Barclays Proposes Banking Rule Changes to Ease UK Fiscal Strain
Barclays has come up with a plan to adjust banking rules to help ease the UK’s fiscal woes. It’s worth considering, argues @PaulJDavies https://t.co/OQDvfacRPH via @opinion https://t.co/fD5uHJYMXM
India and New Zealand FTA to Unlock Export Opportunities
India-New Zealand FTA Finalization Boosts Exporters Indian exporters express optimism as India and New Zealand prepare to finalize their free trade agreement, potentially opening new market opportunities for bilateral trade.
TM's 75% Dividend Boost Sparks Stock Surge, Sets GLC Trend
TM spiked 6% at lunch break. Partly sebab umum dividend payout polisi dipertingkat kpd min 75% (sebelum ini 40-60%) di bayar setiap qtr (sebelum ini 2x setahun). Adakah ini akan drive other GLCs to follow? Maybank report: “TM’s revised dividend policy...
Check the Economic Calendar Weekly for Trading Edge
Beginner traders focus only on charts… profitable traders also study the calendar. 📅📈 One of the biggest edges you can build every Sunday is scanning the economic calendar before the new week starts. Why? Because news moves markets. Interest rates, inflation data, jobs...
BOE Prepares for Prolonged Energy Shock, Keeps Rates Steady
BOE is set to war-game a longer energy shock while holding rates https://t.co/6By4YDVI14 via @tomelleryrees https://t.co/HDTDA50Kfe
Control the Close: 3C Method Doubles Business
double your business using 3C closing control: – timeline: you set it – structure: engineered before the call – exclusivity: locked in the NBIO – due diligence: you run the clock – close: you call the date amateur buyers let sellers conduct 3C operators dictate the orchestra business doubled before the...
Dominant Paper Giant Crumbles After Ignoring Market Evolution
These guys had a total stranglehold on the Northeastern US paper market but refused to adapt to industry changes and were forced into a distressed exit
Build Trust First: Solve 4 Core Concerns Before Pricing
double your business using the 3C seller psychology: they're not selling a price they're solving: – legacy anxiety – staff protection – customer continuity – certainty of close solve all four before tabling a number vendor finance follows trust trust follows the 3C approach
Key Levers for AI‑Ready HR Revealed
Building the Core Levers of #AI-Ready HR: A Conversation with Laura Maffucci of G-P @PeopleMatters2 https://t.co/8Xq2KDVc2p #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Iran Offers Blockade Lift, Strait Reopen, Nuclear Talks Delayed
According to @Axios, Iran has given the US a new proposal for reaching a deal on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and lifting the naval blockade first, and postponing nuclear negotiations for a later stage. https://t.co/4oIkEaf0lH
Costa Warns EU's Future at Risk Under Trump
European Council President Antonio Costa warned EU leaders that the bloc will be lost if it outsources key decisions to US President Donald Trump https://t.co/VoByWyunrh via @AlbertoNardelli @europressos @E_Krukowska https://t.co/BH9yevMWSH
Iran Nuclear Issue Masks Broader Trade War Agenda
Iran’s nuclear program?… or is this just the latest chapter in trade wars, sanctions, tariffs, Panama Canal, Red Sea, Venezuela, and Greenland?
Global Chokepoints Under Siege: Next Target?
🎯Panama Canal kicked it off, Red Sea followed (Suez Canal and Bab Al Mandab), now Hormuz Strait. 🎯Next target?
Directors' Strategy Insights Shared at ISCA Masterclass
The role of the director and strategy. I had a lot fun at the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) as part of the Plenary Masterclass for Directors program. Thanks for the chance to meet and interact with a wide...
China's Q1 Industrial Profits Jump 15.8% YoY
China’s Industrial Profit Growth Accelerated in First Quarter—Industrial profit rose 15.8% last month compared with a year ago https://t.co/YnrxoHrbM7 https://t.co/YnrxoHrbM7
Inflation Spikes: War, Credit Booms, Pandemic Pressures
1943-1947 1974-1979 Both high inflationary periods 2002-2005 didn't have high inflation, but a credit demand boom and bust 2020-2022 Pandemic Inflation https://t.co/Jjov0fsNAY
MrBeast's Book Film Rights Hit Market, Echoes Squid Game
New: MrBeast's reps are shopping the film rights to his forthcoming book with @JP_Books. (The manuscript is done.) The book is a lot like MrBeast's reality show, which is itself a lot like Squid Game. So, if you want to make MrBeast's...
Engineering Burnout Stems From Flawed Organizational Design
Engineers don’t burn out from hard work. They burn out from building inside a structure where the decisions that matter most are made by people furthest from the problem. The CEO calls it a motivation problem. HR calls it a culture problem. It’s an...
AI Undermines Software Moats, Ecosystem Remains Competitive Edge
Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snap, argues that AI is forcing everyone to confront what they learned years ago at Snapchat; software isn’t a moat. While AI coding makes it easy for competitors to copy your features, they can’t copy an ecosystem...
Peacock's $11 B Loss Threatens Comcast's Profitability Hopes
Peacock has lost more than $11 billion since it debuted in 2020. Comcast says it is "approaching" profitability. But co-CEO Brian Roberts knows he still has a problem. https://t.co/AeeSfuit0V
China Loses Monopoly on Military‑critical Rare Earth Samarian
A bit of good supply chain news; China no longer has a monopoly on the refining of Samarian, a rare earth with important military uses 1/ https://t.co/Co909XqIbs
Delegating Critical Decisions to AI Without Oversight Invites Disaster
Sucks for an AI agent to delete the prod DB - with no way to back it up - and risk the complete rental business. But the blame sits with the dev who decided to delegate decision making to the AI...
Build an AI‑First End‑to‑End Tech Workforce
Designing an end-to-end #Technology workforce for the #AI-first era by Henning Soller Mike Stefanelli @McKinsey Learn more: https://t.co/77hs6MNard #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML https://t.co/U4DDk6ODAe
Creator‑run Ads Slash CPA and Boost CTR
Partnership Ads are quietly becoming one of the highest-leverage easy changes in our clients' accounts. Same creative. Same offer. Same landing page. The only difference: running from the creator's handle instead of the brand's. The results across our book: > 19-30% lower CPAs (on...
Orchestrate Wins Instead of Simply Assigning Leads
Stop Assigning Leads and Start Orchestrating Wins by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/EPkP2rwW2G @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Salesforce #SalesEnablement #RevOps #Marketing #Leadership #MarketingStrategy #MarketingSuccess https://t.co/eQPbIaFMAE
Choose AI Reinvention or Face Irrelevance
Reinvention or Irrelevance: The Real AI Choice by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/aV8LTK0GH2 @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #Tech #TechNews #Marketing #Leadership https://t.co/eYKyehpv1E
MLB Rumored to Rotate World Series Broadcast, Targeting NBC
Conspiracy theory - MLB wants to open up the World Series to rotate amongst right partners like the Super Bowl does and would love NBC to be in that group in next TV deal
Brazil, India Boost Critical Minerals Partnership for Supply Resilience
Brazil and India deepen critical minerals and rare earths cooperation to build resilient supply chains. https://www.metalnomist.com/2026/04/brazil-india-critical-minerals-deal.html
War and Debt Push Fed Toward Rate Cuts Soon
It’s wild to see markets still pricing in zero Fed rate cuts with this economic index at its worst level in nearly 70 years. I believe we’ll see meaningful cuts over the next two years. Counterintuitively, the war only strengthens the...
Toshiba's EBITDA Points to ¥2.7 Trillion Valuation
A thought on Rohm (6963) Toshiba has value. - ¥338bn of EBITDA to Mar25, - ¥292bn of EBITDA 9mos to Dec25. - Assume ¥1.3trln of net debt when taken over, FCF of ¥900bn+ through Dec25, ¥400bn+ of Kioxia sales in Q4. Toshiba...
EQT’s Asian Portfolio Spans SaaS to Healthcare
What companies has EQT acquired in the past? - Fortnox (accounting SaaS and a peer to freee) - Nord Anglia Education (education) - Benesse (Japan nursing care) - Fujitec (elevators) - Indostar Home Finance (consumer finance) - Indira IVF (healthcare)
Founder Relationships Require Olympic‑Level Endurance for Rapid Wins
Building relationships with founders is like training for the Olympics, how? You put in years of talking, dinners, events, value add, etc in order to build the relationship and be one of the first calls for a deal that could...
Twitch Bans Russian CS2 Streamers Linked to Drone Hub
Twitch indefinitely suspended a dozen+ Russian Partners streaming a CS2 esports competition from Russia's Alabuga Polytech. Alabuga Polytech has been widely reported as a Shahad drone-building facility and has been actively recruiting young people.
Supply‑Chain Decoupling Spurs Semiconductor Risk Management
Macro: supply-chain decoupling accelerates as Tokyo Electron cuts ties with exec linked to Chinese rivals. Key: governance and IP risk. Risk: competition escalation from China. Trade: trim semiconductor-equipment exposure. ⚠️ — Viktor Kopylov, PhD, CFA More insights: t.me/si14Kopylov
US Debt Rises a Trillion Every Five Months
A million seconds ago was April 14th. A billion seconds ago was 1994. A TRILLION seconds ago was 30,000 B.C. The US national debt grows by $1 Trillion every 150 days. The difference between a million and a billion is 31 years. The...
Treasury Sales Surge, Inflation Beats T‑Bill Yields
US Government Sold $524 Billion of Treasury Securities this Week. Inflation to Surpass T-Bill Yields. Brutal Bond Math The effects of Tax Day. The 10-Year Treasury yield rose to 4.31%, 30-Year Treasury yield to 4.91% https://t.co/NSPwUq5RC8 https://t.co/v0dwKukdIK
War on Iran Squeezes Oil, Singapore Refineries Under Half Capacity
As the US-Israeli war on Iran drags on, crude oil supplies are squeezed, and refineries in Singapore are operating BELOW HALF of their capacity. US-ISRAELI WAR ON IRAN = MASSIVE COLLATERAL DAMAGE. https://t.co/g0FagiJrSv
Americans Pessimistic About Economy Amid Market Peaks
The latest Gallup numbers are out. Nearly 80% of Americans say economic conditions are poor or just fair. Only 1 in 5 think things are good or excellent. All this pessimism is happening with the stock market at all-time highs....
Dollar's Global Dominance Pre‑dated and Survives Petrodollars
Enjoyed Brendan Greely's big story on petrodollars -- which debunks a lot of dated theorizing about the role oil plays in the dollars global role. He is right -- the offshore dollar system predates the arrival of "petro" dollars and has...
Budget Discipline Lost: Stearns Struggles in Money‑Rich Mets
Mets post after a brutal April. Here’s my hypothesis. This is not a “fire Stearns” take. I think David Stearns is very smart. But I wonder if the very thing that made him special in Milwaukee is harder to translate...
Colorado Artist Company Act Protects IP and Offers Nonprofit Benefits
Hey artists of colorado, the Artist Company Act under consideration and if passed would give artists a new way of being able to do business while also protecting their intellectual property from creditors AND benefiting as a public benefit organization...
Boost Sales Fast with Referral Discounts and Tiered Rewards
Instant way to increase your digital product sales via referral: 1. Find a way to encourage people to talk about your product in public 2. Send a 50% off code to everyone who buys and say forward it to a friend 3. Create...
DEI Programs Vanish, but Inequality Persists Unchanged
The Acronym Is Gone. The Problem Isn't. Amazon, Meta, Google, Walmart, Goldman Sachs, and McDonald's dismantled DEI programs through 2025 and into 2026, following executive orders that stripped federal agencies of diversity offices and pressured contractors to follow. Target's retreat triggered...
Avoid Leverage: Small ROE Gains Threaten Survival
Stretching your balance sheet for a couple % extra returns isn't worth the trading off your long-term survival: "There is no point in improving return on equity by a few percentage points if it compromises long-term survival. The COVID-19 crisis demonstrated...
Adding Extra Attribution Cuts CPM 27% and CPA 13%
We ran a massive A/B test over the last 3-4 weeks to test the change in attribution and its impact across accounts. Roughly $500K in spend across 11 brands in different vertices / AOV. What we found: 7DC vs 7DC/1DE/1DV CPM: Showed an average...
America 250 Goes Mainstream Across Corporate Giants
Corporate America is very in on America 250 btw. Already seeing displays at Walmart, the NBA playoffs, and Coke/Diet Coke bottles and cans. It’s gonna be Everywhere.
March PCE Index Projected up 0.7%, Core 0.3%
March PCE Price Index seen having risin 0.7% in March... due out Thursday morning core +0.3% https://t.co/qpzvt3zpKQ
Hormuz Blockade Fuels Global Refining Crisis Amid Policy Missteps
No quick or easy answers to the global refining crisis as Hormuz blockade continues - Physical damage to facilities in Gulf & Russia - Insufficient price rises for full demand response - Export bans, tax cuts & other counterproductive govt policies @TheNationalNews @QamarEnergy...
Tax Shifts Can Drive Inflation in General Equilibrium
If your personality is built on claims that taxes are a massive detriment to economic growth and that our economy is dramatically more fossil-fuel-intensive than the data suggest, you might give some thought to what changes in those taxes might...
Corporate Branding and PR Are Dying
The end of corporate branding and PR as we know it! by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/W6EXcyEdS5 @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Salesforce #Leadership #PublicRelations #PR #Marketing #MarketingSuccess #MarketingStrategy #MarketingTips https://t.co/xEdypfBhY9