Hints and tips:
...“From their standpoint, they hope it doesn’t become a vicious circle where you have fewer dealers, so you get fewer sales, and then fewer dealers, fewer sales.”...
...“It comes down to how much do you want to pay in the current transition,” she said....
...Another participant agreed: “I hate to be political when making investments, but you got to recognise the politics going on. I think anything in China these days is a little bit dangerous.”...
...Finally, it is time to bid farewell to Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and Xiao Qi Ji, the Washington zoo’s last remaining pandas, who returned to China this week....
...“Children are not over the counter products that you can pick up, as if you were at a supermarket.”...
...For all his success, Xiang has one weakness, say industry hands: “The guy has an Achilles heel, which you often see among successful people in China: he loves to punt,” said a nickel expert....
...Although there is plenty of quality closer to home, you might assume that scanning the world for new talent is one of the aims of an emerging galleries section....
...Can you run a company without managers? The Working It podcast discusses flat hierarchies (aka holacracy)....
...“You would have thought the LME and providers would have run a few tests for that scenario.”...
...Please take care and see you next week. The Big Story — Exclusive China is taking key steps towards semiconductor self-sufficiency....
...“Suspending trading is one thing but LME, please explain why people should keep trading with you if you can ex-post cancel their transactions for your own mystery reasons?”...
...“If you win, all that you have accomplished is the right to go to the Colosseum one more time,” Cristiano Amon, chief executive of the US chip designer Qualcomm, told the FT....
...If you are a (leveraged) commodities trader, you need to borrow more from banks to buy commodities to move and sell them....
...If you are only reading newspapers in the west, you may have felt that Russia has been completely isolated in the field of global politics. From Asia, however, a different picture has emerged....
...Once you have the ability to move collateral in a nearly instantaneous manner, then you can rethink the way you’re doing your margining,” he says....
...That jump triggered a squeeze on the short positions of Chinese tycoon Xiang “Big Shot” Guangda, including demands for extra cash margin....
...“And you roll over for these slimy liberals.”...
...“We faced fairly big pressure” on chip supplies, Xiaomi president Wang Xiang told reporters, after the company’s earnings report on Wednesday showed slowing growth....
...“You go in about five feet and there’s the peridot in the wall,” she says....
...“Overall, the evidence suggests that B.1.1.7 is more likely to land you in the hospital than pre-existing variants of Sars-Cov-2,” he said....
...“It’s a very simple question: if you want to do the same as Didi, are you willing to burn $20bn on attracting users?”...
...“To make a movie more attractive to the audience, you need good content,” says Maoyan founder Peter Zheng. “But then we rely on data to leverage the advantage of good content.”...
...You can make films that fit with government guidelines, and you can make films that are creative,” she added. “It’s very difficult to make one that meets both of those requirements.”...
...Just in case you thought the vaccine diplomatic wranglings and trade wars were dying down, the EU this week contrived to crank up tensions with Russia, after the European Medicines Agency questioned the...
...But when you’re inside, you want to get out....
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