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☆ A Mother-Daughter Team Went to the Bronx With $350,000 for a New Place. Which Option Did They Choose?
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Debra Kamin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Jeanine Edwards always wanted to buy her own place, but as a lifelong New Yorker, she wasn’t sure it was possible. She turned her sights to Riverdale, the leafy Bronx enclave where home prices are less than half of those in Harlem. After years of living in Manhattan, Riverdale seemed a little “too far from the mix,” she said. But Sadie’s school was there, and it suddenly seemed like the best option. Among the homes she considered, all within a five-minute drive of Sadie’s school:

☆ Amazon remains a show-me stock but we're encouraged by some positive Wall Street commentary
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Amazon (AMZN) received several mentions Tuesday from Wall Street analysts covering a range of topics. While including commentary on Alphabet and Meta from the note as a point of reference, we're mostly focusing on Amazon. From a top-down view, Morgan Stanley maintained that Amazon remains "strategically positioned" to take market share in e-commerce and enterprise spend "through/post downturn." From a bottom-up view, the analysts acknowledged that Amazon, along with other large-cap tech names, is finally taking its medicine. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.

☆ We're disappointed by Amazon's terrible results, stock plunge; but sticking with it for now
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Considering all the cross currents and a terrible initial stock reaction, we're going to sit tight on the stock for now. Segment Q3 sales Online Stores: $53.49 billion, up 13% year over year excluding-FX, missed the $54.27 billion expected. Physical Stores, mostly Whole Foods: $4.69 billion, up 10% from last year ex-FX, in line with the $4.71 billion expected. AWS: $20.54 billion, up 28% year over year excluding-FX, and a miss versus the $21.2 billion expected. Advertising Services: $9.55 billion, up 30% year over year excluding-FX, and a slight beat versus the $9.481 billion expected.

☆ Netanyahu appealed to Trump's love of golf and used NYC maps to turn the president against Palestinians, new memoir says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Benjamin Netanyahu described the techniques sued to turn Donald Trump against Palestinians in his new memoir. "It showed the distance from Tel Aviv to the 1967 lines to which the Palestinians demanded we retreat," Netanyahu wrote, per The Guardian. Netanyahu wrote that the two distances "were identical." Per The Guardian, Netanyahu recalled Dermer telling Trump: "Peace with the Emirates is a five-foot putt. At a joint press conference with Trump, Netanyahu praised it as "the deal of the century."

☆ Even as inflation bites, consumers are still turning to Amazon
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A spate of fresh data this week showed consumers are feeling the sting from high inflation. But those figures were not adjusted for inflation, indicating that consumer spending on retail actually fell last month. But while consumers are tempering their discretionary budgets this holiday season, Amazon remains their shopping platform of choice, according to Baird. In a separate note Thursday, Cowen said its shopping survey of Gen Z and Millennials showed Amazon to be their "most preferred" shopping website. An Amazon Prime truck is pictured as it crosses the George Washington Bridge on Interstate Route 95 during Amazon's two-day "Prime Early Access Sale" shopping event for Amazon members in New York, October 11, 2022.

☆ Ron DeSantis thinks Chris Christie 'missed his moment' by skipping a 2012 White House bid, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

DeSantis thinks Chris Christie "missed his moment" in running for the White House in 2016, per WaPo. DeSantis is up for reelection in November and could potentially launch a 2024 campaign of his own. But after mulling over a presidential run that year, Christie eventually declined to challenge Obama and instead opted to run for reelection in 2013. Eberhart told The Post that many individuals in DeSantis' political orbit want him to run for president in 2024. Insider reached out to the DeSantis campaign for comment.

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