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• Elon Musk was right — Wall Street's take on Tesla is boneheaded and boring (TSLA, F, GM, FCAU, RACE)

  26-01-2019 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk accused Wall Street analysts of asking boring and bonehead questions.
  He later apologized — but he was actually right.
  Wall Street's inability to understand the Tesla's and the traditional auto industry business for the past five years has been staggering.
  Wall Street has a Tesla problem.
  America's newest publicly traded automaker has also become one of its most valuable, but its market capitalization of between $50 billion and $60 billion is unstable and bas
  
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• Four major questions remain ahead of Apple's most critical earnings report in years (AAPL)

  26-01-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Apple faces one of its toughest earnings report in years next week.
  Apple's stock has dropped over 30% since the last earnings report and it said earlier this month that it would miss its own revenue target by about 7%.
  Here are some key questions facing the iPhone giant. Earlier this month, Apple dropped a bombshell that whacked its stock. Its revenue, the company said in a letter from Apple CEO Tim Cook, was going to be more than 7% lower than expected, during the company's biggest quarte
  
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• Our Davos diary; Bridgewater's Dalio is scared of the next economic meltdown; Stock-trading on the freeway is the future

  26-01-2019 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
   
  Dear Readers,
  We sent a team of six editors to brave negative temperatures and cover this year's World Economic Forum in Davos. They spent the week eating $43 hot dogs and chatting with more than 40 CEOs, business leaders and billionaires at the Swiss ski resort to get their take on the state of global affairs. 
  Here are some nuggets from our editor-in-chief Nich Carlson, executive editor Matt Turner and editor-ar-large Sara Silverstein, who shared a few of their biggest takeaways fr
  
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• There were more than 700 food and beverage deals in 2018. Here's why executives behind Taco Bell, KFC, and Macaroni Grill say the acquisition spree is far from over. (YUM)

  26-01-2019 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Acquisitions are on the rise in the restaurant industry. More than 700 food-and-beverage industry mergers and acquisitions took place in 2018. 
  Consolidation is the future of the restaurant industry, according to executives at Macaroni Grill, which also owns Sullivan's Steakhouse, and Yum Brands, which owns Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut. 
  These deals help chains to cut costs as wages rise and cut into margins, according to analysts. As costs rise in the restaurant industry, compan
  
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• Meet the 8 chief financial officers leading 2019's tech unicorn IPO spree

  26-01-2019 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the world of tech startups, the race to go public is often kicked off with the hiring of a chief financial officer.
  The number-crunching, budget-setting finance exec plays one of the most important roles in the process leading up to and after the ringing of the opening bell.
  It's up to the CFO to forge good relationships with investors, analysts and other Wall Street constituencies. A CFO who knows how to "speak to the Street" can mean the difference between a blockbuster debut and a dud.
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• The world's record-shattering debt load was the talk of Davos. Here's what the biggest experts from around the globe had to say.

  26-01-2019 12:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The world is drowning in a record amount of debt, and it was a hot-button topic at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
  Among the experts who weighed in on the world's debt issues were investing heavyweights Ray Dalio and Joshua Friedman, as well as David Lipton of the International Monetary Fund.
  Their comments, along with the thoughts of three other world-class experts, are outlined below.Heading into the 2019 edition of Davos, the world's record-shattering debt loa
  
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• A simple chart shows the winners and losers from Trump's trade war with China

  26-01-2019 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the trade conflict between the US and China rumbles on, winners and losers are starting to emerge from the conflict which has seen the two nations swap tariffs on more than $200 billion of goods.
  Brazil has seen exports to China jump as a result of the stopping of US soybean exports to China thanks to the trade war.
  Beside the USA, Germany has suffered the most of any major economy.
  As the trade conflict between the US and China rumbles on, winners and losers are starting to emerge from the c
  
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