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• These 13 stocks are spring-loaded for a surge as it gets too expensive to short them

  20-09-2019 21:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Borrowing costs for some of the market's most-shorted stocks are skyrocketing and creating a situation where short sellers are at risk of getting squeezed, according to a new study from financial technology and analytics firm S3 Partners.
  When short sellers close out of their bearish positions, it pushes shares higher.
  Listed below are 13 stocks that look poised to soar as it becomes increasingly expensive to continue shorting them.
  Visit the Markets Insider homepage for more stories.Some of the
  
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• The CEO of Goldman Sachs launched a music label called Payback Records

  20-09-2019 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon launched a music label last year called Payback Records, according to the company's website. 
  The label was created in partnership with Big Beat/Atlantic Records in an effort to build "a socially conscious music business focused on one of America's most serious public health crises: the addiction epidemic."
  The proceeds from the label will be donated to nonprofit organizations working on the cause, according to Payback's website. 
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• The US exempts hundreds of Chinese products from tariffs

  20-09-2019 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Trump administration took steps early Friday to exclude from tariffs hundreds of Chinese products, ranging from drinking straws to pet supplies. 
  The move came as the US and China headed into a second day of deputy-level talks in Washington on Friday.But it was widely seen as an attempt to shield American companies and consumers from price increases. 
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  The Trump administration took steps early Friday to exclude from tariffs hundre
  
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• WeWork's business model has created a new 'financial-stability risk' that could tank the economy, Boston Fed president says

  20-09-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The rise of the coworking business model employed by companies like WeWork poses "a new type of potential financial-stability risk," Eric Rosengren, the Boston Federal Reserve president, said in a speech at New York University on Friday.
  The office providers often serve smaller and more vulnerable companies, which could cause an exodus from commercial real estate should a recession hit, the president said.
  Coworking companies also use special business structures to avoid unprofitable tenants and
  
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• 'This is now a new era': A Wall Street quant guru says FOMO is driving 'very strange' behavior in markets — and describes how he's positioned to profit from the anomaly

  20-09-2019 18:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wayne Himelsein, the president and chief investment officer at Logica Capital Advisers, thinks the amount of greed and excitement in the marketplace is giving way to an anomaly he calls "panic buying."
  He advocates for a systematic, risk-mitigating approach that consists of applying two different investment philosophies simultaneously.
  Click here for more BI Prime stories.Today's market environment is anything but normal.
  Stocks are a hair's breadth away from all-time highs, unemployment is hove
  
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• Top Juul investor Altria has seen $30 billion — almost a third of its market value — erased since the FDA launched a vaping investigation in April (MO)

  20-09-2019 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Top Juul Labs investor Altria has lost $31 billion in market value since April, when the Food and Drug Administration launched a new investigation into vaping.
  Altria bought a $12.8 billion stake in Juul back in December.
  A litany of setbacks have weighed on Juul and Altria since, including a growing number of illnesses and deaths related to vaping and e-cigarette use. 
  Watch Altria trade live on Markets Insider.
  Top Juul Labs investor Altria Group has gone down in smoke since the Food and
  
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• The Fed pumps another $75 billion into markets and says more cash is on the way

  20-09-2019 18:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Federal Reserve ended the week with yet another attempt to calm money markets and an announcement that more injections were on the way.
  The central bank pumped another $75 billion into financial markets Friday and announced a schedule for further repo operations.
  This week marked the first time the central bank had taken such steps since the global financial crisis 10 years ago.
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  The Federal Reserve ended the week with yet another attempt t
  
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• WeWork just lost another executive as the chief investment officer of its real-estate fund resigns

  20-09-2019 17:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  WeWork real-estate investment fund chief investment officer Wendy Silverstein resigned from the company last week, The Real Deal reported on Friday.
  In May, WeWork announced the launch of ARK, an investment fund set up to purchase commercial properties to lease to WeWork. 
  Silverstein told The Real Deal that she resigned in order to be available for her two elderly parents and that the move was not related to WeWork's turmoil surrounding its IPO, which was recently delayed.
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• A Tesla Model S sat on a tow truck at the Nürburgring as a Porsche Taycan drove past it (TSLA)

  20-09-2019 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tesla's upgraded Model S "Plaid" sat behind a tow truck on the Nürburgring this week. Video shows its rival, a new Porsche Taycan, driving past it.
  Tesla handily topped a lap time set by Porsche's new electric vehicle at the famous German track. 
  "Plaid," the latest powertrain refresh to any Tesla model, should be in production in about a year, CEO Elon Musk said. 
  Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Tesla didn't want to just top a lap time set by Porsche's new elec
  
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• We asked hundreds of millennial investors which FAANG stock they'd own if they could pick only one, and virtually none said Facebook or Netflix

  20-09-2019 16:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Markets Insider asked hundreds of millennial investors which FAANG stock — Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google/Alphabet — they'd own if they could pick only one.
  While Amazon was the resounding top choice, Facebook and Netflix found themselves mostly unloved by millennials.
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  Markets Insider asked hundreds of millennial investors which FAANG stock they'd buy if they could choose only one, and virtually none said Facebook or N
  
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• The top executives at Hollywood conglomerate Endeavor could have their holdings valued at $1.5 billion in its upcoming IPO

  20-09-2019 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Endeavor Group, a Hollywood conglomerate, filed for an initial public offering earlier this week aiming to raise as much as $619 million at a $7.6 billion valuation. 
  Ari Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell — the firm's top two executives — and a small group of other company insiders could see their holdings in the company be valued at $1.5 billion if the shares are listed at the middle of its estimated range, according to Bloomberg. 
  Emanuel and Whitesell led the firm to purchas
  
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• Billionaire Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison calls embattled WeWork 'almost worthless'

  20-09-2019 16:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  The billionaire Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison reportedly said WeWork was "almost worthless" in a recent discussion at his house in San Francisco.
  According to a report in Barron's, Ellison offered a scathing take on WeWork's business model: "WeWork rents a building from me, and breaks it up, and then rents it. They say, 'We're a technology company, and we want a tech multiple.' It's bizarre."
  WeWork is preparing for an initial public offering, but the office-coworking company has faced increasi
  
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• 1 of Britain's biggest banks has appointed its first female CEO

  20-09-2019 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  RBS has appointed Alison Rose as CEO, making it the first of Britain's "big four" banks to have a female leader.
  Rose, who joined RBS as a graduate trainee 27 years ago, will earn £1.1 million ($1.4 million) a year — slightly more than her predecessor, according to the BBC.
  She currently heads up the bank's commercial and private banking division.
  View Markets Insider's homepage for more stories.One of Britain's biggest lenders has appointed its first female CEO.
  RBS — one of t
  
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• Lego, O2, Next: 5 things that mattered this week and why

  20-09-2019 16:11
  Lego returns to advertising to ‘fire up’ creativity
  It’s been 30 years since Lego launched its last global brand campaign. This week it broke that hiatus with a fun and energetic piece of creative looking to get those creative juices flowing.
  Proof that Lego knows its audience spans the generations, ‘Rebuild the World’ shows Lego in a modern light while also tapping into that sense of nostalgia.
  Every character, animal and vehicle featured in the campaign is based
  
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• Marketing Week Top 100: The top marketers in regulated industries

  20-09-2019 16:00
  The post Marketing Week Top 100: The top marketers in regulated industries appeared first on Marketing Week.
  
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• Marketing Week Explores: How to improve marketing’s reputation and the future of publishing

  20-09-2019 15:58
  In this edition of Marketing Week Explores, reporter Molly Fleming is joined by editor Russell Parsons and senior writer Charlotte Rogers to discuss the rise and fall of marketing’s reputation in organisations.
  We look at the issues hitting confidence in marketing and how marketers can increase their impact and influence.
  The team then explores the media models that have the scope to save publishing. Sparked by the fact Marie Claire is becoming digital-only, we look at what the brand, and
  
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• Roku dives after Wall Street analyst slaps it with a rare 'sell' rating, predicts competitors will drive device prices 'to zero' (ROKU)

  20-09-2019 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Roku stock sank as much as 6% on Friday after Pivotal Research predicted increased competition in the streaming sector will drive device prices "to zero."
  The analyst hit Roku with only its second "sell" rating, assigning a price target of $60. That implies a 55% tumble by the end of 2020.
  Comcast's recent decision to give free Xfinity Flex devices to all data-only customers could drive competitors to also offer free streaming devices and focus on boosting ad revenue.
  Roku's high ad splits with
  
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• 'An app my cat could have written': Larry Ellison reportedly says Uber's business model is 'almost worthless' (UBER)

  20-09-2019 15:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Larry Ellison is said to be far less bullish than Wall Street when it comes to Uber. 
  The Oracle founder trashed Uber's business model at a private San Francisco event this week, according to Barron's.
  "They have nothing," he reportedly said of the ride-hailing giant. "No technology. And no loyalty."
  Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.The billionaire entrepreneur Larry Ellison, who cofounded Oracle, didn't mince words when it came to Uber and its cohort of ultravaluable tech
  
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• China just took another step to boost its struggling economy — but experts say it needs to do far more

  20-09-2019 15:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  China lowered borrowing costs for the second month in a row on Friday in an effort to bolster its struggling economy.
  The People's Bank of China cut its Loan Prime Rate (LPR) by 5 basis points to 4.2%, a much smaller move than those made by the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank in recent weeks. 
  But experts are warning that the cut might not be enough to stave-off slowing growth brought on by the ongoing trade war with the US. 
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• Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman explains how a mindset he developed in his dad’s linens shop powered him through leading a Lehman coup, building a financial giant, and getting the ears of Presidents Trump and Xi

  20-09-2019 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Blackstone CEO and cofounder Stephen Schwarzman spoke with Business Insider for an episode of the podcast "This Is Success" ahead of the launch of his new book, "What It Takes."He explained what it was like rising through Lehman Brothers in the 1970s and '80s and why he regrets selling the firm in 1984.
  In Blackstone's early days, cofounder Pete Peterson would make connections and Schwarzman would close deals.
  He also told us why he didn't sign the Business Roundtable's statement against shareh
  
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• US senators have reportedly piled up to $96 million into stocks, including companies they regulate

  20-09-2019 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  51 US senators and their spouses have up to $96 million invested in corporate stocks, according to an analysis by Sludge and the Guardian, raising conflict of interest concerns.
  Sen. Richard Shelby, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, and Sen. Jacky Rosen own significant amounts of stock in companies they oversee.
  Together, 10 members of the Senate banking committee hold up to $8 million worth of stock in finance, securities, and real estate companies.
  View Markets Insider's homepage for more stories.Fif
  
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• A rogue trader lost $320 million on wrong-way oil bets, prompting Mitsubishi to fire the person and alert police

  20-09-2019 13:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  A rogue employee at a unit of Mitsubishi Corporation used unauthorized trades to bet on oil markets.Petro-Diamond Singapore, a Mitsubishi Corporation unit, "expects to book a loss of approximately $320 million from its trade of crude oil derivatives," Mitsubishi said.
  The company discovered the trades in August and this week fired the employee and alerted the police in a complaint.
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  A rogue employee at a unit of Mitsubishi Corporation used unauthorized trades to bet on oil m
  
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• Rugby World Cup: How brands are engaging a new wave of fans

  20-09-2019 08:00
  It might come second to football in Britain, but there’s no denying rugby is gaining momentum around the world. So much so, its global fan base has grown by 24% since 2013 to 780 million fans.
  This explosion has been helped along by the introduction of Rugby Sevens to the Olympics and the stellar performance of Japan’s national team at the World Cup in 2015, which sparked interest in Asia where 112.5 million people now identify as rugby fans, according to figures from Rugby Union&rsq
  
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• What you need to know about the Australian Effies database analysis

  20-09-2019 02:00 via warc.com
  Australian Advertising Effectiveness Rules, a new report by effectiveness experts Peter...
  
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• Most Chinese smart speaker owners are open to ads

  20-09-2019 02:00 via warc.com
  Advertising is still in its infancy on smart speakers, but a new study expects it to mature quickly as inventory becomes more widely available – and China will be a crucial market.
  
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• How best to measure affiliate marketing

  20-09-2019 02:00 via warc.com
  Marketers may need to carefully assess the impressions they receive from affiliate marketing partners, as these providers often have their own way of estimating such figures, according to a paper in the Journal of Advertising Research (JAR).
  
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• Google forms UK local news partnership

  20-09-2019 02:00 via warc.com
  Local newspaper groups have been struggling for years in the digital age, but now Google has promised to help at least one British publisher find new ways of trying to make local digital news commercially viable.
  
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• Facebook fundraisers donate $2bn for good causes

  20-09-2019 02:00 via warc.com
  Charitable givers around the world have used Facebook’s fundraising tool to donate more than $2bn over the past four years to support the causes and people they care about, the company has announced.
  
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• Cash accounts for only 20% of UK retail spending

  20-09-2019 02:00 via warc.com
  Card payments accounted for almost 80% of retail sales in the UK last year, according to a new industry report that confirms the steady decline of cash usage in transactions.
  
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