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Instacart to stop delivering groceries from Amazon’s Whole Foods In 2014, when Instacart was a younger grocery-delivery startup, Whole Foods was its first major relationship—Instacart’s debut national retail partner and an investor as well. A lot has changed since then. Amazon.com now owns...

One Small Flight Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo flew a brief suborbital space mission with two pilots, now astronauts, and a tourist-like dummy onboard. The company has sold around 600 tickets for future space tourists to take a similar ride. Fortune.

Luggage or Lodgings? What do you get when you already have all the little luxuries? Somewhere nice to enjoy them: Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy is buying Belmond, a luxury hotel group, for $3.2 billion, a 40% premium over Thursday's closing price. Reuters.

Saudi Spending Can you buy your way out of an investor relations fiasco? Saudi Arabia is trying. Its government may be buying stocks through opaque funds in a bid to prop up its market on weak trading days. Wall Street Journal.

There are ethical managers out there eg in the late 90s Jean-Marie Eveillard refused to invest in the tech bubble and was labeled past his prime, senile ( he was in his fifties) etc., was even threatened with sacking by the parent company Societe Generale but he did not relent and was vindicated...

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“Peace begins with a smile.” - Mother Teresa

Let's not forget the story of IndyMac Bank of Pasadena, they were offering higher rates i.e. do your homework... http://www.pasadenanow.com/main/10-years-ago-today-feds-seize-pasadenas-indy-mac-bank-as-financial-meltdown-of-2008-grips-nation/

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Employees at Amazon’s New NYC Warehouse Launch Union Push https://www.ttnews.com/articles/employees-amazons-new-nyc-warehouse-launch-union-push?itx[idio]=5844952&ito=792&itq=af1f110b-c9ab-47f8-b2c2-5b28479d6fc1

Square adds benefits offerings to payroll app for small businesses IT service management company Square is now offering benefits for small and mid-sized businesses as part of its Square Payroll app, the company’s cloud-based payroll system. (www.benefitnews.com)

Apple is dropping $1B on a huge new campus in Austin Apple announced on Thursday that it is building a new $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas. Apple said the new campus will span 133 acres, and house an initial 5,000 employees, with the potential to expand to 15,000 staff. The Austin campus is...

California wants to tax your text messages. Here’s why California’s Public Utilities Commission wants to extend an existing tax on calls to include text messages, the Mercury News reports. Should it get its way, then Californians may soon be taxed on every text they send from their cell phones...

PG&E expanding wildfire prevention, Camp Fire rebuilding efforts Reacting to consecutive years of devastating wildfires, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) has rolled out an expanded program to decrease threats and support rebuilding in the Camp Fire area of Northern California, including the...

Canadian Captured China has detained a second Canadian in a possible escalation of the tensions between the two countries since Canada arrested Huawei finance chief Meng Wanzhou on behalf of the United States. CBC.

Hedge Wind Down Jabre Capital Partners chief investment officer Philippe Jabre told investors that he was selling down the fund's investments in a "disciplined manner" because the hedge fund did not anticipate the same opportunities in 2019 it had seen in the past. The decision follows those of...

"A horse, a horse; my kingdom for a horse!" - Richard III as portrayed by William Shakespeare at the war of 1485 which concluded the war of Roses and The Tudors (eg Henry VIII) ended the reign of The Plantagenets ( eg Richard The Lion Heart) dynasty.

SEC LIQUIDITY BUCKETING: PROVISIONAL, VERIFIED, AND FINAL REGULATIONS By Nels Ylitalo | December 12, 2018 In its FAQ on the Investment Company Liquidity Risk Management Programs rule (the SEC Liquidity Rule also referred to as Rule 22e-4), the SEC has enumerated a taxonomy of liquidity...