Blend #1 | 10.18.16
Free lunch meets free breakfast in today’s hand-crafted selection of relevant articles highlighting topics of macro views / sentiment, industry shifts, banking trends– amongst other treats.
Enjoy the spread - MMM
Topics du jour
Investing — when finance gets funky:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/everyones-worst-investing-fears-1476653219
Industry highlight– [not so] fast casual:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/restaurant-chains-get-burned-by-overexpansion-new-rivals-1476649241
Banking — buyouts and bad news bears:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-ultimate-earnings-fighting-championship-1476615601
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/business/wells-fargo-isnt-the-only-firm-that-needs-a-lesson
C&R feature– fashion / retail:
https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/fashion-tech/decoding-amazons-fashion-ambitions
https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/intelligence/anthropologie-super-store
https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/intelligence/whats-next-for-the-american-department-store
Real Estate:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-queens-residential-development-is-fueling-commercial-demand-1474248811
http://www.wsj.com/articles/health-care-reits-back-off-nursing-1476204787
VC / Entrepreneurial:
https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/people/uniqlo-fast-retailing-ceo-tadashi-yanai-management-principles
“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.”
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye