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Venture capital’s silent crash: When the tech boom met reality
Investors of all stripes have crashed the clubby world of VC, drawn by the potential of tech start-ups. But there are signs the party is over
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Meta/Alphabet: Falling ad sales will ramp up pressure on side hustles
In the years before the tech bubble burst, Facebook and Google could have profitably spun off their vanity projects. Instead, side ventures are gobbling up plateauing profits from the core businesses
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How bad will the global food crisis get?
Food commodity prices are falling, but experts say global production and hunger rates might be even worse in 2023
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Howard Marks writes: Investors need to stay away from the herd to outperform
Portfolio shifts should not be based on short-term results as no strategy will make every quarter or year successful
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Why do we still bother with active funds?
‘Manager vs Machine’ report finds that passive funds have fared better in choppy markets
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Is the dollar about to take a turn?
If the economy and inflation weaken, the Fed is likely to pause and the US currency will reverse direction
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Mohamed El-Erian writes: Investors still need to tread warily in emerging markets
A strong general case for emerging markets exposure needs the big macro threats to lift or to be better reflected in valuations
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‘Look at the 1960s, not 1970s, for economic lessons’
Veteran fund manager warns inflation could persist for years, shaping investment views
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Value stocks are ready for their moment
Value stocks look primed to outperform growth stocks if the spread between valuations reverts to its historical mean
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Generation moonshot: Why young investors are not ready to give up on risk
Even amid a meltdown in crypto markets, DIY traders who came of age after the financial crisis no longer want to play by the old rules
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Lex: Coal markets: Unusual situation reflects China’s slowdown
In a rare situation, the price of coal used for making steel has fallen below the price of thermal coal. But it won't last
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European economy: Lagarde wrestles with an ‘impossible situation’
The ECB president is set to raise rates to curb inflation just as war and energy prices threaten to tip the eurozone into recession
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Twitter may beat Elon Musk in court and still lose
The Delaware trial is sure to be a spectacle but outsmarting the world’s richest man will be a challenge
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We should be worrying about debt as well as inflation
Pundits have long ignored the issue because declining interest rates kept borrowers’ servicing costs low
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‘Mission impossible’: the problem with Biden’s plan to tame oil prices
US president hopes to convince Saudi Arabia to pump more while crimping Russia’s energy revenues
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Ukraine: Can Russia still win the war?
Analysts say Kyiv has six months to drive out the invading forces from the country before fatigue sets in and it faces prolonged military gridlock
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Martin Wolf writes: Inflation is a political challenge as well as an economic one
People care about price rises and the damage that they can do to real incomes
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America’s new agricultural frontier: vertical farms
After years of laboratory testing, companies are now racing to scale up their operations for commercial production of plants
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The mystery of how quantitative tightening will affect markets
Central banks are starting to shrink their balance sheets, but fund managers say they have no clue as to how QT will play out
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Is the US starting to resemble an emerging market?
Political risk and volatility are on the rise as the country’s divisions begin to deepen
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Twitter’s Parag Agrawal seeks to ‘swing back’ in Elon Musk takeover battle
The enigmatic Agrawal is beginning to come out fighting in front of staffers and the public
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Failure of US climate leadership compounds fears for COP27 summit
Big global emitters are calling into question the US’s commitment to tackling climate change
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Martin Wolf writes: Cryptocurrencies are not the new monetary system we need
It is time to prune the crypto thicket. But new branches must also grow on the tree of money and payments
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My garlic for a home: China struggles to revive property sector
The real estate market is struggling to recover as zero-COVID policies and developer debt sap buyer demand
