
...David Hollingworth, associate director at broker L&C Mortgages, notes that several lenders have increased their stress rates this month, and expects others to follow....
...Consumer-facing companies including Mondelez, Procter & Gamble, Kraft Heinz and Airbnb said their price increases had met little resistance....
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